Hi everyone,

This Wednesday at 3pm in CB11.09.215, Kosta will be presenting DiMSam: Diffusion Models as Samplers for Task and Motion Planning under Partial Observability by Xiaolin Fang, Caelan Reed Garrett, Clemens Eppner, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, and Dieter Fox.

After last week's meeting, a few of us were talking about how best to move on with CDMRG now we're down to 6 regular presenters. Preparing a presentation every 6 weeks could take more time than many people have. With that in mind, I'd like to have a brief chat about this with everyone this week (maybe just after Kosta's talk?). A couple of ideas could be:

Reduce meetings to every other week
Alternate between having a presenter and just reading a journal
Some kind of compromise between the two — perhaps everyone alternates between preparing a full presentation, and something with less time commitment e.g. choosing a paper for everyone to read through in more detail together
Try and arrange guest speakers
Continue as is

Please let me know if you have any other thoughts or ideas, and please generally have a think before Wednesday.

Afterwards, we'll read through T-RO, Volume 40 (2024) papers 176 — 200. That's page 8 if you view 25 papers per page at this link: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.ezproxy.lib.uts.edu.au/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=10365208&punumber=8860&sortType=vol-only-seq&pageNumber=8

Any papers we're interested in hearing more about will be added to the stack: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12qhjIVTrK82byEq15JJs00aQPkuj66FHER_sdyTbBFo/edit?gid=0#gid=0

The next presenters after this will be:
- 26 February: Ed
- 05 March: Nick

See you all there!

Ed Bray (he/him/his)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Robotics Institute

School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

University of Technology Sydney

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