Incoming Assistant Professor at @WeizmannScience · Postdoc at @MIT_CSAIL
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Joined July 2021
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What a wrap to an amazing SIGGRAPH!🎉
Co-organizing Lines & Minds with this team was a dream come true!
Thanks to our wonderful speakers and organizers, and a huge thanks to everyone who came out to learn about visual abstraction, even with the World Cup on😄
🤖 Made with AI
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Meet Pika H3 Flex, debuting today as the #1 open weight model on DesignArena’s t2v board.
It’s built for professional iteration, with exportable audio stems, resolutions up to 4k, and faster-than-realtime generation. It can produce a 15-second clip with soundtrack in as little as 7 seconds.
So, yeah. It’s kind of a flex 💅
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We raised a $7M pre-seed to make shopping fun again.
@daletlabs generates media just for you: like walking into a mall built around your taste. And you can buy everything in-app.
Built by researchers from Google, Runway and MIT. Backed by @lightspeedvp and amazing angels.
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My saturday evening project: hacking my remarkable to see if Opus 5.5 can help me draw (and also animate cuz why not)
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Spectacular new plotter just dropped from @bantamtools — a paperslinger inspired by the legendary HP7475A: bantamtools.com/products/han…!
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Made a little site to learn about architecture, visually
architecture.pascal.app/
Cool! This direction is very similar to the ideas we recently presented in Inspiration Seeds!🎨
kfirgoldberg.github.io/Inspi…
Best of luck to Omer and the team!👏 I’m sure it will be awesome ✨
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"Evolution is anything but random."
This is INSANE...
@akarshkumar0101 (@MIT_CSAIL, @SakanaAILabs) on artificial life: searching the space of possible universes with foundation models, why evolved networks find structure SGD misses (with @kenneth0stanley), and LLMs evolving Core War programs.
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My favorite artist has always been M.C. Escher. His "Print Gallery" has been hanging in my home for years.
Recently I bumped into a 3B1B video about it that was really awesome and I thought it would be cool to generate such art. A bit out of my comfort zone, but luckily @Sophie0tq took the lead (🧵).
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(1/7) Humans can acquire many capabilities without (catastrophically) forgetting previous ones. Why can't neural networks do the same?
Local Support Learning (LSL) takes us a step closer towards this goal.
In LLMs of up to 7B parameters, LSL augments gradient-based training to retain prior capabilities while learning new tasks at full capacity. Notably, it does so without access to prior data.
Key idea: casting forgetting as a geometric problem, and optimizing for the worst case.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.02126
Website and code: assafbk.github.io/lsl
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reading feynman lecturess as feynman intended: with accompanying ai-made demo sections for each chapter
rapid acquisition of knowledge is possible thanks to superintelligence
The full workshop recording is now available here 👉
youtube.com/watch?v=CaVtmtrG…
A big thank you again to all the wonderful speakers, participants, and organizers who made the workshop possible! 🎨
lines-and-minds.github.io
I am *very* excited to announce our SIGGRAPH 2026 workshop:
Lines & Minds: Visual Abstraction in Art, Psychology, and Computer Graphics 🎨🧠🫖
🔗 lines-and-minds.github.io
📅 Sunday, July 19
Join us to explore how visual abstraction shapes how we think, create, and communicate.
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1/5 "Sometimes words are not enough," said Yael Vinker (@YVinker) of @MIT_CSAIL at TTIC's Young Researcher Seminar Series in Nov '25. "I want to teach machines to speak the language of sketches." This involves using visual means to communicate concepts under a set of constraints.
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Real-time video models are unlocking new capabilities.
A first experiment: a drawing app that animates your sketches as you draw. Under the hood, a video model generates each frame live, turning every idea into motion instantly.
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「ひらがなを読み書き学習したハエ」作ってみた。読めたらドーパミンを与えて10万文字のひらがなを8時間学習した結果のハエ。約85%確率で正解出してる
hae.satoru.net/
#flywire #ハエ
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Can AI learn origami by watching us fold? 🤖📄
In FoldingAgent, we translate visual demonstrations 🎥 into executable, physically plausible folding procedures, combining vision, geometric reasoning, and agentic planning. 🦢🐦🔥
Very excited to share my first paper! 🎉
FoldingAgent has been accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 ✨
🔹 Reconstructs parametric origami from demonstration videos
🔹 Uses a VLM agent + origami simulator
Project: maya-moriya.github.io/origam…
Joint work with @sigal_raab @YVinker @talidekel
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FoldingAgent accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 ✨ It allows reconstructing parametric, simulator-verified origami straight from demonstration videos!
Fun fact: all-female, 4-author paper! 👩💻📄✨ w/ @mayamoriya @sigal_raab @YVinker
Very excited to share my first paper! 🎉
FoldingAgent has been accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 ✨
🔹 Reconstructs parametric origami from demonstration videos
🔹 Uses a VLM agent + origami simulator
Project: maya-moriya.github.io/origam…
Joint work with @sigal_raab @YVinker @talidekel