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Kashyap Chitta

@kashyap7x.bsky.social
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kashyap7x.github.io Principal Investigator at ELLIS Institute Tübingen; Co-Founder and CTO at kesai.eu; Physical AI, Robot Learning, Autonomous Driving.

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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚀 The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is hiring Principal Investigators as Hector Endowed Fellows! Enjoy globally competitive packages, full academic freedom & possible co-appointments w/ MPI-IS and the @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social 📍 Tübingen, 🇩🇪 📅 Apply by Dec 13 🔗 institute-tue.ellis.eu/jobs/PI-call...
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Principal Investigator Positions (m/f/d) as Hector Endowed Fellows of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen
The ELLIS Institute in Tübingen, Germany, invites applications for Principal Investigator positions as Hector Endowed Fellows of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen.
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 17/09/2026
KE:SAI is an open science lab! We talk about our research without secrets. Visit our new website to find some of our recent talks: kesai.eu/talks/
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Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We start the 2nd #ssad2026 day with @kashyap7x.bsky.social talking about: Making progress measurable - Evaluation and benchmarking of driving policies
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 10/09/2026
Making progress measurable in autonomous driving. Our new post traces the path from NAVSIM to the AlpaSim challenge: kesai.eu/blog/2026-09...
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European Conference on Computer Vision #ECCV2026 @eccv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
2 great days of #ECCV2026 workshops and tutorials are slowly heading to an end, and the main conference is nearing! Use Scholar Inbox to help plan out your days so you get to see all the papers relevant to you! www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/e...
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The 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026) Planner - Scholar Inbox
Plan your schedule for The 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026). Browse sessions, pin papers, and export your schedule.
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 08/09/2026
KE:SAI is ready for CyberValley Day 2026! cyber-valley.de/en/events/cy...
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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
To build a self-driving car, you need lots of GPUs. KE:SAI is renting a dedicated H100 cluster from @scaleway.com to perform our research and train foundation models. The pictures show one of our many racks.
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ELLIS Institute Tübingen @ellisinsttue.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🚀 We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Kashyap Chitta to the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as our newest Principal Investigator and Hector-Endowed Fellow! Alongside this academic role, he will continue his work with @kesai.eu, a non-profit open-science AI lab he co-founded in May 2026.
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Dr. Kashyap Chitta Joins ELLIS Institute Tübingen as Principal Investigator and Hector-Endowed Fellow
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 31/07/2026
🏹 Job Alert: Research Scientist in World Models and Autonomy at KE:SAI 📍 Tübingen 🇩🇪 🔗 kesai.eu/join
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KE:SAI — Open Positions at Our AI Research Lab
Join KE:SAI, a Franco-German non-profit AI research lab co-located in Tübingen and Paris. Open positions for researchers in physical AI and autonomous systems.
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 17/07/2026
It's getting real! We have been working on self-driving for more than 15 years, and most of that work has happened in simulation. Today that changes: our research vehicle arrived, and we can start testing our ideas in the physical world. kesai.eu/blog/2026-07...
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 10/07/2026
In this talk from the GenAV Workshop at ICRA 2026, our CTO Kashyap Chitta highlights how open tools, shared benchmarks, and collaborative research can help accelerate progress in autonomous driving. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYp...
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Keshyap Chitta - KE:SAI - Workshop on Generalization in Autonomous Driving at ICRA 2026
What does it take to make autonomous driving research more open, accessible, and scalable? In this talk from the 1st GenAV Workshop at ICRA 2026, Kashyap Chitta explores Democratizing Autonomous…
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 08/07/2026
The AlpaSim E2E Closed Loop Challenge 2026 is open for registration and leaderboard access in a soft-open period. Build AV policies for realistic closed-loop simulation, where each policy's own decisions shape future scenes, observations, and interactions.
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 03/07/2026
Our CTO Kashyap gave a very nice talk at ICRA 2026 on "World Models: The Next Frontier of Motion Prediction". The talk sketches the history and also lays out what we plan to do at KE:SAI. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxlh...
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Kashyap Chitta: World Models: The Next Frontier of Motion Prediction
Talk given on the 8th Workshop on Long-term Human Motion Prediction (LHMP) at ICRA 2026. Link to the Workshop website: https://motionpredictionicra2026.github.io Talk Abstract: Predicting how the…
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 03/07/2026
Our team placed 3rd in the KITScenes LongTail Challenge at the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Autonomous Driving! We used zero-shot evaluation with the NVIDIA Alpamayo 1.5 vision-language-action model, with zero fine-tuning or task-specific training.
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Target points (from a system like Google maps) are how autonomous vehicles navigate long routes. However, make them too precise, and the policy exploits shortcuts. To deploy these systems in real-world conditions with low-res maps and noisy GPS, @kesai.eu is studying how to mitigate this bias.
