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Dan Yamins

@dyamins.bsky.social

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CS / Psych / Neuro Prof @ Stanford. Interested in NeuroAI and Bach. And Bonsai.

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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

And come see the substack series: danyamins.substack.com/p/the-theory...

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The Theory of Contravariance, Part 0

Breaking down our extensive new theory paper.

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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Come by our ICLR poster: Session 6, Pavilion 4, Sat 3:15 PM. Unified 3D Scene Understanding Through Physical World Modeling. It's pretty amazing what PSI can get from "just pixels"... Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=NQq... Project: neuroailab.github.io/3wm_page/ Code: github.com/lee-wanhee/3WM

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Unified 3D Scene Understanding Through Physical World Modeling

Understanding 3D scenes requires flexible combinations of visual reasoning tasks, including depth estimation, novel view synthesis, and object manipulation, all of which are essential for...

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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I think we finally made really significant progress on the biggest unsolved "developmental AI" problem: learning from human-scale data. Key idea: zero-shot world models that support concept extraction via approximate causal inference. amazing collab w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @khaiaw.bsky.social

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Hear @dyamins.bsky.social and yours truly discuss causality and ml: x.com/kordinglab/s..., www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-54...

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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Here is our best thinking about how to make world models. I would apologize for it being a massive 40-page behemoth, but it's worth reading. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09737

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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Lots of people are pinging me re PhD applications lately, here is what I tell them. I accept PhD students through: (1) CS (tinyurl.com/4azymrbu Comp Cog Neuro track), (2) Psychology tinyurl.com/4v7793tz and (3) Neuro tinyurl.com/ycx658h9. Good luck!

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PhD Admissions

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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Hey come to our workshop if you're at CCN this year! neuroailab.github.io/modeling-the...

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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This looks like it will be fun data-brain-mind.github.io Neurips '25

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Data on the Brain & Mind

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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It was a steep climb in the "early days" (~2012) up the ImageNet gradient towards better visual system models. That tapped out ~2015 after resnet ... But now w/ video models starting to perform, we can push forward again. Task-driven brain models ftw. amazing... @mschrimpf.bsky.social

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Aran Nayebi @anayebi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🚀 New Open-Source Release! PyTorchTNN 🚀 A PyTorch library for biologically-inspired temporal neural nets: unrolling computation through time. Integrates with our recent Encoder-Attender-Decoder, which flexibly combines models (Transformer, SSM, RNN) since no single one fits all sequence tasks. 🧵👇

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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Do science folks basically post the same thing here as on Twitter?? Is that the best practice? (I feel very underpowered/ underprepared) when it comes to science social media.

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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Going to #Cosyne2025? Join us (w/ @mdiamantaki.bsky.social) for our exciting workshop Object-centric Neuronal Representations toliaslab.org/workshop/cos... Featuring diverse species💁‍♀️🐒🐁🐝🕷️🤖 Our goal: Discuss universal & species-specific principles of object-centric vision See you in Montreal🥳

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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Only 4 days to go until our workshop!! 🪰🐁🤖 If you're at COSYNE, don't miss out on incredible talks and inspiring panel discussions at "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" on March 31 :) Check out the latest schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io

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