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Research lab led by @y_m_asano at @utn_nuremberg. We conduct fundamental AI research and develop core technology for future Foundation Models.
Nuremberg
Joined July 2024
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FunAI retweeted
I am incredibly honoured to receive the ECVA/ @eccvconf Young Researcher Award. ✨🎉I cannot quite believe it, but what I do know is, that this is all thanks to my amazing collaborators, mentors and students and friends. Thank you! You all put the Fun in Fundamental AI. It’s an adventure to be in this field, in this time.
FunAI retweeted
My opposing take: text will get you only so far (maybe far enough for many applications and commercial value), but learning from unlabeled data, in particular videos, will (with the right method/architecture) be the best: huge quantities, physics, geometry, occlusions etc. but: Getting there will take proper research, no winning recipe there just yet
Replying to @gabriberton
3. When asked about DINO (and SSL in general):
"Text is there so why not use it? [...] I think it's an intellectually interesting concept and we should be able to learn good representations without text and it's nice that they got this far, but (not using text) it's unnecessarily making it hard" [3/3]
FunAI retweeted
[PhD opening🎉] Part of the Bavarian Foundation Model initiative is to also develop and build more radical ideas (besides catching up). Within this, I'm stoked to be involved in an exciting project on tokenizer-free FoMos with @vjhofmann 👇
📢 We're hiring a PhD student in tokenizer-free foundation models!
The position will have a double affiliation with @LMU_Muenchen and @utn_nuremberg, co-supervised by @y_m_asano and me.
Come work with us in Munich and Nuremberg!
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Happening Now! Come to VGI workshop @CVPR in Room 703 to listen to the excellent keynote speakers: Robert Geirhos @GoogleDeepMind; @AdtRaghunathan @CSDatCMU; @mattdeitke @Meta; @y_m_asano @funailab; @alexgkendall @wayve_ai; Andrea Vedaldi; Alexei Efros; Kristen Grauman @CVPRConf
Checkout our @CVPR VGI workshop on 3rd Jun 2026 cvpr2026-vgi-workshop.limitl… in Room 703, Led by @HirokatuKataoka with Yoshihiro Fukuhara, @YonglongT, @elliottszwu, Ryousuke Yamada, @jianyuan_wang, Kohsuke Ide, @xianzhengoxford, @Koichi_N_, @yimiche @Oxford_VGG! @CVPRConf #CVPR2026!!
FunAI retweeted
Looking forward to speaking here at ~11:30 room 703. Spoiler slide below 👇
Checkout our @CVPR VGI workshop on 3rd Jun 2026 cvpr2026-vgi-workshop.limitl… in Room 703, Led by @HirokatuKataoka with Yoshihiro Fukuhara, @YonglongT, @elliottszwu, Ryousuke Yamada, @jianyuan_wang, Kohsuke Ide, @xianzhengoxford, @Koichi_N_, @yimiche @Oxford_VGG! @CVPRConf #CVPR2026!!
Come join us!
🎉[openings] I’m hiring postdoctoral researchers to join our @FunAILab at UTN through the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (@AvHStiftung), via the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme.
As a Henriette Herz Scout, I can nominate outstanding international researchers for this fellowship route. I’m especially keen to hear from candidates working on multimodal learning, video and image pretraining, and post-training.
Fellows would be hosted in our lab at UTN and work closely with us on these topics.
Key requirements:
* finished your doctoral studies less than 4 years ago or will finish in the next 6 months
* did not live/work in Germany in the last 10 years
* applications from female, trans* and/or non-binary candidates are highly encouraged!
Interested? Please send a short note with your CV, PhD year, current affiliation, 2–3 key publications, and a few lines on how your work connects.
Please share! 🔀
Sakana means fish in Japanese.
Today we visited Japan's hottest AI startup @SakanaAILabs🎏🇯🇵!
We met their research scientists and discussed the implications and impact of some their works like "The AI scientist" and "Continous Thought Machines".
We presented our @FunAILab works, "Better Language Models Exhibit Higher Visual Alignment" and "Data Repetition Beats Data Scaling in Long-CoT Supervised Fine-Tuning". Got lots of cool questions and discussions! Thanks, Masanori Suganuma, @_yutaroyamada, @ciaran_regan_
Today we had a joint workshop!
We got to know each other's research directions and make some personal connections!
@AIST_EN, @TUS_PR_en, @FragileGoodwill, @noagarciad
Start of our workshop, organised by our postdoc fellow @FragileGoodwill!
Today we'll be getting to know each other's research directions and make some personal connections!
@AIST_EN, @TUS_PR_en, and @noagarciad and more: research-p.com/event/2690
'cc @HirokatuKataoka
The next two weeks our lab will be in.. Japan!!
We'll visit @AIST_EN, @SakanaAILabs, @WbyT_Tech, @SonyAI_global , @jouhouken (NII), @TUS_PR_en and @RIKEN_JP.
We'll report what we learn, so come with us on this journey!
FunAI retweeted
[new CVPR'26 paper]
🔄 SSL works great when you have tons of data.
But in 3D… we don’t.
High-quality 3D scans are expensive, slow, and hard to scale. So what if we could pretrain 3D models without any real 3D scans? 1/
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Group picture of our @ELLISforEurope @Ellis_Amsterdam Foundation Model PhD school! 👏 🎉 @CSProfKGD @cgmsnoek @robrombach @FrankRHutter @YGandelsman @eliricci_ @nuriaoliver @sainingxie @PascalMettes, @KatiaShutova Hinrich Schütze, Robert Geirhos
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Spending the day in Nuremberg with @y_m_asano and his group ❤️
Missing the bus is not going to deter us, the talk must go on! 🤓
My slide deck is feature complete. Finally ready for my European speaking tour 🇪🇺
Plan to record this talk too, once back in my #Toronto home studio.