Valentina Zadrija
@vzadrija.bsky.social
PhD in machine learning & computer vision. Interested in 3D vision, robotics & spatial AI in general
Training VLAs for a living...
Training VLAs for a living...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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"The Principles of Diffusion Models" by Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yang Song, Dongjun Kim, Yuki Mitsufuji, Stefano Ermon. arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
It might not be the easiest intro to diffusion models, but this monograph is an amazing deep dive into the math behind them and all the nuances
It might not be the easiest intro to diffusion models, but this monograph is an amazing deep dive into the math behind them and all the nuances
The Principles of Diffusion Models
This monograph presents the core principles that have guided the development of diffusion models, tracing their origins and showing how diverse formulations arise from shared mathematical ideas. Diffu...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"The Principles of Diffusion Models" by Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yang Song, Dongjun Kim, Yuki Mitsufuji, Stefano Ermon. arxiv.org/abs/2510.21890
It might not be the easiest intro to diffusion models, but this monograph is an amazing deep dive into the math behind them and all the nuances
It might not be the easiest intro to diffusion models, but this monograph is an amazing deep dive into the math behind them and all the nuances
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
Kickstarting our workshop on Flow matching and Diffusion with a talk by Eric Vanden Eijnden on how to optimize learning and sampling in Stochastic Interpolants!
Broadcast available at gdr-iasis.cnrs.fr/reunions/mod...
Broadcast available at gdr-iasis.cnrs.fr/reunions/mod...
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Kickstarting our workshop on Flow matching and Diffusion with a talk by Eric Vanden Eijnden on how to optimize learning and sampling in Stochastic Interpolants!
Broadcast available at gdr-iasis.cnrs.fr/reunions/mod...
Broadcast available at gdr-iasis.cnrs.fr/reunions/mod...
Hirose et al. OmniVLA: An Omni-Modal Vision-Language-Action Model for Robot Navigation
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19480
Navigation VLA (as opposed to robotic manipulation) + conditioning on language, ego-centric & satellite images, GPS-ish poses
2 flavours: 7B Llama + 50M edge version (EfficientNet, CLIP)
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19480
Navigation VLA (as opposed to robotic manipulation) + conditioning on language, ego-centric & satellite images, GPS-ish poses
2 flavours: 7B Llama + 50M edge version (EfficientNet, CLIP)
arxiv.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Hirose et al. OmniVLA: An Omni-Modal Vision-Language-Action Model for Robot Navigation
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19480
Navigation VLA (as opposed to robotic manipulation) + conditioning on language, ego-centric & satellite images, GPS-ish poses
2 flavours: 7B Llama + 50M edge version (EfficientNet, CLIP)
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19480
Navigation VLA (as opposed to robotic manipulation) + conditioning on language, ego-centric & satellite images, GPS-ish poses
2 flavours: 7B Llama + 50M edge version (EfficientNet, CLIP)
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
Major announcement ✨registration is OPEN✨
AI for Robotics workshop (4th edition): Spatial AI
🗓️Nov 21-22 Grenoble, France!
Details: tinyurl.com/bdtk2nzs
⭐⭐ 14 confirmed speakers ⭐⭐: 🧵2/3
Poster submissions (travel grant possible): 🧵 3/3
Spread the word!
AI for Robotics workshop (4th edition): Spatial AI
🗓️Nov 21-22 Grenoble, France!
Details: tinyurl.com/bdtk2nzs
⭐⭐ 14 confirmed speakers ⭐⭐: 🧵2/3
Poster submissions (travel grant possible): 🧵 3/3
Spread the word!
July 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Major announcement ✨registration is OPEN✨
AI for Robotics workshop (4th edition): Spatial AI
🗓️Nov 21-22 Grenoble, France!
Details: tinyurl.com/bdtk2nzs
⭐⭐ 14 confirmed speakers ⭐⭐: 🧵2/3
Poster submissions (travel grant possible): 🧵 3/3
Spread the word!
AI for Robotics workshop (4th edition): Spatial AI
🗓️Nov 21-22 Grenoble, France!
Details: tinyurl.com/bdtk2nzs
⭐⭐ 14 confirmed speakers ⭐⭐: 🧵2/3
Poster submissions (travel grant possible): 🧵 3/3
Spread the word!
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#cvpr2025 in Paris satellite event kicking off!
Thanks so much for organizing! @davidpicard.bsky.social @vickykalogeiton.bsky.social and @matthieucord.bsky.social
Thanks so much for organizing! @davidpicard.bsky.social @vickykalogeiton.bsky.social and @matthieucord.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
#cvpr2025 in Paris satellite event kicking off!