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Nicklas Hansen @ncklashansen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Super excited to share the last paper of my PhD: "Hallucination in World Models is Predictable and Preventable" ✨ We train a 350M-parameter generative world model on a large dataset spanning 210 tasks and show that we can predict *when* hallucination will happen and use that info to fix it! 🧵1/n
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
You really should be using scholar inbox. Don't want to gate keep how useful this is: www.scholar-inbox.com
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Scholar Inbox - Free Academic Paper Recommendations
Scholar Inbox is a free personal paper recommender enabling researchers to stay up-to-date with the most relevant progress in their field. Daily indexes arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, ChemRxiv and open acce...
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Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Interested in the ELLIS Summer School on Autonomous Driving? 🚗 Let's meet our speakers! Today we introduce @kashyap7x.bsky.social (Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at @kesai.eu) 📝 (New) Application deadline: June 12, 2026 pages.cvc.uab.es/ssadriving/
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ELLIOT Project @elliot-eu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Missed the deadline? You’re in luck! 🚨 👉 Deadline Extended: Friday, 12 June! Last call to dive into robust, multimodal AI for autonomous driving! 🏎️✨ 👇 Apply before Friday! pages.cvc.uab.es/ssadriving/ @ellis.eu @valeoai.bsky.social @uab.cat
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ELLIS Summer School on Autonomous Driving — Barcelona 2026
An official ELLIS Summer School — four intensive days in Barcelona where world-class researchers and the next generation of scientists converge to push the boundaries of perception, world models, end-to-end driving, and beyond.
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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🔬 This week's research highlight is 123D, KE:SAI's effort to unify all open driving data, creating the largest and most diverse pool of autonomous driving data out there.
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 24/05/2026
KE:SAI has been (briefly) featured in ZDF Länderspiegel! Watch here (starting at 17:00, in German): www.zdf.de/video/magazi...
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 20/05/2026
Bill Gurley made a fantastic post on the case for open-science labs like KE:SAI. A strongly encouraged read on open source in general and for autonomous vehicles in particular! p3institute.substack.com/p/from-open-...
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From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy
How the Smartest Executives Are Using Open Source Techniques to Optimize Corporate Strategy
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
@kesai.eu is a joint venture of @kyutai-labs.bsky.social and @ellisinsttue.bsky.social. We are a focused team building fully open stacks together with the community. We have locations in Tübingen and Paris. If you want to build the future of open physical AI with us, we’re hiring! kesai.eu/join
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KE:SAI - Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence @kesai.eu · 20/05/2026
Today @kyutai-labs.bsky.social and @ellisinsttue.bsky.social launch @kesai.eu! Robot learning is bottlenecked by the cost of physical interaction. Our mission is to advance the efficiency frontier of robust & safe physical AI through fully open and reproducible research. kesai.eu/blog/2026-05...
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Kyutai and ELLIS Tübingen launch KE:SAI: A Premier Franco-German Partnership for Open Science in Physical AI
Kyutai and ELLIS Tübingen announce the official launch of KE:SAI – Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence, a non-profit open science lab for physical AI.
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Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Hello world from @kesai.eu! Here is a new non-profit open-science AI lab based in Tübingen and Paris pushing the frontiers of Physical AI and self-driving in particular. They have a top-notch founding team, an ambitious agenda and incredible supporters (the team behind @kyutai-labs.bsky.social).
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Open-source fueled the LLM revolution, but Physical AI hasn't fully benefited from this flywheel yet. Today, we're launching kesai.eu, our mission to democratize robotics research! First milestone: training a frontier-level self-driving policy using significantly less data than typically required.
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KE:SAI — Open Science Autonomy Lab
KE:SAI is a Franco-German non-profit open science lab for scalable autonomous intelligence.
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
pip install py123d 3,300 hours of multimodal driving data at your fingertips (Physical AI AV + nuPlan + … + can add custom datasets)! 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.08084 ⭐️ GitHub: github.com/kesai-labs/py123d Monumental effort led by @danieldauner.bsky.social to accelerate open-source AV research.
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Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
py123d: @danieldauner.bsky.social et al. did all the crazy and dirty work to unify the highly heterogeneous autonomous driving datasets into a single efficient data format. nuscenes + nuplan + Waymo + Physical AI AV, etc., are all there. This is how you accelerate open-source AD research!
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
pip install py123d 3,300 hours of multimodal driving data at your fingertips (Physical AI AV + nuPlan + … + can add custom datasets)! 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.08084 ⭐️ GitHub: github.com/kesai-labs/py123d Monumental effort led by @danieldauner.bsky.social to accelerate open-source AV research.
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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World Modeling for Physical AI
From simulation to representation learning, predictive control, and beyond
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Another fantastic post from @kashyap7x.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kashyap7...
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World Modeling for Physical AI
From simulation to representation learning, predictive control, and beyond
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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World Modeling for Physical AI
From simulation to representation learning, predictive control, and beyond
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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
MolmoAct 2 is a foundation built for others to study, deploy, & customize. 📝 Learn more in our blog: allenai.org/blog/molmoact2 🤖 Models: huggingface.co/collections/... 📊 Training dataset: huggingface.co/collections/...
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MolmoAct 2: An open foundation for robots that work in the real world | Ai2
MolmoAct 2 is a fully open robotics foundation model that brings faster, stronger 3D action reasoning to real-world robot tasks, alongside a major new bimanual manipulation dataset for researchers to ...
