Ziyi Yang

Research Scientist @DbrxMosaicAI | @Stanford Ph.D. | post-train lead for Phi-3/4

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

We launched Databricks’ document parsing system! It’s the first project I worked on after joining @databricks, and in just 9 months the team delivered SOTA quality at 3–5× lower cost, outperforming frontier proprietary LLMs and long-standing service providers on multiple benchmarks. Excited for what’s ahead.

[Matei Zaharia @matei_zaharia]

Great new capability in Databricks powered by our AI research team! We trained a document parsing system that delivers leading quality at 3-5x lower cost and outperforms leading VLMs like GPT-5 and Claude. This is critical to connect AI to so many kinds of data.

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

Why can’t programmers tell the difference between Halloween & Christmas?

Because oct 31 = dec 25.

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

feifei li is launching a deep vision course cs231n?

[juggernaut @curlysaarthak]

andrew ng is launching a deep learning course???

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

@jefrankle @DipendraMisra @glean Can you try “what food does Jonathan Frankle love the most?”👀

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

Congrats Shengjia!

[Shengjia Zhao @shengjia_zhao]

I am very excited to take up the role of chief scientist for meta super-intelligence labs. Looking forward to building asi and aligning it to empower people with the amazing team here. Let’s build!

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

Who/What is “Lora”? A witch?
Also “Grpo”, rapper?

[Yiping Lu @2prime_PKU]

Anyone knows adam?

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

We’re hiring! Stop by @databricks booth to learn more!

[Jonathan Frankle @jefrankle]

I'm at ICML 🇨🇦 and I'm hiring at @databricks. Visit our booth if you're interested. My scientific focus: It's 1972 in AI, there's an AI crisis, Dijkstra isn't here to save us, and maybe RL can. Why Databricks? The long road to AGI is being paved here and we have the real evals 🧵

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

🚀 #ICML2025 is here! Join the @databricks social event to chat LLMs, reasoning, multimodal AI & beyond
📅 Jul 15 · 6–8:30 PM
Secure your spot now 👉 https://t.co/9aqXeinuy5
#AgentBricks #LLM #Reasoning #Agent

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

@vin_sachi +1 best ppl, e.g., Vin🫡

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

@jmin__cho @unccs @JHUCompSci Congrats Jaemin!

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

@matei_zaharia @neondatabase 🔥

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

@liuzhuang1234 Maybe from the geo location embedded in the photo (e.g., taken by a phone)

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

Reply by GPT, LLMs are so unbiased and they’ll praise whoever pays the electricity bill:
“I’d lean toward Sam Altman—not because he’s infallible, but because he’s baked safety-and-ethics guardrails directly into his organization’s mission, and he’s demonstrated a willingness to course-correct transparently as the technology evolves.”

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

@vin_sachi @databricks Thank you Vin! Great pleasure collaborating with you on all those works.

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

Thrilled to cross 3K citations just as I start my next chapter at @databricks! 🚀 Huge thanks to collaborators & mentors who’ve fueled this journey. Can’t wait to turn research into impact at DBRX🔥

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

Another great work by @ZinengTang , generative contrastive learning for vision+language.

[Zineng Tang @ZinengTang]

We are thrilled to announce TULIP!

🌷 https://t.co/gNVVbDzze1

A state of the vision language encoders coupled with generative model for stronger representation learning.

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

@prakashkagitha @srush_nlp @SimonsInstitute Looks very interesting! Is there any chance the recording is available to the public? @srush_nlp

[NeurIPS Conference @NeurIPSConf]

NeurIPS acknowledges that the cultural generalization made by the keynote speaker today reinforces implicit biases by making generalisations about Chinese scholars. This is not what NeurIPS stands for. NeurIPS is dedicated to being a safe space for all of us. We want to address the comment made during the invited talk this afternoon, as it is something that NeurIPS does not condone and it doesn't align with our code of conduct. We are addressing this issue with the speaker directly.
NeurIPS is dedicated to being a diverse and inclusive place where everyone is treated equally.

[Ziyi Yang @yzy_ai]

@lilianweng me: keeps hitting refresh on Lil'Log