| 1 | Mar 12, '25 | Founders who were PhD or post-doc in my lab at Berkeley, **largely funded by NSF / DoD grants**, start-up, market cap (collected by OpenAI Deep Research) | 56.1× | 1M | 4.7k | 476 | 1.5k |
| 2 | Feb 17, '19 | Thrilled to be teaching a new course on Deep Unsupervised Learning with @peterxichen (ImprovedGAN, InfoGAN, PixelCNN++, VLAE, PixelSNAIL, Flow++), @hojonathanho (Flow++, GAIL), @ar | 9.6× | 0 | 1.7k | 504 | 292 |
| 3 | Mar 11, '24 | Yes, 2024 is shaping up a big year for robotics! Introducing @CovariantAI's RFM-1, which just like Sora can generate video, but RFM-1 does it for robotic interaction with the world | 9.2× | 167k | 779 | 151 | 275 |
| 4 | Feb 16, '20 | Want to learn some modern robotics? All lecture videos from CS287 Advanced Robotics Fall'19 offering are now available online. | 7.6× | 0 | 1.3k | 365 | 294 |
| 5 | May 2, '20 | Want to learn more about GAN, DC GAN, ImprovedGAN, WGAN, WGAN-GP, Progr.GAN, SN-GAN, SAGAN, BigGAN(-Deep), StyleGAN-v1,2, VIB-GAN, GANs as Energy Models? Vid: Slides: Colab: w/@Ara | 7.4× | 0 | 1.2k | 315 | 370 |
| 6 | Dec 9, '24 | Super-excited about what's ahead. Want to move the AI research frontier, join us! AGI-SFLab-Jobs@amazon.com | 7.0× | 127k | 541 | 46 | 194 |
| 7 | Mar 23, '21 | Very excited to share the launch of my new podcast, The Robot Brains. The first episode was just released. My first guest is brilliant AI researcher, educator, and Director of AI a | 6.8× | 0 | 1.4k | 272 | 148 |
| 8 | Mar 6, '25 | Basics of Deep RL tutorial I am still very happy with, as good a day as any to re-post :) | 6.5× | 118k | 921 | 106 | 726 |
| 9 | Dec 30, '18 | Looking to study more AI in 2019? All materials of our Fall offering of CS188 Artificial Intelligence are now available here: @berkeley_ai @UCBerkeley | 6.3× | 0 | 1.1k | 332 | 195 |
| 10 | Oct 1, '25 | Very excited to start sharing some of the work we have been doing at Amazon FAR. In this work we present OmniRetarget, which can generate high-quality interaction-preserving data f | 6.1× | 110k | 361 | 43 | 117 |
| 11 | Aug 25, '21 | Excited to share a 6-lecture series on Foundations of Deep RL: MDP basics, value & policy iteration, max-ent, DQN, policy gradient, TRPO, PPO, DDPG, SAC, model-based RL. And we | 5.9× | 0 | 945 | 204 | 342 |
| 12 | Jun 23, '19 | All materials of @berkeley_ai Deep Unsupervised Learning now up: Great semester w/@peterxichen,@Aravind7694,@hojonathanho, and guest inst. @AlecRad,@ilyasut,A Efros,@avdnoord Cover | 5.8× | 0 | 1k | 308 | 187 |
| 13 | Apr 17, '20 | Been looking to learn about CBOW, Glove, Word2Vec, Elmo, GPT, BERT, RoBERTa, ELECTRA, T5, GPT2, and, more generally, learning language models? Here is a wonderful lecture by @OpenA | 4.9× | 0 | 812 | 205 | 249 |
| 14 | Feb 16, '20 | One of my favorites from most recent offering of CS287 Advanced Robotics? Exam study handout summarizing all the main math in ~20pp. Incl. MaxEnt RL, CEM, LQR, Penalty Method, RRTs | 4.6× | 0 | 822 | 164 | 229 |
| 15 | Aug 16, '23 | Hard to imagine a better way for me to flash right back into @OpenAI early days 2016, inspiring clarity of thinking and communication by @ilyasut | 4.3× | 78k | 273 | 37 | 161 |
| 16 | Apr 5, '20 | Been wanting to learn about CPC, CPC-v2, MoCo, SimCLR, MoCo-v2, and other self-supervised learning techniques? Wonderful lecture by @Aravind7694 for the @UCBerkeley Deep Unsupervis | 3.9× | 0 | 709 | 159 | 170 |
