Tianmin Shu

Modeling and Inferring Human Intents and Latent Functional Objects for Trajectory Prediction

2016 · arXiv (Cornell University)

This paper is about detecting functional objects and inferring human intentions in surveillance videos of public spaces. People in the videos are expected to intentionally take shortest paths toward functional objects subject to obstacles, where …

Incorporating Rich Social Interactions Into MDPs

2022 · 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Much of what we do as humans is engage socially with other agents, a skill that robots must also eventually possess. We demonstrate that a rich theory of social interactions originating from microsociology can be …

Neural Amortized Inference for Nested Multi-agent Reasoning

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Multi-agent interactions, such as communication, teaching, and bluffing, often rely on higher-order social inference, i.e., understanding how others infer oneself. Such intricate reasoning can be effectively modeled through nested multi-agent reasoning. Nonetheless, the computational complexity …