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Kevin Black
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@kvablack

Kevin Black

@kvablack
phd @berkeley_ai, research @physical_int
Joined March 2018
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  • @kvablack
    Kevin Black
    @kvablack
    Sep 1
    You're absolutely right, I should not have allowed that mineshaft to collapse with workers still inside, and that's on me. They were the lode-baring component—
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  • @kvablack
    Kevin Black
    @kvablack
    Jun 30
    This is great work! And I finally get to live my dream of Schmidhubering, just once: Using the average of rollouts from the same state as a baseline is exactly what I did in the original DDPO paper (which predates GRPO). But I thought it was boring so I put it in the Appendix :)
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    Sarvesh Patil
    @servo97
    Jun 30
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    Interaction with the real world is the major bottleneck in robot learning. So what would robot RL look like if we didn’t need to limit compute per interaction? Our latest work, Off-Policy Generative Policy Optimization (OGPO, accepted to ICML26) embarks on answering this question
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  • @kvablack
    Kevin Black
    @kvablack
    May 28
    this is why you can't use frontier models for robotics
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  • @kvablack
    Kevin Black
    @kvablack
    Apr 16
    can VCs stop asking us about world models now?
    @physical_int
    Physical Intelligence
    @physical_int
    Apr 16
    Replying to @physical_int
    π0.7 handles diverse prompts that don't just say what to do, but also how to do it, including rich language and multimodal information, such as visual subgoal images. At test time, these images can be produced by a lightweight world model.
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  • @kvablack
    Kevin Black
    @kvablack
    Mar 11
    oh you're using VLAs? everyone's using GRPs now. just kidding we're all on LBMs. world models are the future so we developed our own WAM. we're using DVAs. we were using UWMs but our robot caught on fire so we switched to DreamUMVLAPs. we're shipping a robot that passes butter.
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