| 17 | Jun 18, '20 | Congatulations @karpathy!!!! Teaching the world Deep Learning, Pioneering Image Captioning w/@drfeifei, Founding @OpenAI, Pioneering AI Self-Driving at @Tesla w/@elonmusk. What a c | 3.9× | 0 | 1k | 96 | 49 |
| 18 | Mar 31, '25 | I'm thrilled to share our first release as the AGI SF Lab. Meet Nova Act -- the most effortless way to build agents that can reliably use browsers, giving agents access to much of | 3.9× | 70k | 520 | 62 | 340 |
| 19 | Oct 10, '17 | Deep RL Bootcamp lecture videos and labs release ! :) [Organized by @pabbeel, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, @karpathy] | 3.8× | 0 | 677 | 302 | 3 |
| 20 | Jan 24, '24 | Love the content and how this is done! Great insights into how @berkeley_ai Prof. Mike Jordan thinks about the future of AI and also a look into his research style And thank you Ba | 3.7× | 66k | 201 | 40 | 153 |
| 21 | Mar 15, '23 | Super-excited to kick off S3 of @therobotbrains podcast with Yoshua Bengio. We discuss LLMs, Higher-Level Cognition, Causality, GFlow Nets, Responsible AI, Human Creativity. | 3.5× | 64k | 268 | 45 | 74 |
| 22 | Jul 9, '20 | Very excited to share we have now packaged our Full Stack Deep Learning Bootcamp materials into a (free) online course! | 3.5× | 0 | 709 | 130 | 123 |
| 23 | Apr 7, '22 | I couldn't be more honored. So thankful for all my amazing collaborators that made this possible, my students and colleagues at @UCBerkeley, collaborators at @OpenAI and @Covariant | 3.5× | 0 | 1k | 38 | 16 |
| 24 | May 10, '23 | Thank you @geoffreyhinton for diving deeper into the major potential risks you see with AI, and also reminding us of the tremendous potential for AI to improve our lives. | 3.4× | 61k | 250 | 48 | 86 |
| 25 | Nov 30, '23 | . @nvidia Jensen Huang has always been a big supporter of the research we do at Berkeley AI Research lab and also back when we were at OpenAI. It was really nice to now get to show | 3.3× | 60k | 529 | 32 | 34 |
| 26 | Feb 13, '24 | Since AlexNet/ImageNet moment in October 2012, stock multiples: nvidia: ~250x amd: ~80x intel: ~2x | 3.2× | 58k | 241 | 19 | 35 |
| 27 | Jun 1, '22 | Chatting with @geoffreyhinton was really inspiring, so excited to get to share our conversation: Apple: Spotify: Google: Youtube: | 3.0× | 0 | 497 | 106 | 152 |
| 28 | May 24, '20 | Been looking to learn about self-supervised learning--denoising AE, context encoders*, rotation prediction*, jigsaw, CPC, MoCo, SimCLR*? Colab with tutorial-demos* now released: (b | 2.9× | 0 | 462 | 137 | 141 |
| 29 | Jul 1, '21 | Very honored to share that I am the 2022 recipient of the prestigious @IEEEorg Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. A big thank you to all my collaborators, mentors, and nominators/letter writers! | 2.9× | 0 | 849 | 36 | 5 |
| 30 | May 29, '25 | FastTD3: "Minimum innovation, maximum results" Not the paper we had planned to write, but one of the works I am most proud of. We wanted to make sure our baseline (TD3) was a very | 2.7× | 48k | 260 | 32 | 119 |
| 31 | Mar 2, '18 | My slides from today's Reinforcement Learning in AI event at Stanford: . Includes a bunch of pointers on getting started towards the end. Thanks @AndrewYNg for organizing, and was | 2.6× | 0 | 507 | 161 | 45 |
| 32 | Jun 7, '19 | Want to AutoAugment w/o original Google paper's budget to spend? Population-based Augmentation matches the performance -- with 1000x less compute! :) BLOG: PAPER: w/ @peterxichen , | 2.6× | 0 | 473 | 131 | 82 |
| 33 | Apr 6, '20 | Been looking to learn about flow models? Full package released: - lecture: - slides: - lecture colab: - homework: w/Alex Li, Wilson Yan, @Aravind7694, @peterxichen, @hojonathanho | 2.6× | 0 | 450 | 94 | 133 |
| 34 | Dec 28, '23 | Biggest pro-tip I got in 2023 (h/t @RichardSocher): Keeping two dumbbells right on my desk, for quick lifts in little dead moments between meetings, when listening to a seminar, et | 2.5× | 46k | 227 | 11 | 63 |
| 35 | Feb 16, '20 | Just released Colab accompanying the lecture on Autoregressive Models: Contains 9 demos/code (see image), including MADE,WaveNet,regular/GrayScale/Parallel PixelCNN All code by Wil | 2.5× | 0 | 422 | 106 | 119 |
| 36 | Feb 12, '20 | Last semester, a guest lecture fell through last minute. So improvised a lecture on the backstories behind some research papers -- i.e. not about the research results, but about ho | 2.5× | 0 | 484 | 87 | 95 |
| 37 | Jan 31, '18 | ICLR accepted paper analysis by Arthur Pajot. Berkeley coming in second after Google, followed by Stanford, CMU, Facebook, Microsoft, Oxford, IBM, Toronto, ETH, MIT, ... Many other | 2.5× | 0 | 443 | 177 | 1 |
| 38 | Apr 16, '19 | The Full Stack Deep Learning Bootcamp was a lot of fun in person, but of course not everyone can make it in person. Very excited to start releasing the materials today, here: Happy | 2.5× | 0 | 451 | 132 | 57 |
| 39 | Dec 12, '17 | All my #NIPS2017 slides in one place! Keynote main conf: Meta-learning symp: Robot Learning ws: Learning in Transportation ws: [w/Greg Kahn] Hierarchical RL ws: | 2.4× | 0 | 502 | 162 | 2 |
| 40 | Nov 19, '20 | Very excited to start offering Full Stack Deep Learning as a formal course at Berkeley this Spring, while also allowing anyone outside of Berkeley to learn along! If you want to fo | 2.4× | 0 | 441 | 79 | 112 |
| 41 | Apr 25, '19 | Video lectures of Day 2 of now posted! Includes Troubleshooting, Testing and Deployment, Research Directions, and guest lectures by @jeremyphoward and @RichardSocher! | 2.4× | 0 | 452 | 109 | 71 |
| 42 | Dec 9, '21 | From 5 years ago, still very relevant today: | 2.3× | 0 | 391 | 53 | 152 |
| 43 | Jun 18, '18 | Very excited to announce something we’ve been working on for a while now: 3-day bootcamp! Instructors: @sergeykarayev (@gradescope), @josh_tobin_ (Berkeley/OpenAI), @karpathy (Tesl | 2.3× | 0 | 462 | 116 | 29 |
| 44 | Dec 7, '17 | Thanks to everyone who made it to my talk today! Here are the slides: . #nips2017 | 2.2× | 0 | 473 | 144 | 2 |
| 45 | Dec 8, '17 | Video of my keynote on Deep Learning and Robotics is now available here: (includes lots of meta-learning :) . #NIPS2017 | 2.2× | 0 | 441 | 156 | 12 |
| 46 | Jan 26, '20 | Teaching Deep Unsupervised Learning (2nd edition) at @UCBerkeley this semester. You can follow along here: Instructor Team: @peterxichen , @Aravind7694 , @hojonathanho , Wilson Yan | 2.2× | 0 | 390 | 110 | 79 |
| 47 | Apr 18, '22 | Exciting announcement: in my @therobotbrains conversation with @geoffreyhinton (yes!!!!!!!!!), there will be some time for (prepared) audience questions. By Tuesday, post/like ques | 2.2× | 0 | 537 | 42 | 27 |
| 48 | Oct 29, '24 | Great ICLR 2024 talk on "The Emerging Science of Benchmarks" by Moritz Hardt (which I somehow didn't see, till now): | 2.1× | 39k | 298 | 43 | 276 |
