Andrei Bursuc
@abursuc.bsky.social
Research Scientist at valeo.ai | Teaching at Polytechnique, ENS | Alumni at Mines Paris, Inria, ENS | AI for Autonomous Driving, Computer Vision, Machine Learning | Robotics amateur
⚲ Paris, France 🔗 abursuc.github.io
⚲ Paris, France 🔗 abursuc.github.io
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Andrei Bursuc
@abursuc.bsky.social
· Jul 21
1/ Can open-data models beat DINOv2? Today we release Franca, a fully open-sourced vision foundation model. Franca with ViT-G backbone matches (and often beats) proprietary models like SigLIPv2, CLIP, DINOv2 on various benchmarks setting a new standard for open-source research.
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My first smartphone was an iPhone 3GS and then I changed to a series of Android phones in 2013 (HTC One, Lenovo K6, Xiami Note 7, Google Pixel 6) but was always nostalgic about iOS. Now I switched back to an iPhone 16. I waited 2 weeks before writing this, but I am __VERY__ unhappy about iOS.
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June 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My first smartphone was an iPhone 3GS and then I changed to a series of Android phones in 2013 (HTC One, Lenovo K6, Xiami Note 7, Google Pixel 6) but was always nostalgic about iOS. Now I switched back to an iPhone 16. I waited 2 weeks before writing this, but I am __VERY__ unhappy about iOS.
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I recently had to switch to an iphone after an entire life on android phones.
First shock is how bad and limited is the ios clock app compared to the google one -- I might be using alarms in very peculiar ways 😅
If you're out of ideas you can always have a look on what other folks are trying out.
First shock is how bad and limited is the ios clock app compared to the google one -- I might be using alarms in very peculiar ways 😅
If you're out of ideas you can always have a look on what other folks are trying out.
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I recently had to switch to an iphone after an entire life on android phones.
First shock is how bad and limited is the ios clock app compared to the google one -- I might be using alarms in very peculiar ways 😅
If you're out of ideas you can always have a look on what other folks are trying out.
First shock is how bad and limited is the ios clock app compared to the google one -- I might be using alarms in very peculiar ways 😅
If you're out of ideas you can always have a look on what other folks are trying out.
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
We introduce MIRO: a new paradigm for T2I model alignment integrating reward conditioning into pretraining, eliminating the need for separate fine-tuning/RL stages. This single-stage approach offers unprecedented efficiency and control.
- 19x faster convergence ⚡
- 370x less FLOPS than FLUX-dev 📉
- 19x faster convergence ⚡
- 370x less FLOPS than FLUX-dev 📉
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We introduce MIRO: a new paradigm for T2I model alignment integrating reward conditioning into pretraining, eliminating the need for separate fine-tuning/RL stages. This single-stage approach offers unprecedented efficiency and control.
- 19x faster convergence ⚡
- 370x less FLOPS than FLUX-dev 📉
- 19x faster convergence ⚡
- 370x less FLOPS than FLUX-dev 📉
The perks of early risers
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The perks of early risers
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Launching the Physical AI AV Dataset! 🚀
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
One of the largest, most diverse & commercially usable open-source datasets for AVs.
- 1727 hours of driving data
- Camera, LiDAR, & radar
- 25 countries, 2500+ cities
This is just the beginning, more features to come!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
One of the largest, most diverse & commercially usable open-source datasets for AVs.
- 1727 hours of driving data
- Camera, LiDAR, & radar
- 25 countries, 2500+ cities
This is just the beginning, more features to come!
October 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Launching the Physical AI AV Dataset! 🚀
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
One of the largest, most diverse & commercially usable open-source datasets for AVs.
- 1727 hours of driving data
- Camera, LiDAR, & radar
- 25 countries, 2500+ cities
This is just the beginning, more features to come!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
One of the largest, most diverse & commercially usable open-source datasets for AVs.
- 1727 hours of driving data
- Camera, LiDAR, & radar
- 25 countries, 2500+ cities
This is just the beginning, more features to come!
This is a major reset for autonomous driving research!
So exciting 🚀
So exciting 🚀
X-mas came earlier this year!
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is a major reset for autonomous driving research!
So exciting 🚀
So exciting 🚀
X-mas came earlier this year!
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
October 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
X-mas came earlier this year!
