Excited to share our latest work, Vision-Language Frontier Maps – a SOTA approach for semantic navigation in robotics. VLFM enables robots to navigate and find objects in novel environments using vision-language foundation models, zero-shot! Accepted to #ICRA2024! 🧵

🎉🎉 Congratulations Matthew Gombolay !!!! It was a foregone conclusion, but glad to see it’s official 😁

clean-rl-mlx: A nice, minimal implementation of PPO for CartPole in MLX (based on CleanRL from Costa Huang). Code: github.com/andrew-silva/c… Looks like a great way to learn RL + MLX. Single file just 300 lines, with a side-by-side PyTorch implementation.

Congratulations to Dr. Erin Botti from CORE Robotics Lab on her successful PhD defense yesterday on "Improving Learning from Demonstration in Real-World Scenarios!" Check out her award-winning papers here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/98896… drive.google.com/file/d/1H2ZkY_…

In our latest work, we introduce personalized residuals for efficient personalization of T2I diffusion models and localized attention-guided sampling that dynamically blends the learned concept into new contexts. #CVPR2024 cusuh.github.io/personalized-r…

I really enjoyed reading Anthropic’s recent post on interpretability, so I wrote a bit about what it is, what it shows, and what I’m excited to see next: andrew-silva.github.io/posts/scaling_… And the original work: transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-m…

Thanks for sharing, Awni Hannun !

I'll be presenting our work tomorrow (6/19) 5-630pm in Arch 4A-E (poster #329)! #CVPR2024

Congrats to Dr. Sean Ye and Dr. Pradyumna Tambwekar on defending their PhDs on "Trajectory Modeling using Generative Approaches for Scheduling, Planning, and Multi-Agent Systems" and "Human-Centered Specification and Explanation for Mixed-Initiative Interactions", respectively!🎉

Absolutely thrilled to share that I'll be joining @PurdueUniversity as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science (Purdue Computer Science ) in Fall 2025. Grateful to everyone who has been part of and supported me through this journey.

Today is my last day at Samsung Research America. I’m so grateful for the talented colleagues, exciting projects, and incredible mentorship from Yen-Chang Hsu that shaped the start of my career. Thank you, SRA, for this rewarding chapter—excited for what’s next!

Join us at EMNLP 2025 for: "Tailoring AI: Exploring Active and Passive LLM Personalization" 🎯🧠 To answer, when should LLMs personalize? What role do users play in LLM-personalization? 📅 Deadline Aug. 1 📝 Details in thread 🧵👇 #EMNLP2025 #LLM #AI #personalization 1/5

Our submission site is now live! Direct submissions for PALS 2025 can be made here: openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP… See our website for the call for papers and information about relevant topics: pals-nlp-workshop.github.io #EMNLP25 EMNLP 2025

Enjoyed this paper and the central idea, so I wrote a quick summary with some thoughts on future work: andrew-silva.github.io/posts/deepmind… Thanks for the great work Yanming Wan Jiaxing Wu Marwa Abdulhai Lior Shani Natasha Jaques

📣 We are excited to present our work on inferring user preferences from writing samples at ICML Conference Poster Session 3 (Wed. 11:00AM - 1:30PM)! Come by to ✋ chat with us, 📄 learn about our method, and 💻 hear about our new interactive benchmark (🔗s below)!

3 days remaining for direct submissions to PALS 2025! Share your findings or works in progress on LLM personalization here: openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP… See our website for the call for papers and information about relevant topics: pals-nlp-workshop.github.io #EMNLP25 EMNLP 2025

We’re now accepting ARR commitments for PALS 2025! If your ARR-reviewed paper fits with our themes on LLM personalization, submit by September 4: openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP… See the full call for papers and topic details on our website: pals-nlp-workshop.github.io #EMNLP25 EMNLP 2025

Today marks my first day (back) at Apple's MLR group, where I am starting as a research scientist exploring personalization and LLMs! I'm incredibly grateful for my time with TRI (and I can't wait to share that work once it's ready!), and so excited to get started at Apple!