| 49 | Mar 20, '19 | My slides from this morning's keynote at #GTC19. Covered: - Few-Shot Reinforcement Learning - Leveraging Simulation - Model-based RL - Learning Representations for Exploration - Fe | 2.0× | 0 | 406 | 102 | 44 |
| 50 | Mar 15, '18 | Beautiful resource off @goodfellow_ian 's website I just learned about today: So many great presentations, wonderful to learn from, thanks Ian! | 2.0× | 0 | 420 | 103 | 29 |
| 51 | Apr 27, '24 | A fun short lecture on parallelization for training large models: by @wilson1yan and @haoliuhl | 1.9× | 35k | 295 | 58 | 367 |
| 52 | Jul 3, '17 | Slides from my lecture today at CIFAR RL summer school: | 1.9× | 0 | 376 | 143 | 1 |
| 53 | Feb 14, '24 | Current works are restricted to short sequences of texts and images, limiting their ability to model the world. Presenting Large World Model (LWM): capable of processing long text, | 1.9× | 35k | 216 | 35 | 89 |
| 54 | Dec 31, '18 | 69 = number of invited talks in 2018. Most of these were tailored to specific private, non-technical audiences (so I haven't publicly shared those slides as I have often done for m | 1.9× | 0 | 399 | 71 | 51 |
| 55 | Feb 23, '24 | Gave a lecture on Diffusion Models yesterday with @wilson1yan and @kvfrans Thanks to it being Lecture 6 into the semester (rather than Lecture 1), we could even include Sora, Mobil | 1.8× | 32k | 436 | 68 | 322 |
| 56 | Aug 5, '19 | Recently been spending a lot of time on sharing AI advances and trends with general audiences. Got a video recording of one of the sessions! | 1.8× | 0 | 336 | 81 | 57 |
| 57 | Jun 27, '21 | Very excited to share my CVPR keynote from this past week: I share my thoughts on how we might be able to achieve large pre-trained neural networks for robotics, hopefully getting | 1.8× | 0 | 340 | 55 | 81 |
| 58 | Dec 7, '16 | Slide-deck from NIPS Deep Reinforcement Learning via Policy Optimization tutorial by John Schulman and myself: | 1.7× | 0 | 307 | 143 | 2 |
| 59 | Apr 3, '20 | Been looking to learn more about Semi-Supervised Learning or Unsupervised Distribution Alignment? One hour tutorials, respectively by @Aravind7694 and @peterxichen, for CS294-158: | 1.7× | 0 | 326 | 66 | 71 |
| 60 | Mar 23, '19 | Deep Q learning requires many tricks to not diverge. We build on studies of stable (linear) function appr. (Gordon95: , Tsitsiklis,van Roy97: ) through contractions, and extend to | 1.7× | 0 | 346 | 87 | 38 |
| 61 | Apr 19, '24 | Great guest lecture yesterday by John Ingraham on Generative Models for Science | 1.7× | 30k | 221 | 40 | 165 |
| 62 | Sep 25, '19 | Want to take your Deep Learning to next level w/real-world deployment in mind? Excited to announce Edition 3 of the Full Stack Deep Learning bootcamp! Keynotes: Franziska Bell @l2k | 1.7× | 0 | 300 | 58 | 71 |
| 63 | Aug 25, '21 | Excited to share the epic Season 1 finale of @therobotbrains with the amazing @ilyasut Co-Founder/Chief Scientist @OpenAI! His breakthroughs include AlexNet, seq2seq, MT, GPT, CLIP | 1.7× | 0 | 353 | 49 | 53 |
| 64 | Mar 24, '25 | My knee-jerk reaction was that sim-2-real wouldn't work watching the learned policy in sim (on left), but actually it does! | 1.6× | 28k | 203 | 16 | 45 |
| 65 | Aug 28, '19 | SO EXCITED to share that @getonyxfit has publicly launched! 🎉 Everyone who has spent time in my lab, knows how much importance I put on exercise, and not just for myself :) Check | 1.5× | 0 | 363 | 55 | 21 |
