Kiana Ehsani @ehsanik Twitter profile

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Kiana Ehsani

6 months

🚀 Imitating shortest paths in simulation enables effective navigation and manipulation in the real world. Our findings fly in the face of conventional wisdom! This is a big joint effort from PRIOR @allen_ai (6 first authors!).

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

4 years

As of a few hours ago, I'm officially a Research Scientist @allen_ai . So excited to start my career working with the amazing researchers at AI2 and PRIOR team.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

I feel awful working on the CVPR deadline and having first-world problems (like OMG my learning curves are ugly!), while my parents, who are both healthcare workers in Iran, keep getting re-infected and getting hospitalized over and over again!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

6 months

📣 I’m hiring interns for Summer 2024 @allen_ai 🚀! Interested in a cool opportunity? Read this thread! 🧵 Think it's a match? Reach out to me at kianae @allenai .org 📩 #Internship #AI #Robotics

Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

6 months

The work was done during @RchalYang 's internship @ PRIOR @allen_ai . You know what else we do during our internships after doing cool projects? We go on boat rides :D

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

1 year

Introducing our new approach for building robust robots: Phone2Proc! @CVPR 23 Want to boost your sim-to-real agent’s performance from 34% to 70% WITHOUT any real-world finetuning? Are you tired of agents’ poor performance in complex real-world environments?This thread is for you!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Working on CVPR camera-ready with a tiny bit of disturbance... #cvpr2021

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

1 year

At PRIOR @allen_ai , we are working at the X of robotics & CV to build the next generation of household robots. We work on ambitious projects and push boundaries in this field. If you’re interested in being a part of this team, join us! Reach out to me directly! #hiring #tech

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Since I moved to the US 7 years ago, I have been going through a lot. Not seeing my family for years, having to leave friends behind, going through an identity crisis as an immigrant,... All this time, I tried to cheer myself by remembering why I immigrated.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

1 year

Received an email today from the NZ embassy after 5 months of waiting! They are asking if I'm still going to @corl_conf (happened mid-December last year). Always fun to have an Iranian passport! P.S. I still managed to co-organize a workshop, give a talk & join a panel remotely!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Last week at #ECCV2022 , I published a first-author paper. Unfortunately, I didn't get to present it in person. With everything going on in life, I forgot to let Twitter know about our project. The idea is to relax the sensory information for mobile object manipulation.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

7 months

🤖 #RoboticsAI #RobotLearning ! Are we targeting the right robotic tasks? Industrial or home application? Let's dive deep at the CoRL’23 Workshop, Nov 6, 8:30am-12:30pm EST, Hub 1 @corl_conf , Atlanta. Don't miss the flaming debate at 11:50am! 🔥

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Checkout our #cvpr22 paper. Embodied agents need to have a rich representation of the environment they are interacting with. This can be in the form of a scene representation encoding the relationships of the entities in the room.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Very happy to announce the Embodied AI Lecture Series @ PRIOR A live lecture and discussion series in Embodied AI with a focus on cross-disciplinary work. Lectures held biweekly Fri 11am PST. Open to all! #embodiedai @allenai Details:

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Finally a real hooded doctor after 2 years. Thanks to my advisors for coaching me for 5 + 2 years and counting... 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

Roozbeh Mottaghi

@RoozbehMottaghi

2 years

Co-hooding the first co-advised PhD student. Congratulations @ehsanik 🎓🥳 (btw I forgot to bring my own hood)

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

In PNW we do our brainstorming sessions in remote cabins with the view of the cascades. How do you do yours? #humblebrag An amazing 15-hour day off-site with PRIOR @allen_ai . (Don't worry it wasn't all working. We also had fun activities and games.)

