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Machine Learning with a Honk

Massimiliano Viola

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61. CVPR 2026 Recap

A conference a mile high

At the beginning of the month, the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (aka CVPR) 2026 took place in Denver, Colorado. With the convention center standing literally a mile high (yes, 16...

11 days ago
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60. Sapiens and Sapiens2

Introduction

Image foundation models learn powerful features from massive datasets with the goal of maximizing performance on a wide range of tasks. But when it comes to human-centric vision applications, such as fine-grained body part s...

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59. From AM-RADIO to C-RADIOv4

Introduction

Over the last five years, industry research in computer vision has produced a wide variety of foundation models. Powerful, general, and trained on large datasets, they have historically dominated certain tasks but consistent...

a month ago
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58. Utonia

Introduction

In a previous post (#46), we covered Sonata [2] and Concerto [3], two strong 3D point cloud encoders trained with self-supervised learning.

Sonata is essentially DINO for 3D: a student sees local and masked crops of a point...

2 months ago
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57. TIPS and TIPSv2

Introduction

Throughout our deep dives into major pretraining paradigms for vision encoders, we have repeatedly identified a tradeoff between dense feature quality (e.g., DINO) and alignment with text (e.g., CLIP) for downstream applicat...

2 months ago
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    Perception & Safety at Bedrock Robotics. Previously at Cerrion (YC S22), Stanford, and ETH Zurich.

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