| 66 | Oct 20, '18 | We release ProMP: Proximal Meta-Policy Search. Builds on MAML, E-MAML, DiCE, includes code for all. Code: Docs: . Paper: with Jonas Rothfuss, Dennis Lee, Ignasi Clavera, Tamim Asfo | 1.5× | 0 | 297 | 80 | 32 |
| 67 | Feb 18, '19 | Video of Lecture 1 of CS294-158 Deep Unsupervised Learning has been released We cover: - Course Logistics - Motivation - Autoregressive Models: MADE, Wavenet, PixelCNN(++), pixelsn | 1.5× | 0 | 305 | 67 | 39 |
| 68 | Apr 17, '22 | Re-reading #geniusmakers in preparation for the Season 2 finale guest of @therobotbrains | 1.5× | 0 | 267 | 25 | 100 |
| 69 | Dec 17, '19 | Want to catch up on some latest Deep RL work? Here is a zip file with all the camera-ready papers from the #NeurIPS2019 Deep RL Workshop! | 1.5× | 0 | 254 | 66 | 61 |
| 70 | Dec 14, '21 | Kenji Doya reminded us of the neuroscience version of @ylecun 's LeCake at this year's Deep RL workshop. | 1.4× | 0 | 248 | 60 | 64 |
| 71 | Sep 17, '18 | Model-based RL, while sample-efficient, often doesn't match performance of model-free RL. Model-based RL via Meta-Policy Optimization resolves this by meta-RL on an ensemble of lea | 1.4× | 0 | 289 | 79 | 22 |
| 72 | Jul 17, '17 | Robot: (1) watch, (2) similar task, (3) hallucinate success, (4) RL to success. by Y Liu*,A Gupta*,P Abbeel,S Levine | 1.4× | 0 | 264 | 102 | 0 |
| 73 | May 6, '20 | Very excited to share the news of our 40MM B-round led by @IndexVentures w/AI focused @radicalvcfund +existing investor @AmplifyPartners! In times when supply chain resilience/robu | 1.4× | 0 | 364 | 31 | 12 |
| 74 | Jul 26, '21 | Very excited to share our #ICML2021 tutorial materials on Unsupervised Learning for RL: w/@AravSrinivas Part I covers Representation Learning for RL. Part II covers Unsupervised Pr | 1.4× | 0 | 245 | 51 | 67 |
| 75 | Apr 11, '20 | Want to learn more about compression and the role of generative models? Covers: Kraft-McMillan, Shannon, Huffman, Arithmetic Coding, Asymmetric Numeral Systems (ANS), Bits-Back, co | 1.4× | 0 | 246 | 55 | 58 |
| 76 | Apr 8, '21 | Ep.3 of The Robot Brains Podcast is now live! I was fortunate enough to sit down with @ylecun. Yann is professor at NYU, Chief AI Scientist at Facebook, winner of the Turing Award | 1.3× | 0 | 279 | 47 | 36 |
| 77 | Aug 23, '19 | Finally got to read this wonderful tutorial on transformers by @pbloemesquire! | 1.3× | 0 | 239 | 61 | 46 |
| 78 | Dec 12, '15 | Deep Reinforcement Learning NIPS workshop so overcrowded that the security guard decided to keep out Rich Sutton! | 1.3× | 0 | 275 | 55 | 17 |
| 79 | Sep 3, '20 | Very excited about the @NeurIPSConf 2020 Deep RL Workshop! Amazing line-up of invited speakers: @marcgbellemare Matt Botvinick @RealAshEdwards Karen Liu @SusanMurphylab1 Anusha Nag | 1.3× | 0 | 276 | 55 | 22 |
| 80 | Aug 20, '21 | I believe ultimately most of the challenges towards value creation will be in the AI. But setting that aside, what's the hardest R&D ahead for hardware? I am gonna say "human-l | 1.2× | 0 | 314 | 29 | 11 |
| 81 | Mar 8, '18 | "Our results include using an entire NVIDIA DGX-1 to learn successful strategies in Atari games in single-digit minutes." (thanks @nvidia!) Also snuck in a 400K on seaquest (Fig. 4 | 1.2× | 0 | 234 | 75 | 10 |
| 82 | Apr 13, '19 | Wonderful visit to NYU yesterday! Talk slides: Also lucky timing I was there same day as @ylecun 's Turing Award celebration! There was more than one cherry on the Le Cake :) | 1.2× | 0 | 345 | 22 | 10 |