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

The first season of Embodied AI Lecture Series came to an end last Friday, with a total of 12 amazing speakers, talking about different perspectives towards embodied AI. Message me if you have any suggestions on potential speakers for the next chapter :)

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

4 years

Check out our new work (with Daniel Gordon, Dieter Fox and Ali Farhadi) on unsupervised representation learning from unlabeled YouTube videos. We demonstrate improvements over recent unsupervised techniques and fully supervised ImageNet pretraining.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Have you been looking for a framework for visual object manipulation and navigation? Do you need diverse cluttered photo-realistic environments for your manipulation experiments? Search no more! Introducing ManipulaTHOR, our virtual agent with a highly articulated robotic arm.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

@ Computer Vision Community: What is the RSS of Computer Vision? (i.e., a small conference where all the talks are high quality, limited partying involved and you actually get to have meaningful productive research conversations and initialize collaborations)

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

7 months

I was supposed to be on vacation enjoying my parents' company, but the @CVPR deadline got extended. At least I'm grateful for having fun colleagues who make this unexpected change of plans (aka one more week of zero-sleep-ten-coffee-a-day) enjoyable!

Ani Kembhavi

@anikembhavi

7 months

Deadline week @allen_ai for #CVPR2024 . While the last few days always add a bit of stress, working with this incredible team is so enjoyable and rewarding! Where is the rest of the team ? At their desks, refusing to join us for dinner 😀

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

We are back with a new chapter of Embodied AI Lecture Series @ PRIOR @allen_ai ! Our first lecture, by @Ken_Goldberg , is happening next week on Friday, Feb 18th at 11 am. Subscribe to our mailing list to receive more information.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

1 year

Do you want to know how we trained end-to-end RGB-Only robots that navigate remarkably efficient in indoor environments without any real-world fine-tuning? Come to our poster @CVPR #137 #CVPR2023 ! Starting Now! W/ @anikembhavi @LucaWeihs @mattdeitke Rose Hendrix and Ali Farhadi

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

#CVPR2022 Discussing the "potential negative impacts" of one of our submissions: Me: I really can't think of anything! What could this work possibly negatively impact? Co-author: My mental health! Me [thinking]: Oh, in that case... I have so much to write...!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

One of the biggest goals was for more freedom, especially as a woman in a country with extremely sexist lawmakers. Seeing what US lawmakers did on Friday makes me reconsider my decision. This was truly a sad day for America. A new low...

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

4 years

Most representation learning works these days focus on contrastive approaches. What if we considered human attention and muscle movements as a supervisory signal? Check out our new large-scale dataset and representation learning approach. Paper:

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

1 year

It's difficult to send your daughter to school every day without knowing if she'll make it back home safely or if you'll end up rushing to the hospital because her entire class got poisoned. Unfortunately, this is the reality in Iran right now.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Seattle Rocks! --------------- Seattle First Major US City to Fully Vaccinate 70% of Residents 12+

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Sometimes I wish coding and climbing were a better combination... Coding with scarred fingers after crack climbing is painful! #ClimbingIsNotGoodForYourHealth #GirlsWhoCodeAndClimb

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

1 year

Find yourself a robot that stares at you affectionately, just like mine does! I was cleaning the random snapshots my robot had saved and found this photo! It's cute/creepy that it's staring at me even when I'm not paying attention to it!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

6 months

The work was done during @RchalYang 's internship @ PRIOR @allen_ai . You know what else we do during our internships after doing cool projects? We go on boat rides :D

Ruihan Yang

@RchalYang

6 months

Checkout more details on our website: Joint work with Yejin Kim, @anikembhavi , @xiaolonw , @ehsanik . During my great internship at PRIOR @allen_ai

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Before every conference deadline, I want to quit research forever and abandon coding, writing papers, making figures. And after of them, (Not hours after! Just milliseconds after we submit.) I fall back in love. #ICCV2021 #AdrenalineRush

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

One of the things I really enjoy is listening to Persian Dance Music while working close to deadlines. It truly boosts my morale! Even if the world's collapsing and nothing's going according to the plan! So if you see me slightly dancing while writing papers, that's why!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Indeed heroes of the year... They just redefined bravery!