Thanks so much for organizing! @davidpicard.bsky.social @vickykalogeiton.bsky.social and @matthieucord.bsky.social
Thanks so much for organizing! @davidpicard.bsky.social @vickykalogeiton.bsky.social and @matthieucord.bsky.social
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
We talk a lot about how deep learning can enable new robot capabilities but a lot less about how we can use it to make robot capabilities more resilient and therefore make robots more deployable
Slide from an interesting talk by Prof Kostas Alexis in robots in the wild workshop at icra
Slide from an interesting talk by Prof Kostas Alexis in robots in the wild workshop at icra
May 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We talk a lot about how deep learning can enable new robot capabilities but a lot less about how we can use it to make robot capabilities more resilient and therefore make robots more deployable
Slide from an interesting talk by Prof Kostas Alexis in robots in the wild workshop at icra
Slide from an interesting talk by Prof Kostas Alexis in robots in the wild workshop at icra
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
Jetson @nvidia's version of our robot is available!
Compute is now on-board like a @Tesla car with FSD 🚗
Importantly, we rethink the control interface, so that you can view the video stream with the wonderful @rerundotio ⭐
Compute is now on-board like a @Tesla car with FSD 🚗
Importantly, we rethink the control interface, so that you can view the video stream with the wonderful @rerundotio ⭐
April 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Jetson @nvidia's version of our robot is available!
Compute is now on-board like a @Tesla car with FSD 🚗
Importantly, we rethink the control interface, so that you can view the video stream with the wonderful @rerundotio ⭐
Compute is now on-board like a @Tesla car with FSD 🚗
Importantly, we rethink the control interface, so that you can view the video stream with the wonderful @rerundotio ⭐
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Part 2 of SLAM handbook is out for public comments! let us know what you think :-) Issue tracker on GitHub awaits! Link: github.com/SLAM-Handboo...
March 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Part 2 of SLAM handbook is out for public comments! let us know what you think :-) Issue tracker on GitHub awaits! Link: github.com/SLAM-Handboo...
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Please share broadly to your networks so this can reach its intended audience! And we are also looking for volunteers to help instruct/mentor. Details here: cv4ecology.caltech.edu/ai-upskillin...
AI upskilling workshop for former US/state conservation scientists
cv4ecology.caltech.edu
March 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Please share broadly to your networks so this can reach its intended audience! And we are also looking for volunteers to help instruct/mentor. Details here: cv4ecology.caltech.edu/ai-upskillin...
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Introducing VGGT (CVPR'25), a feedforward Transformer that directly infers all key 3D attributes from one, a few, or hundreds of images, in seconds!
Project Page: vgg-t.github.io
Code & Weights: github.com/facebookrese...
Project Page: vgg-t.github.io
Code & Weights: github.com/facebookrese...
March 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Introducing VGGT (CVPR'25), a feedforward Transformer that directly infers all key 3D attributes from one, a few, or hundreds of images, in seconds!
Project Page: vgg-t.github.io
Code & Weights: github.com/facebookrese...
Project Page: vgg-t.github.io
Code & Weights: github.com/facebookrese...
Introducing the Learning to Drive (L2D) dataset by @yaak-ai.bsky.social & @hf.co: tinyurl.com/n4rbjehz
- 90 TB of data: 6 cameras, GPS, CAN
- Aligned w German driving task catalog w
diverse conditions 🌧️☀️❄️🚧🚦⛔️🚊
- Pwrd by NLP search: tinyurl.com/mr3hjz58
- LeRobotDataset v2.1 tinyurl.com/c4aus8f2
- 90 TB of data: 6 cameras, GPS, CAN
- Aligned w German driving task catalog w
diverse conditions 🌧️☀️❄️🚧🚦⛔️🚊
- Pwrd by NLP search: tinyurl.com/mr3hjz58
- LeRobotDataset v2.1 tinyurl.com/c4aus8f2
Yaak x Hugging Face: LeRobot goes to driving school
YouTube video by Yaak AI
youtu.be
March 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Introducing the Learning to Drive (L2D) dataset by @yaak-ai.bsky.social & @hf.co: tinyurl.com/n4rbjehz
- 90 TB of data: 6 cameras, GPS, CAN
- Aligned w German driving task catalog w
diverse conditions 🌧️☀️❄️🚧🚦⛔️🚊
- Pwrd by NLP search: tinyurl.com/mr3hjz58
- LeRobotDataset v2.1 tinyurl.com/c4aus8f2
- 90 TB of data: 6 cameras, GPS, CAN
- Aligned w German driving task catalog w
diverse conditions 🌧️☀️❄️🚧🚦⛔️🚊
- Pwrd by NLP search: tinyurl.com/mr3hjz58
- LeRobotDataset v2.1 tinyurl.com/c4aus8f2
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We're super excited to introduce the Academia Hub!
A game-changer for school, university, courses, research, projects, collaborations, publications.
