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Eric Ming Chen

@ericmchen1

PhD student at @MIT
@Cornell 2024
Graphics, vision
New York, NY echen01.github.io Joined April 2019
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Eric Ming Chen @ericmchen1
My friends often ask why I got into speech. Well I think there's a missing perspective in studying language as a control problem.

We now often equate language modeling to (artificial) intelligence, but learning to speak is also an act of embodied intelligence.
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NeurIPS 2026 Spotlight! 馃専 Physics simulators like MuJoCo MJX are changing robotics. But for studying the sensorimotor learning of speech, there's no equivalent. We built diffTLM, a differentiable vocal tract simulator, to help close that gap. (1/6)
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Eric Ming Chen @ericmchen1
NeurIPS 2026 Spotlight! 馃専 Physics simulators like MuJoCo MJX are changing robotics. But for studying the sensorimotor learning of speech, there's no equivalent. We built diffTLM, a differentiable vocal tract simulator, to help close that gap. (1/6)
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This work wouldn't have been possible without support from the @AMD University Program thanks to @secunit64. Our video planner was trained on as many as 32 AMD MI350X GPUs!!

Our feedback has led to FlexAttention speed ups that have already been merged into the @PyTorch nightly!
Eric Ming Chen @ericmchen1 Oct 20
If video models scale like LLMs, they'll soon generate a perfect video plan for any embodied task. Do we need anything else? Introducing Mirror, which learns to follow these plans just by practicing, and even crafts an iron pickaxe in Minecraft w/o rewards or action labels! (1/n)
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If video models scale like LLMs, they'll soon generate a perfect video plan for any embodied task. Do we need anything else? Introducing Mirror, which learns to follow these plans just by practicing, and even crafts an iron pickaxe in Minecraft w/o rewards or action labels! (1/n)
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