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@TIME

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The Women of Iran are TIME's 2022 Heroes of the Year #TIMEPOY

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2 years

It just makes me sad. Makes me remember my privileges and how it's only out of LUCK that I have what I have today. Makes me think about the classmates who are smarter and more qualified than me and are protesting in Iran and risking their lives right now.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Exciting news! Check out our award winning work at our poster session @ #NeurIPS2022 if you're going to NOLA :)

Luca Weihs

@LucaWeihs

2 years

Excited to see that our work on ProcTHOR has won a #NeurIPS2022 Outstanding Paper award! This was a team effort but a huge shout out to Matt Deitke who really drove the work ()!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

7 months

Jetting across the continent for a 24-hour adventure to @corl_conf ✈️. In Atlanta on Monday? Let's connect! 🤝 #CoRL2023 P.S. Hiring interns for summer 2024! Curious about what we've been cooking up? 😁🤫🔥🍳 #PunIntended #HiringNow

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Wait, WHAT? How did this happen? It has been 1 year already??? Am I just enjoying my time at @allen_ai and that's why I can't feel the time anymore :D? Seriously though, how is that possible?

Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

4 years

As of a few hours ago, I'm officially a Research Scientist @allen_ai . So excited to start my career working with the amazing researchers at AI2 and PRIOR team.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

11 months

Reach for the stars! 🌟 Our 800K-object Objaverse unlocked new horizons. Now, we're aiming higher with Objaverse-XL: the largest known 3D dataset with 10M assets!

Matt Deitke

@mattdeitke

11 months

Introducing Objaverse-XL, an open dataset of over 10 million 3D objects! With it, we train Zero123-XL, a foundation model for 3D, observing incredible 3D generalization abilities: 🧵👇 📝 Paper:

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

4 years

CVPR's deadline nights are not fun anymore when everything is virtual! I appreciate pre-covid era even more now! Good old days when we could all work from the same place!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

And there's literally nothing I can do about it! How do people cope with the stress of their family's wellbeing these days?

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

4 years

Excited to share our work (with @shubhtuls , Saurabh Gupta, Ali Farhadi, and Abhinav Gupta), on predicting the physical forces from RGB videos. The work was done during my internship at FAIR. Don't miss out our talk at CVPR2020 (if it happens😀) PDF:

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

It was also a reminder of how HARD it is to be a girl! Equal pay? Heh! We're still dealing with more basic things here! Like whether I am forced to have another human being grow inside me and change my life and career forever!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

It felt weird being on the other side of the mentoring table at @WiCVworkshop @cvpr . Joining as a mentee 5 years ago helped me a lot to find myself as a researcher and to become who I am today.

WiCV

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2 years

#WiCV Snapshots from our social dinner event @CVPR We would like to thank our keynote speakers, all mentors and mentees for attending and for sharing their experiences!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

4 months

This is by far one of the coolest demos I have ever seen! I personally witnessed some of the video recordings and I can attest it is NOT cherry picked! @SongShuran and her team doing amazing work like always!

Cheng Chi

@chichengcc

4 months

Can we collect robot data without any robots? Introducing Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) An open-source $400 system from @Stanford designed to democratize robot data collection 0 teleop -> autonomously wash dishes (precise), toss (dynamic), and fold clothes (bimanual)

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Kiana Ehsani

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2 years

A reminder that I owe it to my people,... OWE it, to be their voice. Even if it's to my small academic network. #MahsaAmini

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

1 year

Lesson of the day: don't make funny faces in the company's photos! Your colleagues might turn them into slack emojis! #ThisIsWhyILoveMyJob #MyColleaguesAreTheBest

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

4 years

#CVPR2020 is over! And yes, there was no "real" networking event, and sure, not many people showed up for Q&As. But this was my most productive CVPR as an attendee. I loved that I could teleport between workshops and/or watch the recorded videos whenever I want.

