Apply for summer'24 internships @ PRIOR (computer vision)
@allen_ai
Join us in building large scale general purpose models for:
📷Visual Recognition
📄Multimodal Data
🤖Embodied AI
🛰️Planet monitoring
Apply by: Dec 11, '23
Incredibly excited to announce that Ross Girshick (
@inkynumbers
) will be joining the PRIOR team
@allen_ai
!
Ross is one of the most influential and impactful researchers in AI. I'm so honored that he is joining us, and I'm really looking forward to working with him.
I'm so grateful to work with
@tanmay2099
, lucky to work at the wonderful, warm, caring and inspiring AI2
@allen_ai
and honored to win the Best Paper award for CVPR this year!
Presenting Unified-IO, the 1st model to jointly perform a large set of AI tasks in:
Classical CV (eg segment,depth,normals)
Image synthesis (eg image-gen,in-painting)
V&L (eg VQA,refexp)
NLP (eg QA,MNLI)
@jiasenlu
ChrisC
@rown
@RoozbehMottaghi
@allen_ai
Applications open for a 1-2 yr Computer Vision residency
@allen_ai
-Partner with strong mentors
-Engage in impactful research
-Author papers at top venues
-Boost your grad school application
Importantly, enjoy a collaborative and supportive environment.
Deadline week
@allen_ai
for
#CVPR2024
.
While the last few days always add a bit of stress, working with this incredible team is so enjoyable and rewarding!
Where is the rest of the team ? At their desks, refusing to join us for dinner 😀
Join our team!
The PRIOR team
@allen_ai
is looking to hire Research Engineers to work on projects spanning: Vision+Lang, EmbodiedAI, AI4Good and more!
Would love to see applications from communities underrepresented in AI.
Apply:
I'm honored and thrilled to announce that I have been appointed as an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington CSE department. Looking forward to more joint projects between
@allen_ai
and
@uwcse
.
Applications now open for summer '22 internships with the PRIOR (computer vision) team
@allen_ai
We are looking for interns to work in several areas including: Embodied AI, Vision-&-Language and AI for the Common Good.
Deadline: Nov 8, 2021
Apply here:
Applications now open for summer '22 internships with the PRIOR (computer vision) team
@allen_ai
We are looking for interns to work in several areas including: Embodied AI, Vision-&-Language and AI for the Common Good.
Deadline: Nov 8, 2021
Apply here:
Excited to announce SATLAS, a platform for open global AI generated geospatial data.
Timely geospatial data is critical to monitor our planet from renewable energy growth to deforestation and more. Today, this is done manually. We automate this using AI.
The PRIOR team
@allen_ai
is looking for interns for Summer 2020. We have lots of exciting projects in different research areas including embodied AI and vision & language. Apply here:
OLMo is here! And it’s 100% open.
It’s a state-of-the-art LLM and we are releasing it with all pre-training data and code. Let’s get to work on understanding the science behind LLMs. Learn more about the framework and how to access it here:
GreenCV: Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times. As we pursue larger and more capable vision models, we must also seek to develop efficient ones. Towards this goal, I am planning to submit a PAMI-TC motion
@ICCV_2021
.
A first draft:
Excited to release Unified-IO 2 -- a multimodal model to not just parse but also produce images, text, audio and actions for robotics.
This was a very challenging and demanding multi year effort. One of the largest projects to come out of PRIOR
@allen_ai
. Very proud of the team!
Wondering how to train a multimodal AI Model with massive input and output modalities from scratch?
Introducing Unified-IO 2, the first autoregressive multimodal model that is capable of understanding and generating image, text, audio, and action.
Our model, inference code, and
At PRIOR
@allen_ai
, we are working at the X of robotics & CV to build the next generation of household robots. We work on ambitious projects and push boundaries in this field. If you’re interested in being a part of this team, join us! Reach out to me directly!
#hiring
#tech
Very exciting finding with huge implications for Embodied AI: Exploration emerges from imitating shortest paths at scale!
Check out SPOC. Trained with:
🚫No RL
🚫No human data
🚫No Depth/LiDAR
🚫No map
🚫No privileged information
🚫No sim2real adaptation
🚫No real-world finetune
🚀 Imitating shortest paths in simulation enables effective navigation and manipulation in the real world. Our findings fly in the face of conventional wisdom!
