Associate Professor at @Columbia.
New York, NY
Joined October 2012
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Carl Vondrick retweeted
Can visuomotor policy learn from video generation alone? We find learning to generate videos is an effective proxy with action-free video data providing critical benefits for generalizing to novel tasks! 🚀
Website: videopolicy.cs.columbia.edu/
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.00795
Carl Vondrick retweeted
🧵 1/3 Many at #CVPR2024 & #ECCV2024 asked what would be next in our workshop series.
We're excited to announce "How to Stand Out in the Crowd?" at #CVPR2025 Nashville - our 4th community-building workshop featuring this incredible speaker lineup!
🔗 sites.google.com/view/stando…
Invited speakers: @sarameghanbeery, @dimadamen @jbhuang0604, @lschmidt3, @SongShuran, @taiyasaki, @lealtaixe, @gulvarol, @cvondrick, and @sainingxie
cc: @CVPR
Carl Vondrick retweeted
I’m hiring PhD students in computer science at Columbia!
Our lab will tackle core challenges in understanding and controlling neural models that interact with language.
for example,
- methods for LLM control
- discoveries of LLM properties
- pretraining for understanding
Carl Vondrick retweeted
📢 I’ll be admitting PhD students to Columbia CS in the heart of NYC 🗽—the most vibrant city in the world! 🌆
If you're passionate about advancing robot learning and envision a future where robots 🤖 are part of our daily lives, apply to join my group: yunzhuli.github.io/
.@YunzhuLiYZ is looking for PhD students interested in robot learning to join his lab. To find out more about him - yunzhuli.github.io/. For info on our #computerscience PhD programs bit.ly/CSPhDprogram. The deadline to apply is December 15.
Carl Vondrick retweeted
Don't forget to apply, deadline is a couple weeks away. IE/OR is a broad field, if you do things with data applied to energy, healthcare, manufacturing, non-profits, transportation, etc.... apply!
Columbia IEOR is hiring an assistant or associate professor, apply here! apply.interfolio.com/157379
Carl Vondrick retweeted
We present🌊AquaBot🤖: a fully autonomous underwater manipulation system powered by visuomotor policies that can continue to improve through self-learning to perform tasks including object grasping, garbage sorting, and rescue retrieval.
aquabot.cs.columbia.edu
more details👇
Carl Vondrick retweeted
Introducing Dr. Robot, a robot self-model which is differentiable from its visual appearance to its control parameters. With it, we can control and plan robot actions through image gradients. Accepted to CoRL 2024 with an oral!
drrobot.cs.columbia.edu/
Carl Vondrick retweeted
Kudos to the Review Feedback Agent team (led by @james_y_zou) and the #ICLR2025 Program Chairs for this great initiative!
For #ICLR2025, we're piloting a feedback agent that provides optional feedback to reviewers. The aim is to help make reviews more constructive and actionable for authors. blog.iclr.cc/2024/10/09/iclr…
Carl Vondrick retweeted
Excited about several innovative ideas we’re trying out around AI/ML conference reviewing.
Yes, we’re fearless!
For #ICLR2025, we're piloting a feedback agent that provides optional feedback to reviewers. The aim is to help make reviews more constructive and actionable for authors. blog.iclr.cc/2024/10/09/iclr…
Carl Vondrick retweeted
"This paper lacks comparisons to baselines and is lacking excitement and novelty" --
The bane of authors trying to make a case of their papers. -- vagueness without evidence
This year the ICLR PC is young and fearless, and trying many new things.
Won't we all love reviews that did not dismiss our papers!
Another one is: Helping reviewers improve their game with an AI assistant
It is not to write the reviews, but to help be more objective and precise.
blog.iclr.cc/2024/10/09/iclr…
For #ICLR2025, we're piloting a feedback agent that provides optional feedback to reviewers. The aim is to help make reviews more constructive and actionable for authors. blog.iclr.cc/2024/10/09/iclr…
Carl Vondrick retweeted
For #ICLR2025, we're piloting a feedback agent that provides optional feedback to reviewers. The aim is to help make reviews more constructive and actionable for authors. blog.iclr.cc/2024/10/09/iclr…
Carl Vondrick retweeted
At #ECCV2024, we presented Minimalist Vision with Freeform Pixels, a new vision paradigm that uses a small number of freeform pixels to solve lightweight vision tasks. We are honored to have received the Best Paper Award!
Check out the project here: cave.cs.columbia.edu/project…
Carl Vondrick retweeted
What do you see in these images?
These are called hybrid images, originally proposed by Aude Oliva et al. They change appearance depending on size or viewing distance, and are just one kind of perceptual illusion that our method, Factorized Diffusion, can make.
Carl Vondrick retweeted
Come check out our poster today at 4:30 at ECCV! Poster #188 ✨💫🇮🇹
Carl Vondrick retweeted
Have you wondered "How Video Meetings Change Your Expression?"
We will be presenting our work at #ECCV2024 @eccvconf tomorrow Oct 1 @ 10:30AM (poster #195). Come say hi!
facet.cs.columbia.edu
Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators @utkarshmall13 @PurvaTendulkar @cvondrick
Carl Vondrick retweeted
Excited to share our new paper on large-angle monocular dynamic novel view synthesis! Given a single RGB video, we propose a method that can imagine what that scene would look like from any other viewpoint.
Website: gcd.cs.columbia.edu/
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.14868
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Carl Vondrick retweeted
📢 ICLR 2025 submissions must have an abstract registered on OpenReview by Sept 27 at 11:5pm AoE. The author list cannot be changed after this time.
All papers are also required to have an author who is registered to review. Register as a reviewer here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Carl Vondrick retweeted
ICLR 2025 is now open for submissions on OpenReview!
Announcing the ICLR 2025 Call for Papers!
Abstract submission: 11:59pm, Sept 27 (AoE)
Submission date: 11:59pm, Oct 1 (AoE)
Reviews released: Nov 12
Author/Reviewer Discussion: Nov 12-26
Author Last Day to Reply: Nov 27
Final Decisions: Jan 22 2025
iclr.cc/Conferences/2025/Cal…