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Kiana Ehsani

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2 years

We are starting the new series of Embodied AI Lecture Series @ PRIOR @allen_ai . Message me if you have any suggestions for the invited speakers or the topics you'd like us to cover.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Her crime? Not completely wearing her hair with Hijab. Read the last sentence again. It’s not “not wearing her hair”, it’s “not completely wearing her hair”. It’s not “was forced to pay a fine”, it’s “was murdered”.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

I gave a talk on one of my research projects last night in an improv comedy show! This was one of the coolest events I've ever been a part of. Super creative comedians do an improv show on the presented works. Thank you for hosting me @BanditScience @CaroDuncombe

Mad Science - Bandit Theater

@BanditScience

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What does the dog see? @ehsanik

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

4 years

Presenting our work at virtual #CVPR2020 (with @shubhtuls , S. Gupta, A. Farhadi, and A. Gupta), on predicting the grasping points and physical forces from videos. Q&A: Tomorrow at 10am and 10pm PST Video: Project page: #cvpr20

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

1 year

@rdesh26 F1 process for Iranians: - filling application : ~ 1 hour - trying to book interview slot: 2-3 months (if lucky) - standing in line at embassy: ~ 2 hours - interviewing: < 3 minutes - AP: 3-12 months* (sometimes years...) *Can be rejected with no explanation!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Then I open my academic twitter. Someone just published a paper on a new topic. Someone just found a new model for a task. Someone just got their PhD. Someone released a new framework. Nothing wrong with it and I'm happy for/proud of all of them/you. But...

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 months

Sim2Real! Sim2Real! Sim2Real! After years of seeing push back against sim2real in my robotics journey, it's awesome to see more and more research proving how cool Sim2Real is! Big shoutout to @xiaolonw for their amazing work showing off Sim2Real in humanoid robotics! 🤖 #sim2real

Xiaolong Wang

@xiaolonw

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Let’s think about humanoid robots outside carrying the box. How about having the humanoid come out the door, interact with humans, and even dance? Introducing Expressive Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Robots: See how our robot performs rich, diverse,

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Kiana Ehsani

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3 years

Instead of scrolling twitter up and down, searching for papers on @SemanticScholar or Google, or searching for most discussed papers, for this CVPR #CVPR2021 , I'm trying CVPR Buzz by Matt Deitke. And I LOVE IT!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

5 years

My colleague ( @Mitchnw ) and I made an astonishing scientific discovery a year ago but we never published it. I guess it's time to share it with the community. This phenomenon happens every year from November 8th-15th.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Tomorrow (Monday) at 9am PST, I’ll be presenting our recent work “What Can You Learn from Your Muscles? Learning Visual Representation from Human Interactions” @iclr_conf #iclr2021 . Stop by our poster zoom for a chat about this work (or how virtual conferences are not fun! 😒).

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Now I'm totally tempted to do another Ph.D.! Ana is gonna be the best advisor one can wish for. And not just in doing amazing research but also being a fabulous cool energetic kind 😎 human being! Can't wait to explore Utah's ⛷️🧗‍♀️🗻🏔️ with you :)

Ana Marasović

@anmarasovic

2 years

Some good news! I'm joining the University of Utah @UUtah @UtahSoC as an Assistant Professor this summer. I'm excited I'll be part of the U's NLP group and work alongside @viveksrikumar & @EllenRiloff !

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

6 months

🤖 Navigation and Manipulation are inseparable! 🚪Opening doors & 🧹cleaning tables are possible using ONLY RGB & simulation-based training, w/ NO real-world fine-tuning 🌍 or data collection. [Done during @RchalYang 's internship @allen_ai using @hellorobotinc RE1 🤖]

Ruihan Yang

@RchalYang

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How to tackle complex household tasks like opening doors, and cleaning tables in real? Introducing HarmonicMM: Our latest model seamlessly combines navigation and manipulation, enabling robots to tackle household tasks using only RGB visual observation and robot proprioception.

