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Mykel J. Kochenderfer

3 papers indexed

arxivcs.RO2026-07-20

Importance Sampling and PCA for Finding Failures in Commercial Autonomous Vehicles

Hailey Warner, Duncan Eddy, Shreya Parjan, Caroline Cahilly, Harrison Delecki, Matthias Kleinstauber, et al.

Methods for discovering rare failures in autonomous systems have so far been demonstrated almost exclusively in simulations with simple, academic driving stacks, leaving open whether they generalize to the more robust planners used in commercial systems. We address this gap by ap…

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arxiveess.SY2026-07-20

Real-Time Flight Test Maneuver Selection with Monte Carlo Tree Search

Nicholas E. Bostock, Helen Pruitt-Kennett, Marc R. Schlichting, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Flight test is shifting toward a data-centric approach in which data contribute to model refinement, reducing reliance on pre-scripted test points. An open problem is how to sequence maneuvers within a sortie to maximize uncertainty reduction under resource limits. We present a r…

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arxivcs.LG2026-06-29

Simplifying Flow Matching Transformations with Low-Rank Mixture Models

Liam A. Kruse, Houjun Liu, Alexandros E. Tzikas, Mansur M. Arief, Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Normalizing flows are powerful generative models that learn an invertible mapping between complex data distributions and simple latent distributions, typically a standard normal density. However, this choice of latent density can impose unnecessary complexity on the learned flow…

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