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Wilson Yan

7 accepted papers

2025

ElasticTok: Adaptive Tokenization for Image and Video

ICLR 2025poster

Efficient video tokenization remains a key bottleneck in learning general purpose vision models that are capable of processing long video sequences. Prevailing approaches are restricted to encoding videos to a fixed number of tokens, where too few tokens will result in overly lossy encodings, and to…

2025

World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With Blockwise RingAttention

ICLR 2025poster

Enabling long-context understanding remains a key challenge in scaling existing sequence models -- a crucial component in developing generally intelligent models that can process and operate over long temporal horizons that potentially consist of millions of tokens. In this paper, we aim to address…

2023

Temporally Consistent Transformers for Video Generation

ICML 2023poster

To generate accurate videos, algorithms have to understand the spatial and temporal dependencies in the world. Current algorithms enable accurate predictions over short horizons but tend to suffer from temporal inconsistencies. When generated content goes out of view and is later revisited, the mode…

2023

Video Prediction Models as Rewards for Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2023poster

Specifying reward signals that allow agents to learn complex behaviors is a long-standing challenge in reinforcement learning. A promising approach is to extract preferences for behaviors from unlabeled videos, which are widely available on the internet. We present Video Prediction Rewards (VIPER),…

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2020

Learning Predictive Representations for Deformable Objects Using Contrastive Estimation

CoRL 2020

Using visual model-based learning for deformable object manipulation is challenging due to difficulties in learning plannable visual representations along with complex dynamic models. In this work, we propose a new learning framework that jointly optimizes both the visual representation model and th

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2020

Learning to Manipulate Deformable Objects without Demonstrations

RSS 2020poster

In this paper we tackle the problem of deformable object manipulation through model-free visual reinforcement learning (RL). In order to circumvent the sample inefficiency of RL, we propose two key ideas that accelerate learning. First, we propose an iterative pick-place action space that encodes th…