Sign in

Aviv Tamar

@aviv-tamar.bsky.social
653 followers 62 following 25 posts

AI and robotics researcher at Technion avivt.github.io/avivt/

PostsRepliesMedia
Aviv Tamar @aviv-tamar.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Can we get AI to understand and visualize tactile scenes? A short 🧵 about our new work Human have **tactile scene understanding** - transforming touch signals to a mental representation of objects we manipulate. We learn this as children. But what about AI? youtu.be/D1VAWh3p_GU
youtu.be
Toward Artificial Palpation: Representation Learning of Touch on Soft Bodies
YouTube video by Itamar Kelner
110
Reposted by Aviv Tamar
Abhishek Gupta @abhishekunique7.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I'm excited about scaling up robot learning! We’ve been scaling up data gen with RL in realistic sims generated from crowdsourced videos. Enables data collection far more cheaply than real world teleop. Importantly, data becomes *cheaper* with more environments and transfers to real robots! 🧵 (1/N)
32111
Reposted by Aviv Tamar
Omar Rivasplata @omarrivasplata.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Reminder: How to share arXiv papers
58811
Reposted by Aviv Tamar
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It's 2040. ICLR rebuttal now lasts two years. Reviewer 2 still hasn't read your paper but has strong opinions about it
41016
Aviv Tamar @aviv-tamar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Want to learn / teach RL? 
 Check out new book draft: Reinforcement Learning - Foundations
sites.google.com/view/rlfound... W/ Shie Mannor & Yishay Mansour This is a rigorous first course in RL, based on our teaching at TAU CS and Technion ECE.
415435
Reposted by Aviv Tamar
Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Some years ago, a director at a tech company told me: """ I get so many applicants that if you don't have a NeurIPS paper (or equivalent), I won't even look at the application. """ It's a quite reasonable individual rational response, but the systemic effects lead to what we see now.
5976
Aviv Tamar @aviv-tamar.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Reviews are mostly worthless; a good AC is critical.
020