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Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
📣 ELLIS | ELLIOT Summer School on Autonomous Driving 🚗 Super happy to announce the hottest event this summer. Apply now! 📅 September 15-18, 2026 📍Barcelona, Spain 🌐 pages.cvc.uab.es/ssadriving/ @ellis.eu, ELLIS-Barcelona, CVC-Barcelona, @valeoai.bsky.social ai.bsky.social, @elliot-eu.bsky.social
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OpenDriveLab @opendrivelab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🌍 WorldEngine: Towards the Era of Post-Training for Physical AI 🎯 A post-training framework for Physical AI that systematically addresses the long-tail safety-critical data scarcity problem in autonomous driving. Github: github.com/OpenDriveLab... Project Page: opendrivelab.com/WorldEngine/
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GitHub - OpenDriveLab/WorldEngine: WorldEngine: Towards the Era of Post-Training for Physical AI
WorldEngine: Towards the Era of Post-Training for Physical AI - OpenDriveLab/WorldEngine
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Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🌍WorldEngine is one of the most exciting projects in AD in the past years! It's a post-training framework tackling the scarcity of long-tail safety-critical scenarios by: mining -> 3DGS reconstruction and dynamic agents control w/ behavior world models -> RL post-training. Blog, code and data are up
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Kyutai @kyutai-labs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We're releasing OVIE, a novel view generation model trained entirely on single images. No multi-view datasets needed. Given a single image, it generates novel views of any scene in real time, running orders of magnitude faster than competing approaches.
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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
MolmoBot, our open robotic manipulation suite trained entirely in simulation, now has code, training data, a data generation pipeline, & evals all available. This puts our robotics models within reach of any research lab—no extensive real-world data collection required. 🧵
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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Following the success of the EurIPS and NeurIPS-Mexico City pilots in 2025, we are thrilled to announce two official NeurIPS 2026 satellite events for this year! These will be held in Paris, France and Atlanta, USA, respectively, running alongside the main venue in Sydney, Australia.
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2025 Conference
The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Naver AI has put the word "World" into "World Models", at least on a metropolis scale: A world model for Seoul using Naver Maps (the Seoul capital area is 25.6 million people, btw.). seoul-world-model.github.io arxiv.org/abs/2603.15583 @jnhwkim.bsky.social
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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Today, a step forward in open robotics - our results show that sim-to-real zero shot transfer for manipulation is possible. MolmoBot is our open model suite for robotics, trained entirely in simulation on MolmoSpaces.🧵
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Nicklas Hansen @ncklashansen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Interested in ✨world models✨? I just open-sourced an implementation of the Dreamer 4 world model. It's in PyTorch and comes with a pretrained model + a neat little web interface that lets you interact with any of 30 DMControl tasks that I trained it on! Link: github.com/nicklashanse...
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Tzu-Mao Li @tzumaoli.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tzli/novelt... I gave an internal talk at UCSD last year regarding "novelty" in computer science research. In it I "debunked" some of the myth people seem to have about what is good research in computer science these days. People seemed to like it, so I thought I should share.
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Simple and efficient transformer based end-to-end driving. If we could give out another innovation award for NAVSIM, it would go to this work! valeoai.github.io/driving-on-r...
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Driving on Registers
Driving on Registers: Simple and efficient transformer based end-to-end driving
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
While we also hype the moderation features, I'm really excited about the paper discovery tools @mariaa.bsky.social and I are starting to build. Open social means we can bootstrap onto existing discussions that are happening
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Wrapping up 2025 with a review of some recent work, led by several amazing students and collaborators: Yixuan Pan, Ruoyi Qiao, @jiazhiyang.bsky.social, Shuhan Tan, Brayden Zhang, Shihao Li, @longpollehn.bsky.social, Peter Karkus, and @maxigl.bsky.social! kashyap7x.substack.com/p/2025-resea...
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2025 Research Wrap-Up
Seven research contributions from this fall spanning heterogeneous datasets, latent reasoning, constrained trajectory diffusion, and robust driving policies
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Wrapping up 2025 with a review of some recent work, led by several amazing students and collaborators: Yixuan Pan, Ruoyi Qiao, @jiazhiyang.bsky.social, Shuhan Tan, Brayden Zhang, Shihao Li, @longpollehn.bsky.social, Peter Karkus, and @maxigl.bsky.social! kashyap7x.substack.com/p/2025-resea...
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2025 Research Wrap-Up
Seven research contributions from this fall spanning heterogeneous datasets, latent reasoning, constrained trajectory diffusion, and robust driving policies
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Bernhard Jaeger @bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Our new E2E driving method, TransFuser v6, is out on ArXiv. It outperforms all other methods on CARLA by a wide margin, 95 DS on Bench2Drive! We show that minimizing the asymmetry between data annotator and policy is key for strong IL results. Code, models, and paper: ln2697.github.io/lead/
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Kashyap Chitta @kashyap7x.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Towards Physical AI
Documenting my research progress as it happens
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