Learn more: huggingface.co/docs/hub/aca...
It's a per-school offer, not individual => your faculty/admin have to apply
Go schools, go universities!
A game-changer for school, university, courses, research, projects, collaborations, publications.
Learn more: huggingface.co/docs/hub/aca...
It's a per-school offer, not individual => your faculty/admin have to apply
Go schools, go universities!
March 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We're super excited to introduce the Academia Hub!
A game-changer for school, university, courses, research, projects, collaborations, publications.
Learn more: huggingface.co/docs/hub/aca...
It's a per-school offer, not individual => your faculty/admin have to apply
Go schools, go universities!
A game-changer for school, university, courses, research, projects, collaborations, publications.
Learn more: huggingface.co/docs/hub/aca...
It's a per-school offer, not individual => your faculty/admin have to apply
Go schools, go universities!
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
MASt3R-SLAM code release!
github.com/rmurai0610/M...
Try it out on videos or with a live camera
Work with
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social*,
@ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
github.com/rmurai0610/M...
Try it out on videos or with a live camera
Work with
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social*,
@ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
Introducing MASt3R-SLAM, the first real-time monocular dense SLAM with MASt3R as a foundation.
Easy to use like DUSt3R/MASt3R, from an uncalibrated RGB video it recovers accurate, globally consistent poses & a dense map.
With @ericdexheimer.bsky.social* @ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
Easy to use like DUSt3R/MASt3R, from an uncalibrated RGB video it recovers accurate, globally consistent poses & a dense map.
With @ericdexheimer.bsky.social* @ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
February 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
MASt3R-SLAM code release!
github.com/rmurai0610/M...
Try it out on videos or with a live camera
Work with
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social*,
@ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
github.com/rmurai0610/M...
Try it out on videos or with a live camera
Work with
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social*,
@ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
@karpathy.bsky.social has a new video on LLMs www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTG...
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
YouTube video by Andrej Karpathy
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
@karpathy.bsky.social has a new video on LLMs www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTG...
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I'm excited to share that we'll have Ilan Price giving a talk at the University of Cambridge on GenCast -- a state-of-the-art model for probabilistic weather forecasting 🌦️⛈️⛅️
If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday (19 Feb), consider joining us -- it's open to all!
All details (+ Zoom link) below!
If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday (19 Feb), consider joining us -- it's open to all!
All details (+ Zoom link) below!
February 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I'm excited to share that we'll have Ilan Price giving a talk at the University of Cambridge on GenCast -- a state-of-the-art model for probabilistic weather forecasting 🌦️⛈️⛅️
If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday (19 Feb), consider joining us -- it's open to all!
All details (+ Zoom link) below!
If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday (19 Feb), consider joining us -- it's open to all!
All details (+ Zoom link) below!
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
Dinko Korunić - DEEP 2024 - eBPF: Features, capabilities and implementation (in Croatian language) www.youtube.com/watc... #ebpf #deep2024 #security #linux #networking
Dinko Korunić - DEEP 2024 - eBPF: Features, capabilities and implementation
The talk explores the powerful extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology. eBPF allows developers to run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading kernel modules. The talk covers key features such as network traffic monitoring, performance profiling
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Dinko Korunić - DEEP 2024 - eBPF: Features, capabilities and implementation (in Croatian language) www.youtube.com/watc... #ebpf #deep2024 #security #linux #networking
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The #NeurIPS2024 tutorial on “Flow Matching for Generative Modeling” is now available! Feel the learn 🤓
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
January 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The #NeurIPS2024 tutorial on “Flow Matching for Generative Modeling” is now available! Feel the learn 🤓
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
Is there a better way to combine ML & pleasure that the Mediterranean ML Summer School 🌴?
This year it will be held in Split, Croatia 🇭🇷 on September 8-12.
Split is a beautifull city full of landmarks & opportunities to test your 3D reconstruction models in the wild..
More info www.m2lschool.org
This year it will be held in Split, Croatia 🇭🇷 on September 8-12.
Split is a beautifull city full of landmarks & opportunities to test your 3D reconstruction models in the wild..
More info www.m2lschool.org
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Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School Split, Croatia
8-12 September 2025
www.m2lschool.org
January 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Is there a better way to combine ML & pleasure that the Mediterranean ML Summer School 🌴?
This year it will be held in Split, Croatia 🇭🇷 on September 8-12.
Split is a beautifull city full of landmarks & opportunities to test your 3D reconstruction models in the wild..
More info www.m2lschool.org
This year it will be held in Split, Croatia 🇭🇷 on September 8-12.
Split is a beautifull city full of landmarks & opportunities to test your 3D reconstruction models in the wild..
