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"Fast Foundation Stereo: When Foundation Models Meet Efficient Stereo Matching" TL;DR: distills stereo foundation models into an efficient real-time stereo matching framework, preserving high accuracy while dramatically reducing inference cost.

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Molly O’Shea

14,162 views • 2 months ago

Foundation models are enough to solve robotics! Unfortunately, this is not true. We keep hearing that Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models struggle because of the gap between static training and the dynamic real world. A German startup (Sereact) just released a solution that bridges this gap perfectly. They are introducing a new paradigm called Interactive RL Policy Patching. It's a distributed framework that allows robots to self-learn from human corrections without needing full retraining. When a robot fails, a human operator provides a brief "patch" or demonstration. The system then uses online off-policy reinforcement learning to update the behavior instantly. This is powered by a massive foundation model trained on hundreds of millions of interactions from over 100 deployed robot stations. The best part is the distributed parameter synchronization... When one robot learns a fix, the update is published fleet-wide... meaning the entire swarm gets smarter from a single human intervention. They are already proving this on complex manipulation tasks like shoe unboxing and screw sorting, drastically reducing the data needed to handle edge cases. Real-world environments are unforgiving, and I love seeing systems that can actually adapt on the fly! 📍 More info:

Foundation models are enough to solve robotics! Unfortunately, this is not true. We keep hearing that Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models struggle because of the gap between static training and the dynamic real world. A German startup (Sereact) just released a solution that bridges this gap perfectly. They are introducing a new paradigm called Interactive RL Policy Patching. It's a distributed framework that allows robots to self-learn from human corrections without needing full retraining. When a robot fails, a human operator provides a brief "patch" or demonstration. The system then uses online off-policy reinforcement learning to update the behavior instantly. This is powered by a massive foundation model trained on hundreds of millions of interactions from over 100 deployed robot stations. The best part is the distributed parameter synchronization... When one robot learns a fix, the update is published fleet-wide... meaning the entire swarm gets smarter from a single human intervention. They are already proving this on complex manipulation tasks like shoe unboxing and screw sorting, drastically reducing the data needed to handle edge cases. Real-world environments are unforgiving, and I love seeing systems that can actually adapt on the fly! 📍 More info:

Ilir Aliu

18,210 views • 7 months ago

I used NotebookLM to study Google new breakthrough with TurboQuant and used Video overview to study the subject, best learning tool in the world at the moment. TurboQuant: Redefining AI Efficiency with Extreme Compression Google Research has introduced TurboQuant, a suite of advanced algorithms designed to dramatically compress the data used by large language models and search engines. By utilizing specialized techniques like PolarQuant and Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss, the system transforms complex information into a compact "shorthand" that requires significantly less memory. This innovation specifically addresses the key-value cache bottleneck, allowing AI models to process massive amounts of text faster without losing accuracy. Testing demonstrates that these methods can shrink data size by six times while actually increasing operational speed on high-end hardware. Ultimately, these theoretical advancements enable more efficient semantic search and high-performance AI applications at a global scale.

I used NotebookLM to study Google new breakthrough with TurboQuant and used Video overview to study the subject, best learning tool in the world at the moment. TurboQuant: Redefining AI Efficiency with Extreme Compression Google Research has introduced TurboQuant, a suite of advanced algorithms designed to dramatically compress the data used by large language models and search engines. By utilizing specialized techniques like PolarQuant and Quantized Johnson-Lindenstrauss, the system transforms complex information into a compact "shorthand" that requires significantly less memory. This innovation specifically addresses the key-value cache bottleneck, allowing AI models to process massive amounts of text faster without losing accuracy. Testing demonstrates that these methods can shrink data size by six times while actually increasing operational speed on high-end hardware. Ultimately, these theoretical advancements enable more efficient semantic search and high-performance AI applications at a global scale.

Emily

14,648 views • 5 months ago