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Aug 25 - Advances in AI at NYU

AUG26
01:00 · Asia / Tokyo
  • Researchers from NYU present talks on topics related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision.
  • This virtual meetup is designed for people interested in the latest academic and technical developments in AI.
  • Attendees can learn about current research trends and network with others in the AI research community.

About this event

Join our virtual meetup to hear talks from researchers at NYU on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision.

Date, Time and Location

Aug 25, 2026
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST
Online. Register for the Zoom!

Using Computer Vision to Advance the Sciences

I'll present some of our ongoing work on using computer vision to create impact in the sciences. These target a two areas, solar physics and evolutionary biology, that deal with objects of radically different sizes but are unified by a need for high quality, trustworthy data.

I'll show off our efforts, done in collaboration with domain experts, that aim to produce the best possible maps of the Sun's powerful magnetic field and have created some of the world's largest repositories of data about bird morphology.

About the Speaker

David Fouhey is an Associate Professor at New York University and a research scientist at Polymathic AI. Before joining NYU, he received a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon, was a postdoc at UC Berkeley, and was a professor at University of Michigan.

Solaris: Building a Multiplayer Video World Model in Minecraft

This talk will introduce Solaris: a multiplayer video world model in Minecraft. I will first present SolarisEngine, the software platform we built to simulate realistic multiplayer gameplay between bots at scale, enabling us to collect a large training dataset of aligned multiplayer actions and frames.

I will then discuss our staged training pipeline, starting with single-player pre-training before converting the model into a long-horizon multiplayer generator through bidirectional training, followed by causal training, and concluding with Self Forcing. I will also cover our memory-efficient implementation of Self Forcing, called Checkpointed Self Forcing.

Finally, I will showcase generated videos illustrating how Solaris maintains coherent long-horizon multiplayer interactions.

About the Speaker

Oscar Michel is a PhD student at NYU advised by Prof. Saining Xie. His

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