This is a big joint effort from PRIOR
@allen_ai
(6 first authors!).
Lots of exciting talks at The Embodied AI workshop
@CVPR
Watch them for free at
Topics include:
Cognitive development in young kids,
Navigation and perception for Embodied AI,
Robotics,
Sim-2-Real transfer
Embodied AI for all.
#CVPR2020
#EmbodiedAI
Objaverse-XL: A Universe of 10M+ 3D Objects
paper:
Natural language processing and 2D vision models have attained remarkable proficiency on many tasks primarily by escalating the scale of training data. However, 3D vision tasks have not seen the same
4 weeks to go until the application deadline for summer 2021 internships with the PRIOR (computer vision) team at
@allen_ai
! Lots of exciting research and engineering areas.
Learn more and apply here:
Deadline to apply: Nov 20, 2020
Agreed. Some resumes sent to grad schools are truly outstanding. But for candidates that aren't able to have such impressive resumes: Don't Worry.
There are many ways to get research experience before applying to a PhD and stand out amongst the applicant pool.
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Make sure to work on research projects during your bachelor/master studies. Having hand-on research experience has now become a necessity to get into PhD programs in AI.
Most applicants have either published or at least contributed to research paper submissions.
Static or interactive learning? AI2's PRIOR team shows that by playing Cache, a variant of hide-and-seek,
#AI
agents learn representations of their environment enabling high-level cognitive tasks, e.g. reasoning about object permanence and containment. See
We are looking for interns to work in several exciting areas including: Embodied AI, Language and Vision, AllenAct, Visual Knowledge Extraction, Representation Learning, Lifelong Learning, AI for the Common Good, Visual Recognition and more!
Applications are now open for summer 2021 internships with the PRIOR (computer vision) team at AI2! Join a creative team working at the forefront of
#computervision
research and tech for the common good.
Deadline to apply: Nov 20, 2020
Apply here:
Very excited to announce the BETA release of AllenAct!
More environments, tasks, algorithms, models and tutorials coming soon!
With AllenAct we hope to enable more reproducible and reusable research in Embodied AI, and lower the bar of entry for new researchers to this field.
AI2 is proud to announce our new
#embodiedAI
framework AllenAct! This library offers free, open, first-class support for a growing collection of embodied environments, tasks, and algorithms, plus reproductions of state-of-the-art
#AI
models.
Learn more:
Join us for a live panel on Embodied AI Simulation Environments
Sun Jun 14 5pm PST
Featuring:
@jana_kosecka
,
@DhruvBatraDB
,
@RoozbehMottaghi
, Karen Liu, Roberto Martin-Martin, German Ros
Moderated by:
@ybisk
Submit questions:
Zoom:
@abhshkdz
The bottom left of your picture showing a bottle of hand sanitizer, will forever remind us that this launch happened during the COVID crisis. What a time indeed.
Visual Programming: a neuro-symbolic approach to solving complex and compositional visual tasks in computer vision.
Uses LLMs to generate programs that invoke CV models and OpenCV routines and produce interpretable rationales.
Work led by
@tanmay2099
@allen_ai
Will multitask learning (MTL) be sufficient for creating general-purpose visual reasoning systems that generalize to 1000s of tasks?
We believe MTL might be necessary but not sufficient. These systems will ultimately need to code!
#CVPR2023
Blog:
🧵
Another possibility is to have reviewers rate each other -- using an N-point scale or by selecting amongst a few checkboxes. And this could be made mandatory.
As a reviewer one often has more insight into a paper to be able to judge another's review.
@ICCV_2021
@CVPRConf
@CVPR
I like this idea of having the possibility of giving feedback to reviewers after the process is concluded on a voluntary basis. Apart from the somehow opaque "best reviewer awards", reviewers rarely receive feedback, appreciation, suggestions, even complaints
#iccv2021
#cvpr2021
Happy birthday AI2-THOR. The past 5 years have been incredible but we are just getting started! Looking forward to exciting projects to improve the simulator, build capable embodied agents and get these policies working on real robots!
Today we celebrated five years of interactive vision research and
#EmbodiedAI
with
#AI2THOR
!
(The 🤖 guest of honor is wearing a party hat in the center.)
Congratulations to the PRIOR team on an amazing project, and here's to 5 more years!
