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Achal Dave

21 accepted papers

2026

OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models

ICLR 2026oral

Reasoning models have made rapid progress on many benchmarks involving math, code, and science. Yet, there are still many open questions about the best train- ing recipes for reasoning since state-of-the-art models often rely on proprietary datasets with little to no public information available. To…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

AllTracker: Efficient Dense Point Tracking at High Resolution

ICCV 2025poster

We introduce AllTracker: a model that estimates long-range point tracks by way of estimating the flow field between a query frame and every other frame of a video. Unlike existing point tracking methods, our approach delivers high-resolution and dense (all-pixel) correspondence fields, which can be…

2025

Language models scale reliably with over-training and on downstream tasks

ICLR 2025poster

Scaling laws are useful guides for derisking expensive training runs, as they predict performance of large models using cheaper, small-scale experiments. However, there remain gaps between current scaling studies and how language models are ultimately trained and evaluated. For instance, scaling is…

2025

Should VLMs be Pre-trained with Image Data?

ICLR 2025poster

Pre-trained LLMs that are further trained with image data perform well on vision-language tasks. While adding images during a second training phase effectively unlocks this capability, it is unclear how much of a gain or loss this two-step pipeline gives over VLMs which integrate images earlier int…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Understanding Complexity in VideoQA via Visual Program Generation

ICML 2025poster

We propose a data-driven approach to analyzing query complexity in Video Question Answering (VideoQA). Previous efforts in benchmark design have relied on human expertise to design challenging questions, yet we experimentally show that humans struggle to predict which questions are difficult for mac…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models

NeurIPS 2024poster

We introduce DataComp for Language Models, a testbed for controlled dataset experiments with the goal of improving language models. As part of DCLM, we provide a standardized corpus of 240T tokens extracted from Common Crawl, effective pretraining recipes based on the OpenLM framework, and a broad s…

Cited by 64SourcePDFScholar
2024

Dreamitate: Real-World Visuomotor Policy Learning via Video Generation

CoRL 2024poster

A key challenge in manipulation is learning a policy that can robustly generalize to diverse visual environments. A promising mechanism for learning robust policies is to leverage video generative models, which are pretrained on large-scale datasets of internet videos. In this paper, we propose a vi…

Cited by 26SourceScholar
2024

Generative Camera Dolly: Extreme Monocular Dynamic Novel View Synthesis

ECCV 2024oral

"Accurate reconstruction of complex dynamic scenes from just a single viewpoint continues to be a challenging task in computer vision. Current dynamic novel view synthesis methods typically require videos from many different camera viewpoints, necessitating careful recording setups, and significantl…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2024

Understanding Video Transformers via Universal Concept Discovery

CVPR 2024highlight

This paper studies the problem of concept-based interpretability of transformer representations for videos. Concretely we seek to explain the decision-making process of video transformers based on high-level spatiotemporal concepts that are automatically discovered. Prior research on concept-based i…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2024

Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Tracking with Large Pre-Trained Models

ICRA 2024poster

Object tracking is central to robot perception and scene understanding, allowing robots to parse a video stream in terms of moving objects with names. Tracking-by-detection has long been a dominant paradigm for object tracking of specific object categories [1], [2]. Recently, large-scale pre-trained…

Cited by 12SourceScholar
2024

pix2gestalt: Amodal Segmentation by Synthesizing Wholes

CVPR 2024highlight

We introduce pix2gestalt a framework for zero-shot amodal segmentation which learns to estimate the shape and appearance of whole objects that are only partially visible behind occlusions. By capitalizing on large-scale diffusion models and transferring their representations to this task we learn a…

2023

HandsOff: Labeled Dataset Generation With No Additional Human Annotations

CVPR 2023highlight

Recent work leverages the expressive power of genera- tive adversarial networks (GANs) to generate labeled syn- thetic datasets. These dataset generation methods often require new annotations of synthetic images, which forces practitioners to seek out annotators, curate a set of synthetic images, an…

2022

Data Determines Distributional Robustness in Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP)

ICML 2022spotlight

Contrastively trained language-image models such as CLIP, ALIGN, and BASIC have demonstrated unprecedented robustness to multiple challenging natural distribution shifts. Since these language-image models differ from previous training approaches in several ways, an important question is what causes…

2022

Differentiable Raycasting for Self-Supervised Occupancy Forecasting

ECCV 2022poster

"Motion planning for safe autonomous driving requires learning how the environment around an ego-vehicle evolves with time. Ego-centric perception of driveable regions in a scene not only changes with the motion of actors in the environment, but also with the movement of the ego-vehicle itself. Self…

2021

Do Image Classifiers Generalize Across Time?

ICCV 2021poster

Vision models notoriously flicker when applied to videos: they correctly recognize objects in some frames, but fail on perceptually similar, nearby frames. In this work, we systematically analyze the robustness of image classifiers to such temporal perturbations in videos. To do so, we construct two…

Cited by 93PDFcodeScholar
2020

Measuring Robustness to Natural Distribution Shifts in Image Classification

NeurIPS 2020spotlight

We study how robust current ImageNet models are to distribution shifts arising from natural variations in datasets. Most research on robustness focuses on synthetic image perturbations (noise, simulated weather artifacts, adversarial examples, etc.), which leaves open how robustness on synthetic dis…

2020

TAO: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Tracking Any Object

ECCV 2020poster

For many years, multi-object tracking benchmarks have focused on a handful of categories. Motivated primarily by surveillance and self-driving applications, these datasets provide tracks for people, vehicles, and animals, ignoring the vast majority of objects in the world. By contrast, in the relate…

Cited by 214SourcePDFScholar