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
EuroHPC wrote a piece about our love of GPUs 😊
A EuroHPC Success Story | Clear Vision for Self-Driving Cars
www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-succ...
A EuroHPC Success Story | Clear Vision for Self-Driving Cars
www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-succ...
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
EuroHPC wrote a piece about our love of GPUs 😊
A EuroHPC Success Story | Clear Vision for Self-Driving Cars
www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-succ...
A EuroHPC Success Story | Clear Vision for Self-Driving Cars
www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-succ...
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
A reminder which might be relevant now: we are looking to hire a senior research scientist in Robotics at @naverlabseurope.bsky.social in Grenoble, France.
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A reminder which might be relevant now: we are looking to hire a senior research scientist in Robotics at @naverlabseurope.bsky.social in Grenoble, France.
Today is the day for our @iccv.bsky.social
workshop that we've been cooking with excitement in the past months.
Learning to See: Advancing Spatial Understanding for Embodied Intelligence #ICCV2025
Join us!
opendrivelab.com/iccv2025/wor...
workshop that we've been cooking with excitement in the past months.
Learning to See: Advancing Spatial Understanding for Embodied Intelligence #ICCV2025
Join us!
opendrivelab.com/iccv2025/wor...
October 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Today is the day for our @iccv.bsky.social
workshop that we've been cooking with excitement in the past months.
Learning to See: Advancing Spatial Understanding for Embodied Intelligence #ICCV2025
Join us!
opendrivelab.com/iccv2025/wor...
workshop that we've been cooking with excitement in the past months.
Learning to See: Advancing Spatial Understanding for Embodied Intelligence #ICCV2025
Join us!
opendrivelab.com/iccv2025/wor...
Trying to mitigate ICCV FOMO today.
Staying at home this time.
Have fun everybody!
Staying at home this time.
Have fun everybody!
October 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trying to mitigate ICCV FOMO today.
Staying at home this time.
Have fun everybody!
Staying at home this time.
Have fun everybody!
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Our recent research will be presented at @iccv.bsky.social! #ICCV2025
We’ll present 5 papers about:
💡 self-supervised & representation learning
🌍 3D occupancy & multi-sensor perception
🧩 open-vocabulary segmentation
🧠 multimodal LLMs & explainability
valeoai.github.io/posts/iccv-2...
We’ll present 5 papers about:
💡 self-supervised & representation learning
🌍 3D occupancy & multi-sensor perception
🧩 open-vocabulary segmentation
🧠 multimodal LLMs & explainability
valeoai.github.io/posts/iccv-2...
October 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Our recent research will be presented at @iccv.bsky.social! #ICCV2025
We’ll present 5 papers about:
💡 self-supervised & representation learning
🌍 3D occupancy & multi-sensor perception
🧩 open-vocabulary segmentation
🧠 multimodal LLMs & explainability
valeoai.github.io/posts/iccv-2...
We’ll present 5 papers about:
💡 self-supervised & representation learning
🌍 3D occupancy & multi-sensor perception
🧩 open-vocabulary segmentation
🧠 multimodal LLMs & explainability
valeoai.github.io/posts/iccv-2...
Hear! Hear!
Whatever you do, don’t burn out. It’s terrible and it’s hard to fully recover, like a knee injury that makes you too scared to try jumping again
October 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Hear! Hear!
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
“Has anyone heard about DUSt3R?”
All hands and hearts up in the room.
Honored to welcome @gabrielacsurka.bsky.social today to speak about the amazing work @naverlabseurope.bsky.social towards 3D Foundation Models
All hands and hearts up in the room.
Honored to welcome @gabrielacsurka.bsky.social today to speak about the amazing work @naverlabseurope.bsky.social towards 3D Foundation Models
October 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Has anyone heard about DUSt3R?”
All hands and hearts up in the room.
Honored to welcome @gabrielacsurka.bsky.social today to speak about the amazing work @naverlabseurope.bsky.social towards 3D Foundation Models
All hands and hearts up in the room.
Honored to welcome @gabrielacsurka.bsky.social today to speak about the amazing work @naverlabseurope.bsky.social towards 3D Foundation Models
The unreasonable effectiveness of mastering the skill of placing <EOS> in real life
October 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The unreasonable effectiveness of mastering the skill of placing <EOS> in real life
The outstanding reviewer award is definitely one of my favorite type of awards as good reviewing helps so much to advance our community and research forward.
