Ivan Laptev

A 0.9B parameter omni-modal embedder achieves state-of-the-art text retrieval quality by distilling a frozen text backbone's embeddings into new modalities, bypassing the common modality-extension performance drop.

Real-time 3D Gaussian avatar animation is now achievable at 60fps on mobile by distilling complex neural inference into a linear blendshape approximation, reducing CPU cost by 1000x.

The Robot Data Factory is introduced, a mission-driven infrastructure and methodology for continuously generating, validating, benchmarking, and reusing robot experience that reframes robot data generation as a continuous scientific production process and provides a pathway toward reproducible, scalable, and eventually federated infrastructure for Physical AI.

Unlock the power of web videos for embodied AI: implicit geometry representations let agents learn to navigate from real-world room tours without relying on fragile 3D reconstruction.