Karl D.D. Willis

Senior Research Manager, Autodesk AI Lab

[evan @evan__casey]

New #ICCV2025 paper: ✨ Aligning Constraint Generation with Design Intent in Parametric CAD ⚙️

We apply post-training techniques to the task of generating engineering sketch constraints found in parametric CAD, using a constraint solver for verifiable rewards.

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

The ICML Poster session is Thu 27 Jul 2023 at 10:30 a.m. HST — noon HST: https://t.co/zS1mfx3365

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

At #ICML this week @SamXu03799145 will present our latest work that generates solid CAD models in a controllable manner. Check out the tweet below for details!

[Sam 𝕏u @SamXu03799145]

In our latest #ICML2023 paper "Hierarchical Neural Coding for Controllable CAD Model Generation" https://t.co/qQcJt91zgm, we learn the design intent from different CAD hierarchies in a self-supervised manner, and demonstrate its application on multiple tasks e.g. autocomplete.

[CDFAM @Design_for_AM]

Latest interview in the CDFAM speaker series with @KarlDD on his AI research at Autodesk. https://t.co/6xmbtdA0RO
Karl will be speaking more about his work at the Autodesk Research AI Lab at CDFAM NYC June 14-15.
Register to attend, today (May 15th) is th…https://t.co/KkyLgw3ONW

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

Interested in an internship at Autodesk Research? We have three ML roles for Summer 2023 in SF and Toronto.

Data Acquisition and ML Research
https://t.co/mJ76R8E2Fh

Large Language Models
https://t.co/DXHPTlCNUM

Machine Learning Research
https://t.co/jJc1YEAK6U

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

An automated way to assemble thousands of objects: A new algorithm for automatic assembly of products is accurate, efficient, and generalizable to a wide range of complex real-world assemblies. https://t.co/imi4XPC2sn

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

If you are attending SIGGRAPH Asia check out our talk during the “Computer-Aided Design” session: Wed Dec 7, 17:00-18:30 KST. I'll be there and happy to meet with anyone!

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

Our latest collaboration with @MIT_CSAIL and @TAMU led by @YunshengTian will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia today!

We want to make it easier to assemble objects AND to disassemble them for end-of-life recycling and part reuse.

[AK @_akhaliq]

Assemble Them All: Physics-Based Planning for Generalizable Assembly by Disassembly
abs: https://t.co/L6VDYWlCzC
project page: https://t.co/f57jmB23v1

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

For a nice overview of our work, check out this article from MIT: https://t.co/ACoAH26P83

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

If you are at #NeurIPS2022 this week, check out some of the work the Autodesk AI Lab team has been doing on robustness, evaluating graph generative models, and communicating natural programs!

[Autodesk Research @ADSKResearch]

Autodesk Research AI Lab has 3 papers accepted at #NeurIPS2022!
✅ MaskTune: Mitigating Spurious Correlations.. https://t.co/UGePk3YSJ3
✅ Evaluating Graph Generative Models.. https://t.co/tiUAkDyfGn
✅ Communicating Natural Programs to Humans & Machines https://t.co/H3xo4l4vTP

[Autodesk Research @ADSKResearch]

AI-powered design tools are essential to Autodesk’s future offerings, and the work being published by the AI Lab at top-tier AI conferences gives us a glimpse into the future of design.
https://t.co/QkPeB9v2vI

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

❤️ Fluorescent computer stripe @chengXX

[evanthebouncy @evanthebouncy]

want to get into program synthesis but don't know how to started? I wrote a minimalist intro to modern program synthesis that can help you -- from problem formulation to generating code by fine-tuning llm on huggingface.

https://t.co/tzPHmzoQh3

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

Large language model failure mode of the month: Mode collapse to all emoji output all the time. Not helpful 🤷‍♂️😫🤬 @evanthebouncy

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

Collage is a whole lot of fun! Chatting to @_joelsimon and @ev_ancasey was even more so. Super cool/smart team making progress on the grand challenge of how we interact with AI to create.

[Artbreeder @Artbreeder]

We’re hard at work on a new way to make generative art, and are excited to share our first prototype!

Create any scene you can imagine with a simple collage and a prompt.

Try it out! https://t.co/rWd5JK2ES1

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

📢 We are hiring in the Autodesk AI Lab. Doubling down on what @adam_gaier said, for all those folks that are mission driven to create tools for designing better buildings, cars, devices etc and want to use AI/ML to make it happen.

[adam gaier @adam_gaier]

Come work with me at Autodesk!

i'll pick you up at the intersection of AI and design

apply here ⬇️
https://t.co/95GftixoFh

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

Fun collaboration between the Autodesk AI Lab and @jiajunwu_cs lab at Stanford! Learning to assemble (and also disassemble) is both technically challenging and impactful for manufacturing efficiency and ensuring products don't have a negative impact at end-of-life.

[Jousef Murad @Jousefm2]

🧠 AI for Visual LEGO Manual to a Machine-Executable Plan 🧠

👉 The authors present a novel learning-based framework, the Manual-to-Executable-Plan Network (MEPNet), which reconstructs the assembly steps from a sequence of manual images. 🧵👇

[Karl D.D. Willis @KarlDD]

For folks who are still at #ICML2022 I'll be giving a talk today at the Workshop on Machine Learning for Computational Design. Exciting line up!

https://t.co/gQ2bWlUYMy
https://t.co/OrhHMOb0Xz