Jimmy (Tsung-Yen) Yang
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Jimmy (Tsung-Yen) Yang
@JimmyTYYang1
Researcher at @Waymo Research; ML/Embodied AI; PhD @Princeton ECE

My first PhD paper is out! 🎓 "What Drives Success in Physical Planning with Joint-Embedding Predictive World Models?" tl:dr: JEPA-WMs for robotics: learn dynamics on top of visual encoders, optimize actions towards goal 👇 w/ @JimmyTYYang1, Jean Ponce, @AdrienBardes, @ylecun

Introducing DexWM: Dexterous Manipulation World Model tl;dr: train on human videos; fine-grained actions; hand-consistency loss; DexWM+MPC -> zero-shot dexterous manipulation w/ @_amirbar, @DavidJFan, @JimmyTYYang1, @GaoyueZhou, P. Krishnamurthy, M. Rabbat, F. Khorrami, @ylecun


FAIR researchers (@AIatMeta) presented SegmentAnything and our robotics work at the White House correspondents’ weekend. Llama3 + Sim2Real skills (trained with @ai_habitat) = a robot assistant





Washingtonians delved into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) at the Washington AI Network’s inaugural weekend TGAIFriday Lunch for White House correspondents. trib.al/FwHF9Um


When you add stuff like this when it gets it wrong you’re just doing a clever hans thing. The way to see that is to try adding the same thing when it gets it right.





Announcing Habitat 3.0, simulating humanoid avatars and robots collaborating! - Humanoid sim: diverse skinned avatars - Human-in-the-loop control: mouse/keyboard or VR - Tasks: social navigation and rearrangement Over 1,000 steps per second on 1 GPU for large-scale learning!

Habitat stable version v0.2.5 released! -- 🤖 Hardware bridge for BD Spot -- 📷 Improved PBR rendering for better synthetic scene visuals -- 🤗 ai-habitat on HuggingFace -- 🏠 Habitat Synthetic Scenes Dataset (HSSD) and more... github.com/facebookresear… github.com/facebookresear…


Real Superconductors Might Be Here - we won’t know for sure for a couple of years - Wikipedia page is a litany of hoaxes - current claim is full on room temperature and pressure full superconductor manufactured from lead. - superconducting because of its structure - if true would be another Industrial Revolution Super annoying that you can’t really know whether it’s real for a loong time. But it’s in Korea and they have all the heavy industry that can deploy quickly. arxiv.org/pdf/2307.12008…


The future of robot butlers starts with mobile manipulation. We’re announcing the NeurIPS 2023 Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge! - Full robot stack ✅ - Parallel sim and real evaluation ✅ - No robot required ✅👀 aihabitat.org/challenge/2023…

We’ll also be showcasing a handful of demos on the showfloor. We brought Spotty to demo some of our exciting recent work towards general-purpose embodied AI agents. More on this research ➡️ bit.ly/3N8LeVg 5/6



