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Oct 2026 Released ZAP (arXiv), accepted to CoRL 2026 (Late-Breaking Results). A small open VLM trained only in simulation matches GPT-6 Astra on real-world robot tasks.
Mar 2026 Luma released Uni-1, our unified model for image understanding and generation. I owned temporal reasoning and character consistency in pretraining, and RL for legible text rendering.
Dec 2025 GRPO learns mostly from hard examples: training on the hardest 10% gives up to 47% gains, and only hard examples improve on AIME 2025. Hard Examples Are All You Need at the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Efficient Reasoning.
Sep 2025 Joined Luma AI as a research scientist.
Jul 2025 New paper on conditioning diffusion models for synthetic data: Understanding Trade-offs When Conditioning Synthetic Data.
Dec 2024 AbeT, our out-of-distribution detection method, accepted to the NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty.
Feb 2024 Presenting our analysis of reward-model robustness under distribution shift at an AAAI 2024 workshop.
May 2023 Presenting calibration for zero-shot vision-language models at the ICLR 2023 Workshop on Trustworthy ML.