Learn more:
Over the years, I've seen a lot of people (incl myself) complain about the ECCV template -- in person / online / via surveys.
Now that we are well past publishing hard copies of conference proceedings, is there something we can do to alter this template ?
SATLAS, to be presented
@ICCVConference
, is a new platform by
@allen_ai
for geospatial data products generated by AI using satellite images.
Explore:
This video by Favyen Bastani demonstrates some of the features in SATLAS.
AllenNLP 2.0 is out!
- Text+vision support
- Transformer Toolkit for easy experimenting with transformer architectures
- Built-in support for multi-task learning
- Faster data loading
Full release notes are at !
@CVPR
Given the rising cases and outbreaks at
#CHI2022
, are you considering having a masking mandate at the conference venue ?
Packed and loud poster sessions with the audience and presenters shouting out Q&A seems like the recipe for an outbreak if many people are unmasked.
Seeing many posts about testing positive for COVID after attending
#CHI2022
makes me worried about the upcoming
#CVPR2022
to be held at the same venue next month. 😬
ProcTHOR allowed us to scale Sim houses from 10s to 100000s.
Holodeck now allows us to go beyond plain houses to rich and open domain worlds via natural language descriptions of the environments and occupants!
Terrific internship by
@YueYangAI
in the PRIOR team
@allen_ai
.
🛸 Announce Holodeck, a promptable system that can generate diverse, customized, and interactive 3D simulated environments ready for Embodied AI 🤖 applications.
Website:
Paper:
Code:
#GenerativeAI
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Introducing SugarCrepe: A benchmark for faithful vision-language compositionality evaluation!
‼️ Current compositional image2text benchmarks are HACKABLE: Blind models without image access outperform SOTA CLIP models due to severe dataset artifacts
📜:
Objaverse -- A massive scale 3D object dataset from
@allen_ai
that can be used to:
✅Build 3D generative models
✅Scale up Embodied AI research
✅ Improve the robustness of 2D models
and more!
Richer annotations for Objaverse coming soon.
Stay tuned!
Introducing Objaverse, a massive open dataset of text-paired 3D objects!
Nearly 1 million annotated 3D objects to pave the way to build incredible large-scale 3D generative models: 🧵👇
🤗 Hugging Face:
📝ArXiv:
#CVPR2023
A new benchmark to study the fundamental question:
To what extent do AI systems comprehend the physical world?
Joint work between psychologists: Amanda Rose Yuile, Renée Baillargeon, Cynthia Fisher and
@GaryMarcus
& computer scientists:
@LucaWeihs
,
@RoozbehMottaghi
and myself
Today on the AI2 Blog, we ask our Predoctoral Young Investigators on the PRIOR team about what brought them to AI2, what experiences they’ve had as part of our institute, and where they’re headed next:
GRIT: A new large benchmark for vision!
Particularly excited about the parallel tracks:
Restricted - Levels the playing field for researchers with limited GPUs+Data
Unrestricted - Continues to encourage massive models
Joint work
@allen_ai
@IllinoisCS
To be intelligent is (partly) to be adept at many tasks. Task-specific vision models are therefore million-parameter idiot savants that are only a step towards AI. 📢 Thrilled to announce the GRIT benchmark to challenge us all to build robust vision systems that can do it all!
🧵
Introducing VidSitu: A large scale dataset for structured representations in videos.
Take part in our
#CVPR2021
challenge at -- a part of the 2021 ActivityNet challenges.
Videos capture more complex situations than can be represented by action and object labels.
We present VidSitu, a large-scale movie dataset towards rich structured representations of videos.
#CVPR2021
@allen_ai
@CSatUSC
📄
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Our latest work
@allen_ai
on Object Centric Image Editing.
Diffusion models trained on diverse synthetic datasets perform well in the real world!
This work also introduces the OBJect dataset -- a diverse and rich counterpart to the popular CLEVR dataset.
Imagine a 2D image serving as a window to a 3D world that you could reach into, manipulate objects, and see changes reflected in the image.
In our new OBJect 3DIT work, we edit images in this 3D-aware fashion while only operating in the pixel space!
🧵
Congratulations to this outstanding set of reviewers including
@tanmay2099
and
@LucaWeihs
from the PRIOR team
@allen_ai
and
@anand_bhattad
who recently interned with us.
