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Yuqing Du

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Yuqing Du

@d_yuqing

@GoogleDeepMind; CS PhD @berkeley_ai

London, UK

Joined June 2020

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Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
May 19
multimodal in & out! what an honour to have built Omni w/ so many brilliant people 💖
Google DeepMind
@GoogleDeepMind
May 19
We’re dropping Gemini Omni: our first step towards a model that can create anything from anything - starting with video. It combines Gemini’s intelligence with our generative media systems - representing a leap forward in world understanding, multimodality, and editing 🧵
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Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Jun 13, 2024
a (belated) life update; last november I wrapped up my phd @berkeley_ai. Huge thanks to @pabbeel for all the support & encouragement throughout! 🌟 I've since joined @GoogleDeepMind in London, working on both imagen 3 & veo with an incredible team. more to come!!
Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Feb 15, 2023
How can we encourage RL agents to explore human-meaningful behaviors *without* a human in the loop? @OliviaGWatkins2 and I are excited to share “Guiding Pretraining in Reinforcement Learning with LLMs”! 📜arxiv.org/abs/2302.06692 🧵1/
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Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Mar 20, 2023
How can we develop more generalisable reward models for agent behaviours? Excited to share my @deepmind internship project, where we investigate finetuning Flamingo🦩w/ human reward annotations to train success detectors in 3 different domains! 📜arxiv.org/abs/2303.07280 🧵1/
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Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Aug 26, 2025
🥹🥹 All vague-posting aside, super happy this model is finally out there & proud of everyone for making this happen 💖 let us know what you think!
Logan Kilpatrick
@OfficialLoganK
Aug 26, 2025
Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka nano-banana), our SOTA image generation and editing model 🍌 As you might have already seen, this model excels at character consistency, creative edits, and has Gemini's world knowledge!
Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Jan 26, 2025
Similarly, 2 years ago we tried to get PPO working for reasoning tasks and struggled to improve over iterative SFT. Agree with these intuitions (esp. better base models + exploration) 👇
Dibya Ghosh
@its_dibya
Jan 26, 2025
With R1, a lot of people have been asking “how come we didn't discover this 2 years ago?” Well... 2 years ago, I spent 6 months working exactly on this (PG / PPO for math+gsm8k), but my results were nowhere as good. Here’s my take on what blocked me and what’s changed: 🧵
Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Dec 16, 2024
Excited to share what we’ve been up to! (:
Google DeepMind
@GoogleDeepMind
Dec 16, 2024
Today, we’re announcing Veo 2: our state-of-the-art video generation model which produces realistic, high-quality clips from text or image prompts. 🎥 We’re also releasing an improved version of our text-to-image model, Imagen 3 - available to use in ImageFX through
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Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Apr 16, 2021
Current sim2real methods (eg. domain randomization) rely on hand engineering to find a scheme that produces a robust policy without being too conservative. Can we automatically tune a simulator to match reality? Check out our ICRA 2021 paper: yuqingd.github.io/autotuned-sim2…
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Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Aug 16, 2021
Tried a quick lil art battle with the paint transformer. I actually quite like how it made that large stroke of red in the beginning, which peeks through the mountains at the end.
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Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Feb 23, 2022
Humans excel at generating curricula of tasks simply by interacting with other agents. Can RL agents generate similar curricula? We tackle this in our #ICLR2022 paper, Multiagent Selfplay for Automatic Curriculum Generation! w/ @pabbeel, @adityagrover_ 1/8
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Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Jan 22, 2025
🫶 we’re live
Arena.ai
@arena
Jan 22, 2025
Replying to @arena
Model Strength CI plot: @GoogleDeepMind Imagen 3 is leading with a significant margin.
Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Jun 30, 2020
Excited to share some recent work! Assisting people can be hard when it’s challenging to infer their goals. We propose another view: learning to increase human empowerment instead. w/ Stas Tiomkin, @emrek, Daniel Polani, @pabbeel, @ancadianadragan arxiv.org/abs/2006.14796
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Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Aug 24, 2025
🤏 ? ? ?
Aleksander Holynski
@holynski_
Aug 20, 2025
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Yuqing Du
@d_yuqing
Jul 3, 2021
felt inspired to do some drawing again after seeing all the AI art floating around (: