As part of the award ceremony, VQA team presented a recap of vision-and-language research over the last decade — solved problems, progress, and open-challenges for mutimodal LLMs.

VQA challenge series won the Mark Everingham prize at #ICCV2025 for stimulating a new strand of vision-and-language research. It's extra special because ICCV25 marks the 10-year anniversary of the VQA paper. When we started, the idea of answering any question about any image seemed outlandish.

The problem with “AI slop” isn’t the AI — it’s the slop. People act like AI is the issue, when it’s actually part of the fix. If we're honest: most of what we make, most of the time, is slop by our own standards. That’s the generator–discriminator gap in creative work that Ira Glass talks about.

It is so refreshing to see conferences innovate on the reviewing model and run actual experiments (!) as opposed to fighting change.

My entire robotics career has led to this.

The answer to many "why X?" questions: Because the laws of physics do not prohibit X and the forces of biology gave us curiosity.

I started something new last year with a wonderful group of people. We showed a demo in Jan. Today, we’re telling our story — show before you talk! 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦-𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘣 — one of humanity’s greatest inventions and a a mess overdue for an overhaul. yutori.com

📢Excited to announce our upcoming workshop - Vision Language Models For All: Building Geo-Diverse and Culturally Aware Vision-Language Models (VLMs-4-All) @CVPR 2025! 🌐 sites.google.com/view/vlms4all

Using a locally-running LLM to translate a review is explicitly prohibited by @iccv.bsky.social Why? Whom does this possibly harm?

Brilliant talk by Ilya, but he's wrong on one point. We are NOT running out of data. We are running out of human-written text. We have more videos than we know what to do with. We just haven't solved pre-training in vision. Just go out and sense the world. Data is easy.

3.2 —> 3.3 See, model naming isn't that hard.

Looking forward to #NeurIPS2024 next week! If you work in digital or physical AI agents, I'm scheduling chats (Dec 9-12). DMs open.

Does the term "LLM" mean: — a language model in the technical sense — a "modern" AI system — an auto-regressive symbol-sequence models, built with transformers, trained with SGD and self-supervised learning — something else? dhruvbatra.substack.com/p/the-term-l...