As an AC, good reviewers are such a joy to work with!
They are objective, detailed, responsive and timely.
The results for the vote at the
#ICCV2021
PAMI-TC meeting are in: both motions passed.
Results for Motion 1: Penalties for Dual Submissions
Yes: 274
No: 57
Results for Motion 2: Green Computer Vision
Yes: 217
No: 122
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Turns out, it isn't great for embodied agents either!
Learning visual representations via gameplay - work with my colleagues in the PRIOR team
@allen_ai
to be presented at
@iclr_conf
What can embodied AI agents learn from gameplay? Our
#ICLR2021
paper () shows that by playing hide-and-seek, agents learn representations rivaling (self-)supervised approaches. We test our agent's with a suite of tasks inspired by experiments for infants.
Our very first step towards using Computer Vision to aid conservation efforts.
Looking forward to working on many exciting projects in this direction.
#AIforGood
AI has a critical role to play in tackling the IUU fishing crisis. Meet the new computer vision model developed by AI2’s researchers, engineers and maritime experts part of our
@SkylightMarine
platform that is set to be a ‘game changer:’
New Grounded Situation Recognition demo available on the Computer Vision Explorer.
Also, we are happy to host your SOTA models as demos for 10 different computer vision tasks. Let us know if you would like us to host your latest and greatest models!
Have you checked out the AI2 Computer Vision Explorer lately? We've added new tasks like Grounded Situation Recognition, where a model classifies a situation and locates objects in that situation.
Try our examples or use your own image:
#computervision
The AC workshop
@CVPR
is one of the best workshops I have attended in the last few years. Lots of interesting discussion and debates, some technical, some organizational and some existential. Great job PCs!
#CVPR2023
This ICCV review cycle, I've seen disparaging comments by reviewers towards one of our submissions and also towards another that I am reviewing and discussing. The lack of accountability in the reviewing process continues to be frustrating.
#ICCV2021
AI2-THOR is our open-source interactive environment for training
#EmbodiedAI
. We're pleased to announce the 2.7.0 release of
#AI2THOR
, which contains several performance enhancements that can provide dramatic reductions in training time.
Learn more:
Teaching multimodal transformer models to paint, while still retaining their abilities for QA and Captioning!
Work led by
@jmin__cho
in collaboration with
@jiasenlu
and
@HannaHajishirzi
.
"GPT-3 trained on an enormous amount of text data. What if the same methods were trained on both text and images?"
Learn about fascinating new work from our
#computervision
team in this piece by
@_KarenHao
via
@techreview
:
Very excited to see the large and diverse suite of Embodied-AI challenges this year, including 3 using
#AI2THOR
by
@allen_ai
.
Importantly, we have also released starter code (for powerful baselines) for these challenges.
Today we launch the ObjectNav, Rearrangement, and ALFRED challenges at the
#CVPR2021
Embodied-AI Workshop!
These challenges require
#AI
agents to navigate environments, rearrange rooms, and follow complex instructions in the
#AI2THOR
environment.
Undergraduate students and masters students at
#CVPR2019
: if you are looking for a 1 or 2 year pre doctoral residence in computer vision at
@allen_ai
come talk to me at the conference or message me.
4 weeks to go until the application deadline for summer 2021 internships with the PRIOR (computer vision) team at
@allen_ai
! Lots of exciting research and engineering areas.
Learn more and apply here:
Deadline to apply: Nov 20, 2020
Yesterday I gave a talk on AI & Architecture in India.
A question I was asked: "Should we advise children to avoid studying architecture since AI will take over ?"
Hype, fear and misinformation is real. We must work hard to allay fears, and explain AI's benefits
& limitations.
Are we using the right metrics to measure progress on self-supervised representation learning? Should we discard an encoder that doesn't provide a good initialization for ImageNet classification?
We try to answer these types of questions:
Kotar, et al.
Introducing Objaverse-XL, an open dataset of over 10 million 3D objects!
With it, we train Zero123-XL, a foundation model for 3D, observing incredible 3D generalization abilities: 🧵👇
📝 Paper:
We're thrilled to announce this year's winners of the AI2 Outstanding Intern of the Year award! 🏆
Congratulations to our exceptional summer interns Sarah Wiegreffe
@sarahwiegreffe
, Sean MacAvaney
@macavaney
, and Unnat Jain
@unnatjain2010
!
