Nicolas DUFOUR

@nico_dufour

PostDoc at Kyutai and UC Berkeley

Paris, France nicolas-dufour.github.io Joined April 2010

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Nicolas DUFOUR @nico_dufour Oct 30

Neural Thickets (@yule_gan @phillip_isola): add random noise to an LLM's weights, keep the best copies, let them vote. Reasoning jumps, no training.
Why does it work? It's sampling in disguise. Swap noise on billions of weights for one random vector on the logits: same gains 🧵

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Nicolas DUFOUR @nico_dufour Oct 22

Instead of relying on pretrained video latent space we study which tradeoff of spatial and temporal resolution is optimal for real time WM.

We open source all our models and training recipes so you can easily adapt it for your needs!

kyutai Verified account @kyutai_labs Oct 22

Many world models borrow their video autoencoder from text-to-video generators, and with it, a noticeable lag on every action.

Today we release CADRE, open CAusal Diffusion REpresentation autoencoders that let real-time world models react fast, on a single GPU 🧵

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Nicolas DUFOUR @nico_dufour Oct 2

Checkout our latest work led by the great @RamaAdrien on representation alignment between unpaired modalities!

You can align your autoencoder latent structure to the structure of a text model!

kyutai Verified account @kyutai_labs Oct 2

Many generative models work in an autoencoder's latent space; They train faster and generate better when this space is well organized.
One way to organize it is distilling a pretrained model into it. But how can it work when the two spaces have different structures?

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Nicolas DUFOUR @nico_dufour Sep 10

Very funny how every workshop was about moving away from explicit 3D but the best paper awards look like SIGGRAPH.

More and more people not doing 3D are migrating away from vision conferences to learning conferences.

A bit sad but given the signal CVPR/ECCV/ICCV gives....

European Conference on Computer Vision #ECCV2026 @eccvconf Sep 10

#ECCV2026 best paper awards

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Nicolas DUFOUR @nico_dufour Sep 8

I made this conference tool over the weekend to try and organize workshops and help you find talks

kyutai Verified account @kyutai_labs Sep 8

Conference workshop programmes are spread across dozens of websites. Our postdoc @nico_dufour made a webapp to bring all #ECCV2026 workshops together, with search by topic, paper title or speaker.
kyutai.org/eccv_2026_work…

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