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John Lambert

10 accepted papers

2026

DPO Unchained: Your Training Algorithm is Secretly Disentangled in Human Choice Theory (and Its Loss' Convexity is Dispensable)

ICML 2026oral

Normative theories allow one to elicit key parts of a ML algorithm from first principles, which is crucial at a time of championed scrutiny for ML work. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) cleverly bypasses reward modeling by making an explicit link with a specific normative model of human choice. …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Fantastic Reasoning Behaviors and Where to Find Them: Unsupervised Discovery of the Reasoning Process

ICML 2026poster

Despite the growing reasoning capabilities of recent large language models (LLMs), their internal mechanisms during the reasoning process remain underexplored. Prior approaches often rely on human-defined concepts (e.g., overthinking, reflection) at the word level to analyze reasoning in a supervise…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

SceneDiffuser++: City-Scale Traffic Simulation via a Generative World Model

CVPR 2025poster

The goal of traffic simulation is to augment a potentially limited amount of manually-driven miles that is available for testing and validation, with a much larger amount of simulated synthetic miles. The culmination of this vision would be a generative simulated city, where given a map of the city…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

The Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Simulation with realistic, interactive agents represents a key task for autonomous vehicle software development. In this work, we introduce the Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge (WOSAC). WOSAC is the first public challenge to tackle this task and propose corresponding metrics. The goal of the challeng…

2022

SALVe: Semantic Alignment Verification for Floorplan Reconstruction from Sparse Panoramas

ECCV 2022poster

"We propose a new system for automatic 2D floorplan reconstruction that is enabled by SALVe, our novel pairwise learned alignment verifier. The inputs to our system are sparsely located 360 deg. panoramas, whose semantic features (windows, doors, and openings) are inferred and used to hypothesize pa…

2021

Argoverse 2: Next Generation Datasets for Self-Driving Perception and Forecasting

NeurIPS 2021poster

We introduce Argoverse 2 (AV2) — a collection of three datasets for perception and forecasting research in the self-driving domain. The annotated Sensor Dataset contains 1,000 sequences of multimodal data, encompassing high-resolution imagery from seven ring cameras, and two stereo cameras in additi…

Cited by 722SourcecodeScholar
2020

MSeg: A Composite Dataset for Multi-Domain Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2020poster

We present MSeg, a composite dataset that unifies se- mantic segmentation datasets from different domains. A naive merge of the constituent datasets yields poor performance due to inconsistent taxonomies and annotation practices. We reconcile the taxonomies and bring the pixel-level annotations into…

Cited by 237PDFcodeScholar
2019

Argoverse: 3D Tracking and Forecasting With Rich Maps

CVPR 2019oral

We present Argoverse, a dataset designed to support autonomous vehicle perception tasks including 3D tracking and motion forecasting. Argoverse includes sensor data collected by a fleet of autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh and Miami as well as 3D tracking annotations, 300k extracted interesting vehi…

Cited by 1736PDFcodeScholar
2018

Deep Learning Under Privileged Information Using Heteroscedastic Dropout

CVPR 2018poster

Unlike machines, humans learn through rapid, abstract model-building. The role of a teacher is not simply to hammer home right or wrong answers, but rather to provide intuitive comments, comparisons, and explanations to a pupil. This is what the Learning Under Privileged Information (LUPI) paradigm…