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@ehsanik

2 years

ProcTHOR doesn't need advertising! It speaks for itself. Just check out the demo, or train a model with it. You'll see why we are very proud of this work! Unlimited rooms, unlimited configurations!

Roozbeh Mottaghi

@RoozbehMottaghi

2 years

Massive datasets have enabled many recent advancements in computer vision and NLP. ProcTHOR presents a platform to enable similar success stories in Robotics and Embodied AI in general. ProcTHOR website: Details:

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Kiana Ehsani

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5 years

Checkout our oral presentation at CVPR19 tomorrow at 15:10 in Oral B, (link: ) #CVPR19 @Mitchnw @RoozbehMottaghi @morastegari

Learning to Learn How to Learn: Self-Adaptive Visual Navigation...

Learning is an inherently continuous phenomenon. When humans learn a new task there is no explicit distinction between training and inference. As we learn a task, we keep learning about it while...

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

1 year

"I'm not fearlessly brave, but I don't have time to let fear affect my life. We only get one shot. It's a gift to live." - Ida Kaller-Vincent, an awe-inspiring researcher and climber who battled lung cancer twice.

A Journey Through Cancer & Resilience

In this feature from Mountaineer magazine, author Kiana Ehsani interviews longtime Mountaineer Ida Kaller-Vincent on how Ida has adapted to climbing with significantly reduced lung capacity after...

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Check out our recent work on evaluating self-supervised representation models. We examine over 700 training experiments including 30 encoders, 4 pre-training datasets, and 20 diverse downstream tasks.

Roozbeh Mottaghi

@RoozbehMottaghi

3 years

Are we using the right metrics to measure progress on self-supervised representation learning? Should we discard an encoder that doesn't provide a good initialization for ImageNet classification? We try to answer these types of questions: Kotar, et al.

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3 years

Today I bumped up my comfort speed for listening to audiobooks/podcasts/videos to 2.5x (from 2x). Fascinated by how our brains can adapt if we make slow changes!

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@ehsanik

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I was one of the *so many*. Couldn't agree more! (For us Iranians there was a travel ban in effect too! For 4/5 years of my student life )

Ana Marasović

@anmarasovic

1 year

This point is never mentioned: There are *so many* international grad students "stuck" in the US because they might be denied re-entrance / renewing their travel visa would take forever. Their only chance of presenting in person is that occasionally conferences are in the US.

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Our planners have full observability. Exploration is just an emergent behavior! (Really surprising, I know!) Remarkably, the agent learns to explore and backtrack (see website examples). Here is a sample training trajectory.

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@ehsanik @allen_ai How do you have it learn to explore from shortest paths? Are you using some kind of pomdp planner in simulation?

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5 years

An amazing blog post by @jeffbigham about Mechanical Turk. Highly recommended, especially if you are planning on doing an MTurk experiment anytime soon.

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8 months

Another death, ... One year later, same reason, same place! By the way, do you know what happened to the two girls who photographed the parents mourning their daughter's loss last year? Today they got their sentence! Collectively 25 years of jail. Such a sad day for Iran...

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1 year

Looking to scale up in 3D vision, embodied AI, or generative models? Objaverse has got your back! Access high-quality 3D objects for free and with ease via @huggingface . #scaling #AI #CVPR2023

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Introducing Objaverse, a massive open dataset of text-paired 3D objects! Nearly 1 million annotated 3D objects to pave the way to build incredible large-scale 3D generative models: 🧵👇 🤗 Hugging Face: 📝ArXiv: #CVPR2023

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When they talk about the lines of code one's written in a programming language do they only count the lines written conciously? If not, I might have the world record for python! Close to deadlines I rewrite my projects in my dreams over and over and over...

