Pranay Meshram

world models, VLAs, cv research intern @iitrookee

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@anm5704 i have zero trust on this administration...rnd is f*ked up

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@adithya_s_k then it says.. sorry, i messed up... only to mess up again

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

It’s become very common for people to assume that if you use an em dash — or proper punctuation at all — you must be using GPT.

[Jitendra MALIK @JitendraMalikCV]

I want to offer some unsolicited advice to computer vision researchers jumping into robotics. Don't focus too much on VLMs, VLAs etc. That's fine, but the real action is at the sensorimotor level. Most of the open problems in robotics are in manipulation, which is about hand-object interaction, and contacts and forces are central. Proprioception and tactile sensing are as important as vision. Don't get seduced by cherry-picked demos. You can't do robotics without doing robotics.

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

exactly! I wonder the same thing... Seriously, DINOv2 works so well!

[Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. @iScienceLuvr]

I am genuinely frustrated by how poorly self-supervised learning for vision is researched and how underappreciated it is.

Like how has DINOv2 been basically the best model for the past 3 years lol

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@heinenbros @generalcatalyst congrats guys !

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@sean_pixel @interlatent @allen_ai i see molmoact2 actually works on real world scenarios...unlike some models

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@arigatou030 the honeymoon is over now... my single request cost me an entire month's tokens

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

3 conference rejections so far in my research career...
Got Desk Rejected at NeurIPS today.
Some rejections stay with you...

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@gabriberton people just need to learn web search, i'm pretty sure the first search result is better than NetVLAD

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

more views, sure...but honestly, it’s just embarrassing

[Amit LeVi ✈️ ICML2026 @AmitLeViAI]

Such a great evening to start a brand new research for NeurIPS in 3.5 days.🧘‍♂️

Day 1: planning.

Night 1: running experiments and sending the abstract.

Day 2: reading results fighting with Claude, and sending again.

Night 2: sleep (optional).

Day 3: opening Codex, and finally, write the pape in parallel.
Night 3: resolving the “beef” with Claude (temporary peace) and going to sleep.

Day 4: final reading, last-minute fixes, submission then some relaxation, maybe a beach walk.

I’ll keep you posted on the results.

This will be my only single-author paper, so I can’t hide behind other submissions if it gets rejected 😅

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@b_santra DMed you!

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@levelheaded_94 @fpv_labs Damnn, this is awesome..

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@TheTuringPost The more JEPA shows up, the more I regret skipping it.

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@gabriberton @GoogleDeepMind Congratulations 🎉, I've been following your work on place recognition for a while, it's incredible..

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@baifeng_shi Amazing work, looking forward to implementing it

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@murloren @ylecun @AdrienBardes This is gonna be big....huge congrats 🎉

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@kwangmoo_yi Impressive work man! I always wondered if vggt could be used for world modelling....

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@Amara__Don Go for GU brother...they got crazy money

[Pranay Meshram @praymesh]

@jddeep003 i have DMd you on ig, pls check