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agentic learning ai lab
@agentic_ai_lab
AI research lab @nyuniversity led by Mengye Ren @mengyer | Partially run by students | Also find us @agentic-ai-lab.bsky.social




New interview with Dr. Mengye Ren @mengyer (NYU Assistant Professor, and former researcher at Google Brain Toronto working with Prof. Geoffrey Hinton) talking about "shots on goal" to get to AGI. Very interesting takes if you have the time. youtu.be/W5I-B-kxdjo?si…

What is a good latent space for world modeling and planning? 🤔 Inspired by the perceptual straightening hypothesis in human vision, we introduce temporal straightening to improve representation learning for latent planning. 📑: agenticlearning.ai/temporal-strai…


Do stronger LLMs make better verifiers? Not necessarily when grading themselves. New work led by Courant PhD student Jack Lu (@Jacklu_me) and CDS Asst Prof Mengye Ren (@mengyer) shows that cross-family verification outperforms self-verification. nyudatascience.medium.com/study-reveals-…



Research from CDS Asst Prof @mengyer and Courant PhD student @choang333 shows how the Midway Network learns object recognition and motion jointly from raw video, using motion latents and a gating unit to model real dynamics. nyudatascience.medium.com/watching-the-w…



CDS Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Mengye Ren (@mengyer) and co-author Frank Wu introduce ARQ, a new learning algorithm that skips backpropagation in favor of a more biologically plausible and computationally efficient method. nyudatascience.medium.com/ditching-backp…






Wondering how to get the most out of LLM test-time verification? New study: “When Does Verification Pay Off? A Closer Look at LLMs as Solution Verifiers". 🔍 37 models, 9 datasets 🔥 Self vs intra-family vs cross-family verification Result: verify across families! 🧵👇

ICL is powerful, but only if LLMs actually understand their contexts. Let’s optimize the KV-cache itself for few-shot adaptation! Introducing Context Tuning: 📎 Initialize prefixes from examples ⚙️ Optimize them via gradient descent 🚀 Unlock strong, efficient adaptation 🧵👇





How can we leverage naturalistic videos for visual SSL? Naturalistic, i.e. uncurated, videos are abundant and can emulate the egocentric perspective. Our paper at ICLR 2025, PooDLe🐩, proposes a new SSL method to address the challenges of learning from naturalistic videos. 🧵