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@ehsanik

4 years

We are hiring interns for summer 2021. Check out the cool projects we are working on and feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

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@allen_ai

4 years

Applications are now open for summer 2021 internships with the PRIOR (computer vision) team at AI2! Join a creative team working at the forefront of #computervision research and tech for the common good. Deadline to apply: Nov 20, 2020 Apply here:

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Tomorrow, we are honored to host @DoctorJosh @ Embodied AI Lecture Series @ PRIOR @allen_ai . He is going to present a method that designs biological machines from the ground up: designing new machines in simulation and building them using biological tissues.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

This week on Friday (at 11 am PST) we are hosting Luca Carlone @lucacarlone1 in our Embodied AI Lecture Series @ PRIOR @allen_ai . Subscribe here to receive the meeting link.

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@ehsanik

3 years

253 days later... He's still curious!

Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Working on CVPR camera-ready with a tiny bit of disturbance... #cvpr2021

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2 years

@yusan_lin My whole twitter feed!

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@ehsanik

5 years

Our new CVPR paper, Learning to Learn How to Learn: Self-Adaptive Visual Navigation Using Meta-Learning,

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Check out our recent ICLR work on learning visual representation from gameplay!

Luca Weihs

@LucaWeihs

3 years

What can embodied AI agents learn from gameplay? Our #ICLR2021 paper () shows that by playing hide-and-seek, agents learn representations rivaling (self-)supervised approaches. We test our agent's with a suite of tasks inspired by experiments for infants.

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@ehsanik

3 years

Join us for Summer'22 internships. Message me if you are interested in hearing more about our Embodied AI Research. We have exciting new research directions!

Ani Kembhavi

@anikembhavi

3 years

Applications now open for summer '22 internships with the PRIOR (computer vision) team @allen_ai We are looking for interns to work in several areas including: Embodied AI, Vision-&-Language and AI for the Common Good. Deadline: Nov 8, 2021 Apply here:

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

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We are back with our Embodied AI Lecture Series @ PRIOR @allen_ai . Tomorrow, we are honored to host Nick Cheney. This session might be different from what you normally expect of an E-AI talk. Nick is going to explain how an "agent's body" contributes to its "intelligent behavior".

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

1 year

Look who's finally here! @mattdeitke The cloud button is for expressing objections (comments), the heart button is for saying you approve (like), and the arrows are for promoting other people's ideas (retweet). Here goes your first tutorial! :D You're welcome!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Well, I am not surprised that @SongShuran won the best paper award. Again! Congratulations Shuran and the team. 🎉

Robotics: Science and Systems

@RoboticsSciSys

2 years

Big congrats to the winners (and the finalists!) of the #RSS2022 awards: - Best paper award: - Best systems paper award: - Best student paper award:

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

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Different scenarios, different behaviors, right? 🤔 So why not have one model that adapts to what you need instead of building a new one each time? 🚀 That's what we did! Had a blast working with Minyoung on this 👩‍🔬👨‍💻. Oh, and she's hunting for a Ph.D. program now! 🎓

Minyoung Hwang

@robominyoung

6 months

We only train once: How can we effectively customize a robot for multiple users? We propose 'Promptable Behaviors', a novel personalization framework that deals with diverse preferences without any retraining. website: paper: 🧵👇

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

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If you notice any of us, Iranian colleagues, seeming emotional at work, don't ask anything unless you're prepared for a waterfall of tears. Sharing the pain with the women in Iran...

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Stop by our poster for a discussion! Happening now at #150 .

Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Checkout our #cvpr22 paper. Embodied agents need to have a rich representation of the environment they are interacting with. This can be in the form of a scene representation encoding the relationships of the entities in the room.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

You might consider rotating a vector by 90 degrees as a super easy calculation for an AI agent (w/o explicit supervision w/ deepnets)! The news is it's not as easy as you'd think! And yet some people are worried AI might overtake us? LOL! #DebuggingAIModelsHurts

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Just a reminder that if you'd like to receive the link for this Friday's meeting, today is the last day to subscribe to our mailing list (). Speaker: @DhruvBatraDB Title: Do Blind AI Navigation Agents Build Maps? Time: Friday May14th 11am PST

Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Very happy to announce the Embodied AI Lecture Series @ PRIOR A live lecture and discussion series in Embodied AI with a focus on cross-disciplinary work. Lectures held biweekly Fri 11am PST. Open to all! #embodiedai @allenai Details:

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

6 months

🌟What I’m offering: A fantastic internship @ PRIOR @allen_ai 🤩. Experience a beautiful summer in Seattle ☀️, get hands-on mentorship, work on cool project and meet awesome people at AI2 and UW! 🤝

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

5 years

18 days left to CVPR2020 deadline, and guess what? There are already more than 3000 submissions!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Come work with us. We have a lot of interesting ongoing projects. Message me if you are interested to learn more.

Ani Kembhavi

@anikembhavi

2 years

Applications open for a 1-2 yr Computer Vision residency @allen_ai -Partner with strong mentors -Engage in impactful research -Author papers at top venues -Boost your grad school application Importantly, enjoy a collaborative and supportive environment.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

4 years

As one of the first users of this framework, I can say it is very easy to use and you should definitely give it a try if you are working on embodied AI.

Allen Institute for AI

@allen_ai

4 years

AI2 is proud to announce our new #embodiedAI framework AllenAct! This library offers free, open, first-class support for a growing collection of embodied environments, tasks, and algorithms, plus reproductions of state-of-the-art #AI models. Learn more:

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

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And on top of it all, we have a really cool team! ☕️👩‍🔬👨‍💻 How often do you find colleagues ( @tanmay2099 ) who make you beautiful latte art? 🎨🤖 #TeamCulture #MoreThanResearch

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

It's just time-consuming to check the snow fall / weather trends every time you wanna go touring and you might miss some important weather history that has resulted in unstable snow layers beneath the surface.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

I started my talk by acknowledging the fight for freedom in Iran. That's what my Tshirt says as well. Be the voice of people in Iran, especially our brave women. No matter what you do or where you work, every single voice matters!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Just watched the keynote talk from @iclr_conf . Not only a great informative talk on interesting topics but also changed my whole perspective on online talks. I'm re-evaluating how I think about making a conference talk! Amazing lecture by @mmbronstein

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

Who said roboticists are not cool?

Victoria Dean

@vdean314

2 years

I showed off my locomotion skills for @RoboticsSciSys last night. Should we make the worm a new benchmark?

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

2 years

I'm attending #RSS2022 in NYC. HMU if you're here and would like to chat.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

Have you ever thought of turning mobile phones into robots? If yes, join us TOMORROW (FRIDAY 23rd) at 11am PST @allen_ai PRIOR E-AI Lecture Series. We are honored to host Matthias Müller from Intel. He will talk about leveraging smartphones to equip robots with extensive sensors.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

6 months

🧑Popular Opinion: Simulation is not enough and real-world fine-tuning is a must. 🔭Our Finding: SPOC, trained in simulation only transfers remarkably well to the real world. No adaptation, No fine tuning.

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

-"After AlexNet took first place in the ImageNet Challenge, everybody of a certain age went through the five stages of grief." I constantly try to think about what is the "AlexNet of the day" and what I might be grieving through denial :)

Michael Black

@Michael_J_Black

3 years

I've loved #ICCV since my first one in 1990. In this blog post, I reflect on the last 31 years of ICCV and the field of computer vision. Hopefully you enjoy this on the last day of #ICCV2021 . See you in Paris in 2023!

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Kiana Ehsani

@ehsanik

3 years

@sy_gadre Congratulations on your first Ph.D. publication. Here's to many more🥂. #ICCV21 Check out the work. We have exciting real-world experiments.

samir gadre

@sy_gadre

3 years

excited to share Act the Part (AtP), a framework to learn how to interact with articulated objects to discover and segment their parts! arxiv: website w/ demo: joint work w/ . @ehsanik and . @SongShuran 1/5

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