| 83 | Jul 27, '21 | Some big news today: we / @CovariantAI raised 80MM C-round, led by @IndexVentures, and bringing in several new investors! So much exciting AI Robotics work ahead of us :) | 1.2× | 0 | 325 | 19 | 8 |
| 84 | Feb 24, '19 | Video of Lecture 2 of CS294-158 Deep Unsupervised Learning is up We cover: - Autoregressive Models: MADE, Wavenet, PixelCNN(++), pixelsnail (self-attention) [ctd] - Lossless Compre | 1.2× | 0 | 249 | 54 | 24 |
| 85 | Feb 11, '18 | Amazing, very accessible CS Theory talk series I just found out about today. Videos of all lectures available. Just watched Scott Aaronson and Mary Wootters' talks. | 1.1× | 0 | 274 | 62 | 2 |
| 86 | Mar 8, '21 | One of our key values at @CovariantAI is to always be learning. As part of this I have much enjoyed explaining the core ideas behind recent AI Robotics progress to our customers an | 1.1× | 0 | 243 | 34 | 35 |
| 87 | Apr 19, '18 | Beautiful op-ed and food for thought by Michael Jordan! | 1.1× | 0 | 208 | 74 | 14 |
| 88 | Oct 8, '20 | love this video of Jennifer @doudna_lab recorded this morning upon notification of her Nobel Prize (for CRISPR). Looks such an awesome lab to part of! | 1.1× | 0 | 240 | 50 | 8 |
| 89 | Jun 16, '19 | My slides from yesterday's talk on "Some of our Explorations of Exploration in RL" -- surveying many directions of work in exploration | 1.1× | 0 | 244 | 47 | 22 |
| 90 | Apr 10, '18 | Existing RL methods can be adapted to learn robust control policies capable of imitating a broad range of example motion clips, while also learning complex recoveries. paper: w/ @j | 1.1× | 0 | 209 | 76 | 8 |
| 91 | Mar 6, '18 | #nips2017 Meta Learning Symposium videos are now available here: Thanks to Risto Miikkulainen, Quoc Le, Kenneth Stanley, and Chrisantha Fernando for organizing! | 1.1× | 0 | 204 | 74 | 15 |
| 92 | Aug 31, '18 | NIPS Deep RL Workshop is happening again in 2018! Paper submission deadline is Friday Oct 12th. Exciting invited speakers line-up: @ylecun, Satinder Singh, Sham Kakade, @jeffclune, | 1.1× | 0 | 238 | 60 | 6 |
| 93 | Feb 26, '19 | What an exciting day! Got to personally brief His Majesty, King Philippe of Belgium on Artificial Intelligence. So genuinely kind and thoughtful. And so engaged in our discussion! | 1.1× | 0 | 346 | 8 | 2 |
| 94 | Aug 27, '17 | Vlad Minh at DeepRLBootcamp: Everything in Deep RL is still exciting. Nothing is solved. @VladMnih | 1.0× | 0 | 217 | 73 | 0 |
| 95 | Oct 26, '17 | Great feature on high schooler Kevin Frans, 1st author on just released @openai HRL paper, amazing to work with! | 1.0× | 0 | 223 | 64 | 0 |
| 96 | Dec 14, '19 | Distinct memory from first edition of Deep RL workshop, back in 2015: room so overcrowded the security guard couldn't let Rich Sutton in... This time, our room (West Exh. Hall C) s | 1.0× | 0 | 282 | 29 | 2 |
| 97 | May 23, '18 | Slides from my #ICRA2018 keynote on Deep Learning to Learn: photo credit @petitegeek | 1.0× | 0 | 211 | 53 | 10 |
| 98 | Aug 11, '21 | On Ep20 of @therobotbrains , I sit down with the amazing @drfeifei, Co-Director of @StanfordHAI, Member of Nat'l Acad. of Medicine She shares ImageNet origin stories, her interest | 0.9× | 0 | 204 | 32 | 17 |
| 99 | Jan 29, '20 | Couldn’t be more excited about what we are building! Yet, even more excited about @CovariantAI team, all brilliant and exceptional at working across team boundaries, engineering, r | 0.8× | 0 | 220 | 22 | 5 |