Luca Scimeca

AI Research Scientist & Founder

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Research write-ups, papers explained, and the occasional piece of news.

20 Jun 2024 · NeurIPS 2024 Unlocking the Power of Diffusion Models: A Dive into Relative Trajectory Balance

Diffusion models are excellent at generating data. Getting them to also respect a constraint means sampling from an intractable posterior — Relative Trajectory Ba...

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31 Jul 2023 · ICLR 2022 Shortcut Learning in Deep Neural Networks: which cues will your model choose to learn?

Deep networks lean on whatever feature is easiest to fit — recognising ducks by the lake behind them. We build a test that exposes which cues a model prefers, exp...

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11 Jul 2022 · PalermoLive Da Palermo ad Harvard e la ricerca sul cancro: la storia di Luca Scimeca

An article by Joey Borruso telling the story of my journey — starting in Sicily, Italy, and ending up doing cancer research at Harvard.

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05 Sep 2021 · University of Cambridge Introducing RoboPatient — a soft robotics approach to training doctors

Cambridge researchers are designing the healthcare robotics of the future by investigating a robot-assisted approach to training doctors in medical examinations.

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14 Aug 2020 · PLOS ONE Gaussian process inference modelling of dynamic robot control for expressive piano playing

A robot that can autonomously learn to play piano by mimicking the dynamics of different human playing styles.

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29 Jul 2020 · Autonomous Robots Structuring of tactile sensory information for category formation in robotics palpation

Robotics and medicine — applying machine learning and tactile sensing to the autonomous detection of abnormal lumps in soft bodies.

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15 May 2020 · IEEE RoboSoft 2020 Efficient Bayesian exploration for soft morphology-action co-optimization

A mathematical framework for the active exploration of robot control and morphology, to aid in tactile discrimination tasks.

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