User profiles for Jean Mercat

Jean Mercat

Research scientist at Toyota Research Institute
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Cited by 432

Multi-head attention for multi-modal joint vehicle motion forecasting

J Mercat, T Gilles, N El Zoghby… - … on Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel vehicle motion forecasting method based on multi-head
attention. It produces joint forecasts for all vehicles on a road scene as sequences of multi-modal …

Kinematic single vehicle trajectory prediction baselines and applications with the NGSIM dataset

J Mercat, NE Zoghby, G Sandou, D Beauvois… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
In the recent vehicle trajectory prediction literature, the most common baselines are briefly
introduced without the necessary information to reproduce it. In this article we produce …

Social attention for autonomous decision-making in dense traffic

E Leurent, J Mercat - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.12250, 2019 - arxiv.org
We study the design of learning architectures for behavioural planning in a dense traffic setting.
Such architectures should deal with a varying number of nearby vehicles, be invariant to …

Control-aware prediction objectives for autonomous driving

R McAllister, B Wulfe, J Mercat, L Ellis… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicle software is typically structured as a modular pipeline of individual
components (eg, perception, prediction, and planning) to help separate concerns into …

Language models scale reliably with over-training and on downstream tasks

…, S Gururangan, M Wortsman, R Shao, J Mercat… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Scaling laws are useful guides for developing language models, but there are still gaps between
current scaling studies and how language models are ultimately trained and evaluated. …

Droid: A large-scale in-the-wild robot manipulation dataset

…, K Black, C Chi, KB Hatch, S Lin, J Lu, J Mercat… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The creation of large, diverse, high-quality robot manipulation datasets is an important
stepping stone on the path toward more capable and robust robotic manipulation policies. …

Rap: Risk-aware prediction for robust planning

H Nishimura, J Mercat, B Wulfe… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Robust planning in interactive scenarios requires predicting the uncertain future to make risk-aware
decisions. Unfortunately, due to long-tail safety-critical events, the risk is often under-…

Residual q-learning: Offline and online policy customization without value

C Li, C Tang, H Nishimura, J Mercat… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Imitation Learning (IL) is a widely used framework for learning imitative behavior from
demonstrations. It is especially appealing for solving complex real-world tasks where handcrafting …

Linearizing Large Language Models

J Mercat, I Vasiljevic, S Keh, K Arora, A Dave… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Linear transformers have emerged as a subquadratic-time alternative to softmax attention
and have garnered significant interest due to their fixed-size recurrent state that lowers …

Dynamics-aware comparison of learned reward functions

B Wulfe, A Balakrishna, L Ellis, J Mercat… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The ability to learn reward functions plays an important role in enabling the deployment of
intelligent agents in the real world. However, comparing reward functions, for example as a …