Thaddäus Wiedemer
thwiedemer.bsky.social
Thaddäus Wiedemer
@thwiedemer.bsky.social
Intern at Google Deepmind Toronto | PhD student in ML at Max Planck Institute Tübingen and University of Tübingen.
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Are we experiencing a 'GPT moment' in vision?

In our new preprint, we show that generative video models can solve a wide range of tasks across the entire vision stack without being explicitly trained for it.

🌐 video-zero-shot.github.io

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🎉 Excited to present our paper VGGSounder: Audio‑Visual Evaluations for Foundation Models today at #ICCV2025!

🕦 Poster Session 1 | 11:30–13:30
📍 Poster #88

Come by if you're into audio-visual learning and want to know whether multiple modalities actually help or hurt.
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Are we experiencing a 'GPT moment' in vision?

In our new preprint, we show that generative video models can solve a wide range of tasks across the entire vision stack without being explicitly trained for it.

🌐 video-zero-shot.github.io

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September 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Check out our newest paper!

As always, it was super fun working on this with @prasannamayil.bsky.social
New preprint out! 🎉

How does LLM training loss translate to downstream performance?

We show that pretraining data and tokenizer shape loss-to-loss scaling, while architecture and other factors play a surprisingly minor role!
brendel-group.github.io/llm-line/ 🧵1/8
February 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Reposted by Thaddäus Wiedemer
CuratedThoughts: Data Curation for RL Datasets 🚀

Since DeepSeek-R1 introduced reasoning-based RL, datasets like Open-R1 & OpenThoughts emerged for fine-tuning & GRPO. Our deep dive found major flaws — 25% of OpenThoughts needed elimination by data curation.

Here's why 👇🧵
February 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reposted by Thaddäus Wiedemer
🚀 We’re hiring! Join Bernhard Schölkopf & me at @ellisinsttue.bsky.social to push the frontier of #AI in education!

We’re building cutting-edge, open-source AI tutoring models for high-quality, adaptive learning for all pupils with support from the Hector Foundation.

👉 forms.gle/sxvXbJhZSccr...
February 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM