david yan

phd @PrincetonVL. undergrad @princetoncs

[david yan @dzyan01]

@abhiadesai Taking "scaling seriously" often requires a large amount of sacrifice, so it's no surprise. And it's not always clear whether a decision is scale-pilled. For example: is pursuing a career in quant trading scale-pilled? I have heard compelling argument for both sides.

[Harvey Lederman @LedermanHarvey]

I've joined @AnthropicAI to work on alignment and character. I'll still teach at @nyuniversity; I'm on leave from @UTAustin.

[david yan @dzyan01]

@krishmatta the architecture or the papers 🤔

[david yan @dzyan01]

@AlexiGlad baseline (graduate student descent) is too strong

[david yan @dzyan01]

@krishmatta pointing to the sign

https://t.co/2zXhYTegSm

[Ankit Goyal @imankitgoyal]

Thrilled to share that I'll be joining the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2027!

My lab will work on Robot Learning, Dexterous Manipulation, Robot Foundation Models & 3D Perception. I'm looking for students to join me. Please apply and reach out.

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[david yan @dzyan01]

@krishmatta Assume I failed this test

[david yan @dzyan01]

@FangYi11101 nothing wrong with funmaxxing

[david yan @dzyan01]

@tenderizzation being a hardstuck diamond garen one-trick taught me resilience

[david yan @dzyan01]

@lukasmunzel @mirendil congrats lukas!!

[david yan @dzyan01]

fun fact: dinov3's train set is around 10% ImageNet-1k, which is about a 130x up-weighting (over uniform sampling)

[Andrew M. Dai @AndrewDai]

Incredibly excited to welcome @dustinvtran to @ElorianAI as our new Chief Reasoning Architect! 🚀
We had an amazing time working together at Google Brain, and after seeing his incredible work leading post-training at xAI, I couldn't be more thrilled to be teaming up again. Let’s build something special!
Welcome to the team, Dustin!

[Dustin Tran @dustinvtran]

personal news: i've joined Elorian as Chief Reasoning Architect. multimodal AGI is the most critical frontier as we move from the era of chatbots to coding agents to models that reason and act over the physical world. i'm really excited to design natively visual models across thinking, agents, architectures, and the systems stack with the amazing team at Elorian.

i wish the best to everyone at xAI & SpaceX — driving posttraining was a unique experience with so many memorable stories. all the best to the team, and to Elon.

[Raj Ghugare @GhugareRaj]

Does classical computation theory help explain the success of inference time compute in RL? We study this question in our #ICML2026 oral

We prove that policies with higher inference compute solve and generalize to a larger set of tasks. Empirically, we show that such policies can outperform 5x larger ResNets.

Website - https://t.co/yeYq3MtlNC

🧵👇

[david yan @dzyan01]

@itsandrewgao Hasn't shown up in degree data; this is based off what current sophomores are declaring.

https://t.co/sIARAHUnfp

[Adithya Murali @Adithya_Murali_]

@NVIDIA is working on one of the hardest problems in Physical AI so you don’t have to: generalist robotic pick-and-place.

We are excited to introduce GraspGenX at #CVPR2026—a foundation model for robotic grasping that works out of the box for unknown robots, novel objects, and unseen environments.

Unlike Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models or dedicated grasp networks that require expensive, embodiment-specific training, GraspGenX is cross-embodiment and works zero-shot. You simply pass a "robot prompt" alongside an image of the object to generate actions.

🚀 Key Highlights:
1) Scaling: Trained on over 2 Billion 6-DoF grasp rollouts entirely in physics simulation—a dataset size practically impossible to collect via real-world teleoperation.
2) Zero-Shot Transfer: Works out of the box for several common robot grippers widely used across the research community and industry.
3) Built for the Agentic Era: Features native MCP support, client-server architecture, and skills.md, allowing seamless integration into LLM/Agentic robotics workflows.
4) Full Pipeline Integration: Pair it with other open foundation models (like SAM3) and advanced motion solvers like cuRoboV2 for full deployment in entirely unknown environments.

If you are currently executing pick-and-place with a VLA or WAM, you can use GraspGenX to generate sim-verified trajectory data and inject it into your pipeline. No need to waste precious real-world engineering hours on data collection for standard manipulation tasks.

🌐Website: https://t.co/a7acm4Pw7N
💻Code: https://t.co/eYUYxCb7Jp
📄Paper: https://t.co/pDOVp0VJLL
📍CVPR Booth: Poster 619 on Jun 6 1:45 session at ExHall F

This work was led by the incredible @BeiningH (Princeton), in collaboration with a phenomenal team at NVIDIA: @erwincoumans, @yu_wei_chao, @balakumar_, @clembow, and Stan Birchfield

#CVPR2026

[david yan @dzyan01]

@menhguin @tenobrus @lu_sichu hm, more of a trilemma
https://t.co/6FugB92kvo

[Sergey Zakharov @ZakharovSergeyN]

Releasing RecGen: a collaboration between @ToyotaResearch, @toyota_europe, and @UvA_Amsterdam tackling a core 3D vision challenge: reconstructing complete multi-object scenes (parts, poses, textures, even occluded geometry) from just 1 to a few RGB-D views.

Trained purely on synthetic data, RecGen achieves SOTA on real-world robotics and 6D pose benchmarks, handling occlusions, symmetry, and complex interactions.

A step toward scalable, high-fidelity digital twins for robotics, and better evaluation and training of generalist policies.

https://t.co/x4EEcRy77V

[david yan @dzyan01]

I’d previously thought that single-view reconstruction would be tough with only synthetic data, but it turns out it’s not! Check out this very cool work applying procedural 3D data to *full* reconstruction.

[Sergey Zakharov @ZakharovSergeyN]

Releasing RecGen: a collaboration between @ToyotaResearch, @toyota_europe, and @UvA_Amsterdam tackling a core 3D vision challenge: reconstructing complete multi-object scenes (parts, poses, textures, even occluded geometry) from just 1 to a few RGB-D views.

Trained purely on synthetic data, RecGen achieves SOTA on real-world robotics and 6D pose benchmarks, handling occlusions, symmetry, and complex interactions.

A step toward scalable, high-fidelity digital twins for robotics, and better evaluation and training of generalist policies.

https://t.co/x4EEcRy77V