More info www.m2lschool.org
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
It really made me happy that Golang betteralign (github.com/dkorunic/...) got added these days to go-recipes (github.com/nikolaydu...) as one of hot/recommended static analysis tools. Thank you! \o/
3/3
3/3
GitHub - dkorunic/betteralign: Make your Go programs use less memory (maybe)
Make your Go programs use less memory (maybe). Contribute to dkorunic/betteralign development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:35 PM
It really made me happy that Golang betteralign (github.com/dkorunic/...) got added these days to go-recipes (github.com/nikolaydu...) as one of hot/recommended static analysis tools. Thank you! \o/
3/3
3/3
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
MASt3R-SLAM: easily the most robust dense monocular SLAM system I've ever seen, and also very accurate. Real-time, RGB only (no IMU), handles unknown focal length and zoom. More new videos coming soon
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social @rmurai0610.bsky.social. Paper and more: edexheim.github.io/mast3r-slam
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social @rmurai0610.bsky.social. Paper and more: edexheim.github.io/mast3r-slam
December 16, 2024 at 4:03 PM
MASt3R-SLAM: easily the most robust dense monocular SLAM system I've ever seen, and also very accurate. Real-time, RGB only (no IMU), handles unknown focal length and zoom. More new videos coming soon
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social @rmurai0610.bsky.social. Paper and more: edexheim.github.io/mast3r-slam
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social @rmurai0610.bsky.social. Paper and more: edexheim.github.io/mast3r-slam
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
MVImgNet2.0: A Larger-scale Dataset of Multi-view Images
Xiaoguang Han et 10 al;
tl;dr: bigger, but also better quality due to PixSfM and SAM-processing
arxiv.org/abs/2412.01430
Xiaoguang Han et 10 al;
tl;dr: bigger, but also better quality due to PixSfM and SAM-processing
arxiv.org/abs/2412.01430
December 13, 2024 at 1:10 PM
MVImgNet2.0: A Larger-scale Dataset of Multi-view Images
Xiaoguang Han et 10 al;
tl;dr: bigger, but also better quality due to PixSfM and SAM-processing
arxiv.org/abs/2412.01430
Xiaoguang Han et 10 al;
tl;dr: bigger, but also better quality due to PixSfM and SAM-processing
arxiv.org/abs/2412.01430
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
🚚TruckScenes: an unusual but interesting dataset for autonomous trucking (1st of its kind).
Data is acquired w/ a longhaul truck equipped w/ 4x cameras, 6x lidars, 6x radars, amounting to 747x 20s scenes w/ 3D box annotations
brandportal.man/d/QSf8mPdU5Hgj
Data is acquired w/ a longhaul truck equipped w/ 4x cameras, 6x lidars, 6x radars, amounting to 747x 20s scenes w/ 3D box annotations
brandportal.man/d/QSf8mPdU5Hgj
December 5, 2024 at 11:14 PM
🚚TruckScenes: an unusual but interesting dataset for autonomous trucking (1st of its kind).
Data is acquired w/ a longhaul truck equipped w/ 4x cameras, 6x lidars, 6x radars, amounting to 747x 20s scenes w/ 3D box annotations
brandportal.man/d/QSf8mPdU5Hgj
Data is acquired w/ a longhaul truck equipped w/ 4x cameras, 6x lidars, 6x radars, amounting to 747x 20s scenes w/ 3D box annotations
brandportal.man/d/QSf8mPdU5Hgj
Reposted by Valentina Zadrija
Colmap 3.11 release, a LOT of of cool things:
- incremental mapper with absolute pose priors
- CUDA-based BA through Ceres (disabled by default).
- PoseLib's RANSACs
- New BA covariance estimation, faster and more robust than Ceres.
- Fix Affine-covariant SIFT
github.com/colmap/colma...
- incremental mapper with absolute pose priors
- CUDA-based BA through Ceres (disabled by default).
- PoseLib's RANSACs
- New BA covariance estimation, faster and more robust than Ceres.
- Fix Affine-covariant SIFT
github.com/colmap/colma...
Release 3.11.0 · colmap/colmap
New Features
New pose prior based incremental mapper that can leverage absolute pose priors from e.g. GPS measurements.
New bundle adjustment covariance estimation functionality. Significantly fas...
github.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Colmap 3.11 release, a LOT of of cool things:
- incremental mapper with absolute pose priors
- CUDA-based BA through Ceres (disabled by default).
- PoseLib's RANSACs
- New BA covariance estimation, faster and more robust than Ceres.
- Fix Affine-covariant SIFT
github.com/colmap/colma...
- incremental mapper with absolute pose priors
- CUDA-based BA through Ceres (disabled by default).
- PoseLib's RANSACs
- New BA covariance estimation, faster and more robust than Ceres.
- Fix Affine-covariant SIFT
github.com/colmap/colma...