Congrats to all great reviewers out there whether rewarded this time or not! #iccv2025
Congrats to all great reviewers out there whether rewarded this time or not! #iccv2025
Congratulations to our lab colleagues who have been named Outstanding Reviewers at #ICCV2025 👏
Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social
Anh-Quan Cao @anhquancao.bsky.social
Renaud Marlet
Eloi Zablocki @eloizablocki.bsky.social
@iccv.bsky.social
iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social
Anh-Quan Cao @anhquancao.bsky.social
Renaud Marlet
Eloi Zablocki @eloizablocki.bsky.social
@iccv.bsky.social
iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
2025 ICCV Program Committee
iccv.thecvf.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The outstanding reviewer award is definitely one of my favorite type of awards as good reviewing helps so much to advance our community and research forward.
Congrats to all great reviewers out there whether rewarded this time or not! #iccv2025
Congrats to all great reviewers out there whether rewarded this time or not! #iccv2025
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Congratulations to our lab colleagues who have been named Outstanding Reviewers at #ICCV2025 👏
Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social
Anh-Quan Cao @anhquancao.bsky.social
Renaud Marlet
Eloi Zablocki @eloizablocki.bsky.social
@iccv.bsky.social
iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social
Anh-Quan Cao @anhquancao.bsky.social
Renaud Marlet
Eloi Zablocki @eloizablocki.bsky.social
@iccv.bsky.social
iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
2025 ICCV Program Committee
iccv.thecvf.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Congratulations to our lab colleagues who have been named Outstanding Reviewers at #ICCV2025 👏
Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social
Anh-Quan Cao @anhquancao.bsky.social
Renaud Marlet
Eloi Zablocki @eloizablocki.bsky.social
@iccv.bsky.social
iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social
Anh-Quan Cao @anhquancao.bsky.social
Renaud Marlet
Eloi Zablocki @eloizablocki.bsky.social
@iccv.bsky.social
iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
Some night runs seem more like sightseeing than running
October 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Some night runs seem more like sightseeing than running
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Here we go again 😅 This time I’m planning to take a more senior role to help mentor the next gen of publicity chairs. Please consider volunteering!
#CVPR2026 is looking for Publicity Chairs! The role includes working as part of a team to share conference updates across social media (X, Bluesky, etc.) and answering community questions.
Interested? Check out the self-nomination form in the thread.
Interested? Check out the self-nomination form in the thread.
September 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Here we go again 😅 This time I’m planning to take a more senior role to help mentor the next gen of publicity chairs. Please consider volunteering!
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Many treat uncertainty = a number. At Apple, we're rethinking this: LLMs should output strings that reveal all information of their internal distributions. We find that Reasoning, SFT, CoT can't do it - yet. To get there, we introduce the SelfReflect benchmark.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.20295
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.20295
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Many treat uncertainty = a number. At Apple, we're rethinking this: LLMs should output strings that reveal all information of their internal distributions. We find that Reasoning, SFT, CoT can't do it - yet. To get there, we introduce the SelfReflect benchmark.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.20295
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.20295
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Update: ResearchGate has investigated the case, and, as far as I can see, all the suspicious papers (~200) have now been removed. Many thanks to the @researchgate.bsky.social team!
Discovered that our RangeViT paper keeps being cited in what might be LLM-generated papers. Number of citations increased rapidly in the last weeks. Too good to be true.
Papers popped up on different platforms, but mainly on ResearchGate with ~80 papers in just 3 weeks.
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Papers popped up on different platforms, but mainly on ResearchGate with ~80 papers in just 3 weeks.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Update: ResearchGate has investigated the case, and, as far as I can see, all the suspicious papers (~200) have now been removed. Many thanks to the @researchgate.bsky.social team!
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
CoRL 2025 is just around the corner in Seoul, Korea!
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We're excited to present our latest research and connect with the community.
#CoRL2025
🤖 🚗
We're excited to present our latest research and connect with the community.
#CoRL2025
September 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
CoRL 2025 is just around the corner in Seoul, Korea!
🤖 🚗
We're excited to present our latest research and connect with the community.
#CoRL2025
🤖 🚗
We're excited to present our latest research and connect with the community.
#CoRL2025