Reading List

Research can be neither truly impactful nor applicable in a vacuum. This is my "reading list"... papers I have read, am reading, or intend to read in the near future.

For a subset of those papers I have read, I've written a short blog-style post summarizing my thoughts on the paper. These posts, when they exist, are always linked underneath the title of the paper itself. Such posts are likely, but not guaranteed, to include thoughts about the paper's core contributions, potential for future research or applications, necessary considerations, and directions for future work.

Additionally, the following resources are excellent for foundational material.

Convex Optimization

Underactuated Robotics

Visual Navigation

Foundations of Computer Vision

Certifiable algorithms

Rotation search with outliers

A Quaternion-based Certifiably Optimal Solution to the Wahba Problem with Outliers

Robust perception with outliers

Certifiably Robust Geometric Perception with Outliers

Graduated non-convexity for spatial perception

Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception

Point cloud registration

Fast and Certifiable Point Cloud Registration

Object tracking

A Certifiable Algorithm for Simultaneous Shape Estimation and Object Tracking

Rotation averaging

Global Optimality by Surfing SO(p)^n

Estimation over the special Euclidean group

A Certifiably Correct Algorithm for Synchronization over the Special Euclidean Group

Factor graph optimization

Certifiable Estimation with Factor Graphs

Robust estimation and FGO

Implementing Robust M-Estimators with Certifiable Factor Graph Optimization

Real-time odometry

On-Manifold Preintegration for Real-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry

Convex optimization

Interior point method for QPs

Implicit Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods for Quadratic Programming

Learning and control

Neural ODEs

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Diffusion policy

Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion

Lyapunov-stable neural policies

Lyapunov-Stable Neural-Network Control

Closed-form diffusion for imitation learning

Training-Free Imitation Learning with Closed-Form Diffusion Policies

Activation LQR for LLM steering

Local Linearity of LLMs Enables Activation Steering via Model-Based Linear Optimal Control

Learned discrete sampler

A Discrete Neural Sampler via Locally Equivariant Networks

Hardware for diffusion

An Efficient Probabilistic Hardware Architecture for Diffusion-Like Models

Energy-Efficient Codon Optimization on Thermodynamic Hardware

Evaluation without generation

Non-Generative Assessment of Harmful Model Specialization with Applications to CSAM

Generalization in diffusion

Selective Underfitting in Diffusion Models

Liquid time-constant networks

Liquid Time-Constant Networks

Motion planning

Graphs of convex sets

Shortest Paths in Graphs of Convex Sets

Regions of attraction for hybrid limit cycles

Regions of Attraction for Hybrid Limit Cycles of Walking Robots

Trajectory optimization solver

A Differentiable Solver for Trajectory Optimization with Conic and Complementarity Constraints

Sum-of-squares programming for stability

Invariant Funnels around Trajectories using Sum-of-Squares Programming

Controls Applications of Sum-of-Squares Programming

Convex conjunction avoidance

Convex Maneuver Planning for Spacecraft Collision Avoidance

Differentiable physics

Hydroelastic contact

A Pressure Field Model for Fast, Robust Approximation of Net Contact Force and Moment between Nominally Rigid Objects

Velocity Level Approximation of Pressure Field Contact Patches

Swimming robots

Realizing Robotic Swimming with Unified Fluid-Robot Multiphysics