Alex Quach

ML @reductoai (prev @mit @liquidai). Here to understand network effects

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

@jannalulu_ jk it actually was too sparse and i prefer dense non mono space

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

good thing to *figure* out

[chuyi shang @chuyishang]

https://t.co/J7KkfRApmn

[Adit @aditabrm]

i avoid emotional topics in my posts but decided to just say it how it is in this tiering of classic PDFs. i think real PDF lovers will agree but some of you may get your feelings hurt

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

@TheOtherGandhi_ @vibhayellamraju can’t be pointing that out 😭

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

@skalskip92 yup zero shot with potentially many images for the task

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

@matvelloso did some benchmarking of some open-source vision Jevs
https://t.co/aeHpgOc6te

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

Jev doesn't support image input yet, so I tested out some open-source Jev-like alternatives.

Seems like DiffusionGemma and reflex are on the pareto for the open source Vision-Jevs!

https://t.co/jy18qLK1NW (ty @mmastrac)
https://t.co/fKW3Pd6Mjf (ty @kshetrajna )

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

Can’t wait for the @SchmidhuberAI invented Jev 2 decades ago post

[Kun Chen @kunchenguid]

poor guy claim to have built Jev a year ago but no one cared, and now Jev stole all the thunder

many people are saying “you gotta tell your story” or “marketing is important”, and they just completely missed what actually made the difference here

i just looked into this laya model https://t.co/8QWCGZqS43 and:

- it only supports 512-1k context… a lot of use cases won’t fit at all

- evaluating the model directly shows its accuracy is as good as a coin flip. in order to get good results, you need to first fine tune it

i’m sorry, but that’s not Jev

there’s a massive gap between an interesting research and a useful product

you can “tell your story” all you like, but you can’t blame Jev for stealing your thunder when Jev did all the work to make a well-packaged solution anyone can just grab and go

Jev is not completely new from an academic sense, just like how ChatGPT was not the first LLM

don’t underestimate the effort and value in putting together something that’s actually good enough for adoption - it makes all the difference

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

@felipeinfante @mmastrac @kshetrajna very cool, will be useful for wider sweeps on base models

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

Jev doesn't support image input yet, so I tested out some open-source Jev-like alternatives.

Seems like DiffusionGemma and reflex are on the pareto for the open source Vision-Jevs!

https://t.co/jy18qLK1NW (ty @mmastrac)
https://t.co/fKW3Pd6Mjf (ty @kshetrajna )

[Google Gemma @googlegemma]

"DiffusionGemma as Jev" showcases the power of non-autoregressive architectures.

While Jev demonstrates the value of rapid decision models, running DiffusionGemma in this paradigm leverages canvas diffusion to evaluate structured choices in a single parallel pass:

⚡ ️Massive Parallelism: Denoises across an open canvas in a single step instead of sequential autoregressive token generation (~0.2s on a DGX spark).

🧠 Full Bidirectional Attention: Allows every option to attend to the full context concurrently, yielding well-calibrated decision distributions.

👁️ Multimodal Grounding: Inherits Gemma 4's spatial vision capabilities for complex visual and text decisions.

Read more about this approach here:
https://t.co/hCEg276mzA
https://t.co/vRLhy6KECT
https://t.co/EQEumaQLYd

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

@sheherenow_ @mmastrac @kshetrajna cool stuff, seems like it has similar base models of Gemma/Qwen but will take a look!

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

@FReza1984 @mmastrac @kshetrajna yup! i think there are many techniques beyond autoregressive VLMs but this is definitely another useful one

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

the agents out there

vs

the agents I get

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

vibeshipping is the new vibecoding

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

@neel_sh_ the capabilities are jagged

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

we're potentially solving millennium problems but i still can't upload a PDF to claude

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

@aditabrm @reductoai i didn't know you guys disappeared to NYC

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

what in the shipping velocity is this naming scheme

[Alex Quach @alexquach]

@hu_yifei beef stew with hotpot soup 👀