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Assistant Professor in Computer Science at UofT.
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Young Assistant Prof at his first faculty meeting before he learned that he is not at a hire-to-tenure institution.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The global transformer shortage is a very serious issue. Please don't be wasteful! To do our part, the new @vectorinstitute.ai policy is to use at most 3 heads per multi-head attention layer.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Do you want to get the most out of your samples, but increasing the update steps just destabilizes RL training? Our #ICLR2025 spotlight 🎉 paper shows that using the values of unseen actions causes instability in continuous state-action domains and how to combat this problem with learned models!

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

In robot learning research with foundation models, we adapt models that have initially been trained with language modeling and content creation in mind. I wonder what similarly expensive models would look like if the target use case was robotics, to begin with?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to be starting the new year with a big change in life. After 25 years of loyalty, I'll be switching away from bash. Still debating how big the switch will be and deciding between zsh and fish.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, ready for some thinking and reading time during the holidays!! Got a list of research questions and books critiquing my field loaded up and ready to go.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

While OpenAI folks say that they are running out of sufficiently difficult benchmarks, my robots still can't clean up my kitchen.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

For simulation to become the future of data, data has to become the future of simulation.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Ending #NeurIPS2024 on a high note. Bumped into Ted Chiang in a coffee shop.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Check out the exciting papers led by my students Umangi Jain and Ziyi Wu in this morning's #NeurIPS2024 poster session. Their work is impressive! 1/🧵

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to attending #NeurIPS2024 next week. I will be looking for postdoctoral researchers in Computer Vision, AI, and Robotics. Interested in joining? Feel free to reach out for a chat during the conference.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

I'm recruiting graduate students for Fall 2025 to work at the intersection of Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Robotics. If you are interested in building a controllable organic simulation engine to enable safe robot learning, consider applying to UofT's CS PhD program. 1/n

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Hello Bluesky. 👋

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments