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Vindula Jayawardana

@vindulaj.bsky.social
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Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute | MIT PhD

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Vindula Jayawardana @vindulaj.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Finally, this work is out!! We found that controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic across a city can cut carbon emissions between 11 and 22 percent. To do this, we used deep reinforcement learning to optimize one million eco-driving scenarios. 🚗🤖🧠
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Vindula Jayawardana @vindulaj.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Checkout our recent work on cooperative eco-driving with deep RL at city scale. #reinforcementlearning #eco-driving #autonomousvehicles
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Vindula Jayawardana @vindulaj.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Check out our recent #ICLR work!
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Cassidy Laidlaw @cassidylaidlaw.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We built an AI assistant that plays Minecraft with you. Start building a house—it figures out what you’re doing and jumps in to help. This assistant *wasn't* trained with RLHF. Instead, it's powered by *assistance games*, a better path forward for building AI assistants. 🧵
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We've built a simulated driving agent that we trained on 1.6 billion km of driving with no human data. It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried. In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.
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