Xiaodan Du

@DuXiaodan

PhD student @TTIC_Connect | MS @IllinoisCS '20 | BS @CEEatIllinois '18 Interned at @AdobeResearch & @ToyotaResearch Medal collections at xiaodan.io/gallery

Chicago, IL

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Joined January 2017

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Xiaodan Du
@DuXiaodan
Jul 14
🎉Our work 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 was accepted to ECCV 2026 ! We taught an agent to draw vector sketches — part by part. Joint work with @RichardXu110572 ,David Yunis, @YVinker & Greg Shakhnarovich More in thread🧵
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Xiaodan Du
@DuXiaodan
Sep 15
I spent a weekend building an interactive atlas of traditional Chinese timber architecture with @OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra in Codex. Its 3D modeling abilities absolutely blew my mind. 🤯🤯 Introducing 木构图志 · 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝙰𝚝𝚕𝚊𝚜. Try it here → timber-atlas.xiaodan.io This
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Xiaodan Du
@DuXiaodan
Aug 2
Karpathy’s point about models struggling to audit and interact with what they create really resonates with me. What I’d love to work on is visual agents that can maintain a persistent understanding of an evolving world, reason about the consequences of their own actions, and
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy
Aug 2
We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for
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Xiaodan Du
@DuXiaodan
Mar 23
🤖✏️We taught an agent to draw vector sketches one part at a time: look, read a instruction, draw, look again, repeat. New preprint: Teaching an Agent to Sketch One Part at a Time Joint work with @RichardXu110572, David Yunis, @YVinker and Greg Shakhnarovich. More in thread 🧵
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Xiaodan Du
@DuXiaodan
Oct 8, 2024
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
Oct 8, 2024
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

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