@Suhail
Visual programming:
Won the Best Paper award at CVPR this year. The 10 minute talk at the conference is here:
And the paper can be found on the website.
Looking forward to lots of interesting talks, discussions and perspectives about Embodied AI.
This series is open to all. If unable to attend due to scheduling conflicts or time zone reasons, please watch out for the uploaded talks.
#ai4all
Very happy to announce the Embodied AI Lecture Series @ PRIOR
A live lecture and discussion series in Embodied AI with a focus on cross-disciplinary work.
Lectures held biweekly Fri 11am PST. Open to all!
#embodiedai
@allenai
Details:
#CVPR2023
🗓️ Monday/Tomorrow at 12:45 PM
📍East Exhibit Hall B + Zoom
Join us for "Scholars & Big Models: How can Academics Adapt?"
@CVPR
workshop 🚀📸
NOTE: Talks WON'T be recorded. Don't miss candid talks and panels. See you there!🤝
Schedule:
I knew this work and ViperGPT before, but...
The talk contrasting such "visual programming" to massive multitask pretraining (unifiedIO, x-decoder, lit-decoder etc) or "instruction tuning" definitely kicked my thinking out of a local minimum 👍
Wonderful post touching upon ICCV 31 years ago, the 5 stages of grief on seeing the AlexNet numbers, and what questions continue to interest and intrigue
@Michael_J_Black
I've loved
#ICCV
since my first one in 1990. In this blog post, I reflect on the last 31 years of ICCV and the field of computer vision. Hopefully you enjoy this on the last day of
#ICCV2021
. See you in Paris in 2023!
so glad
@drfeifei
stopped for a chat at
@allen_ai
today on her book tour 🥰
Deeply inspiring personal stories and great insights on the future of AI & the role of nonprofits like AI2 and
@StanfordHAI
(our CEO Ali Farhadi did a wonderful job hosting, too!)
I'll be presenting GPV-1, GPV-2 and Unified-IO in my talk titled:
Towards General Purpose Vision
at the ODrum workshop in about 30 minutes. Looking forward to some interesting discussions!
#CVPR22
⚡️Multimodal research is rapidly advancing!
In this week's newsletter: we summarize progress in general-purpose ML (Unified-IO, MetaLM, LIFT) and more.
Read on here:
Protecting marine life is key to protecting the planet. To this end, researchers from AI2's
@SkylightMarine
and PRIOR teams partnered together to enhance Skylight technology. Read the blog for more and visit the team's workshop today at
#NeurIPS2023
:
If you are on the West coast, look outside. If not, look online. How long are you going to insist on driving SUVs, not using public transport, buying plastic wrapped groceries, being clueless about what to throw garbage/recycling/compost, consuming-consuming-consuming? Wake up!
Would love to see GPT4-V and Gemini battle it out on the GRIT benchmark.
GRIT is designed for large multi purpose multi modal models, and measures diverse capabilities, robustness and calibration.
If you cannot find a group to work for, read papers, implement them, reproduce results and put the code up on GitHub. This is a great service to the community, its a public link to reference in your SOP and resume and gives you some hands on experience with research code.
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Instead of scrolling twitter up and down, searching for papers on
@SemanticScholar
or Google, or searching for most discussed papers, for this CVPR
#CVPR2021
, I'm trying CVPR Buzz
by Matt Deitke.
And I LOVE IT!
I find demos to be incredibly useful for exploring a model's qualitative behavior as well as evaluating if a model may be helpful in downstream tasks. This page showcases some demos of popular models that we have used in the PRIOR team.
Announcing the AI2 Computer Vision Explorer!
This new tool from
@allen_ai
is a collection of demos of popular and state-of-the-art models for a variety of
#computervision
tasks - try, compare, and evaluate, using our images or your own!
#aidemos
#ai2
Reviewing is a crucial academic service, and particularly important if you are in the business of submitting papers!
Some reviewers however do not submit their reviews and also do not respond to requests from ACs. How should we deal with this ?
Warning / Review ban / submit ban ?
In this recent paper in our Learning by Interaction series, we try to answer the following question: "Can we learn about objects and their properties just by self-supervised interactions?"
#NeurIPS2020
Paper:
Code: