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Building AI that learns by interacting with the world. Associate Professor @ MIT, leading the Scene Representation Group (scenerepresentations.org).
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Thrilled to introduce Mirror, our first "learning-from-experience" project! Assume you had a video generative model that, no matter your situation, could always generate video of what it would look like to solve a task. How can you put that plan into action? Clearly, you need to learn some video-to-action mapping - but where do you get the data for that? It turns out you can collect that data in an amazingly sample-efficient way by *incrementally following the video planner*! (1/n)
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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Can you reconstruct the shape of a human vocal tract just from hearing their voice? Crazily, the answer is yes!! Eric and Jin Woo built a "differentiable renderer" for the human voice! It reproduces well-known properties of human phonetics, such as the distribution of formants :) (1/n)
Eric Ming Chen @ericmchen1 6d
NeurIPS 2026 Spotlight! 🌟 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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For the professors / lab leads, the killer feature of DeckWerk is the "headless server" mode. I run it on our lab server. Me and all my students collaborate on our presentations in real-time *directly on the server*.

As opposed to Google Slides, DeckWerk has stellar video support, native agent support (even on the headless server!), latex support, etc. In fact, DeckWerk's web app has the same exact features as the desktop app!

There is even tailscale-ID based access control, which means that you can keep presentations private or share them with other folks in the lab easily. The server has no open ports to the internet.

Besides the real-time collaboration, I never have to bug students for slides anymore - they're all right there on the server! And I share *my own* presentations with my students, so they can always build on top of my slides as well.

youtu.be/qBjTRFZvtbA?t=…
www.youtube.com DeckWerk: A multi-platform, open-source slide editor I wrote DeckWerk with the following goals:1. A slide editor that r...
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New release of DeckWerk, the open-source, multi-platform, agent-enabled slide editor! Lots of improvements: Better UI, simplified agent support, better headless mode (=local Google Slides), support for code blocks, more shapes, more animations, better keynote import, ...
Download & install binary here:
deckwerk.org/#install
deckwerk.org DeckWerk An opinionated slide editor for talks made of video. Linux first. Agents welcome. Open source.
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I have recently been noticing that "training LLMs is easy" in the sense that lots of labs have been successful at doing it with various levels of cross-pollination.

I believe that a new time will soon come where the number of companies that can train their own in-house model from scratch is going to skyrocket.

Lots of interesting opportunities here!
Sakana AI Verified account @SakanaAILabs Oct 26
本日のSakana AIのシンポジウムは、おかげさまで満員となりました。足を運んでくださった皆さま、本当にありがとうございました!🐟

ユルゲン・シュミットフーバー教授の基調講演や対談を含め、イベントの模様は後日あらためてご報告します。

当日は CEO の David Ha から、AI主権にとって重要となる Sakana AIの取り組みの「3つの柱」についてお話ししました。

・Pre-training:次世代の事前学習モデルの開発にAIエージェントを活用する
・Post-training:日本語やビジネスシーンにLLMを適応させる事後学習技術(Sakana Namazu)
・Orchestration:最先端の性能を、単一のAIモデルに依存せずに実現するオーケストレーション技術(Sakana Fugu)

続いてチーフサイエンティストの秋葉拓哉から、事前学習の取り組みである「Sakana Sawara(仮称)」プロジェクトと、その意義についてお話ししました。

Sakana AIはこれまで、LLMを最大限に活用する「エージェントの層」での技術革新を強みの一つとしてきました。しかしいま、「モデルの層」が再び重要になっています。オープンモデルと最先端モデルとの差は縮まり、モデルを作るコストは下がり、さらに強化学習によって自社のタスクやツールに合わせて特化させることもできる。こうした状況を踏まえ、モデル作りに改めて取り組むべき時期が来たと考えています。

事前学習のボトルネックは、相変わらず計算機の量にあります。その限られた計算資源をどこに投じるか。モデル開発の進展は、どんな実験をどの順で行い、どのアイデアを捨てるかという判断の精度に大きく左右されるようになりました。秋葉からは、こうした開発を、AIの力も駆使しながら少数精鋭のチームで手がけていくアプローチについてお話ししました。

この発表は、日経新聞でも取り上げていただきました。
nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO… 🐟
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