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【New summer course alert – IDSS 2501 “Embodied AI 101” 🤖】 Today is chilly, but could be the best time to prepare for knowledge about AI! Enrol now to interact with our 3 esteemed scholars. 👉More details: datascience.hku.hk/idss2501 #HKU #hkudatascience #港大数据科学暑假课程
🚀 Excited to drop our ✨DeepCode✨ - Easy-to-Use AI Coding Assistant! Fully Open-sourced 🔗: github.com/HKUDS/DeepCode Three core capabilities: 🔬 Paper2Code: Research to Algorithm Implementation 🎨 Text2Web: Natural Language to Front-End Web Development ⚙️ Text2Backend: Text to…
【Let’s ignite our summer vibes! 🤖✨】 HKU IDS is thrilled to welcome our new cohort of summer students to the HKU Summer Institute IDSS2501: Embodied AI 101, kicking off today! See you in class with our 3 teachers the coming 2 weeks! 🚀 #HKU #IDSsummer #港大数据科学暑假课程
【Event Recap💡】HKU IDS Scholar Seminar by Prof Tao Yu on Foundation Models & Embodied Agents 🌟 The hybrid event on Jul 14 was a massive success! Thanks for your active participation🙌 Missed the event? Revisit the recording here: datascience.hku.hk/seminar20250714 #HKU #hkudatascience
【🎉 New Issue Alert – HKU IDS e-Newsletter June 2025 is here! 🙌😎】 Many exciting news going on! Check out the full June 2025 issue here: 🔗 datascience.hku.hk/2025/04/hku-id… Happy reading! Here’s to a vibrant and productive 2025 ahead! 🔥📚 #HKU #hkudatascience
HKU has reached an unprecedented milestone, climbing to 11th place in the 2026 #QS World University Rankings @worlduniranking. This achievement marks the second consecutive year of record-breaking, following its rise to 17th globally in 2025. HKU has also solidified its position…
Artificial Intelligence: Your level of "Intelligence" depends on how much "Artificial" effort you put in. It's a joke, but it does highlight an important point: the current capabilities of large models are still heavily reliant on Human Intelligence, especially in the field of…
【A Huge Welcome to SRP2025 with HKU IDS! 🌞】 Thrilled to kick off an exciting 10-week journey with our young research talents from around the globe at SRP2025, organized by @HKU_GS ! Revisit the highlights from the opening ceremony🚀
🔥New Computer Agent Arena Leaderboard Updates (2k+ user votes)! 🤔Which VLMs act better as computer use agents (CUAs)? 1, Claude Sonnet 4 🥇 2, Claude 3.7 Sonnet 🥈 3, UI-TARS-1.5 🥉 4, Operator More insights in the thread 👇 arena.xlang.ai
【🚨New Seminar!】IDS Scholar Seminar #18 by Prof. Difan Zou on Theoretical Learning of AI & Diffusion Models on June 25, 2025 @ 11am! 🤖 Learn more about the talk! datascience.hku.hk/seminar20250625 #HKU #hkudatascience
【Hooray!🎉】HKU's Rising Star in Data Science – Xubin REN, PhD Candidate, Honoured “Qingyuan Scholar「清源學者」” by GAITC2025 - Congrats!😍 The work Xubin presented was ranked: ✅ #1 Most Influential Paper ✅ #1 Most Cited Paper at WWW'24! Read more: datascience.hku.hk/2025/06/award-…
【Event Recap】#HKU IDS Distinguished Speaker Seminar by Professor Zhi Ding from UC Davis on Wireless Communications with Engaging Discussions!🤩🔥 Missed the seminar? Please view the recording here: datascience.hku.hk/seminar20250606 See you next time! #HKUIDS
Go for FreeTacMan!!! A low-cost hardware visuo-tactile gripper for robotic manipulation task. Setup documentation fully released. Build your own version!!!
🚀 New Paper Alert! 🚀 FreeTacMan: Robot-free Visuo-Tactile Data Collection System for Contact-rich Manipulation We are pleased to introduce FreeTacMan, a human-centric and robot-free visuo-tactile data collection system for high-quality and efficient robot manipulation! 🤖✨…
Homepage: city-super.github.io/anysplat/
AnySplat Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting from Unconstrained Views
【🚀 Diving into the future of AI and Machine Learning! 🤖 】HKU IDS Interdisciplinary Workshop on foundational AI & ML on May 28-29, 2025! A great shout-out to everyone joining us 🥳 Until next time for more thought-provoking exchanges! datascience.hku.hk/workshop202505… #HKU
Thank TwelveLabs for organizing and inviting us! My Ph.D. student, Ms. Yi Chen, will share our recent research on benchmarking and improving the reasoning abilities of multimodal LLMs. May 30, 2025 Fri 9:30-10:30 AM PST Registration: mailchi.mp/twelvelabs/mul…
In the 85th session of #MultimodalWeekly, we have 3 exciting presentations on multimodal state-space models, multimodal reasoning, and multi-grained video editing.
【Lecture Time🤖🔥】HKU IDS Distinguished Speaker Seminar #8 by Prof. Zhi Ding of UC Davis on Gen AI & Wireless Communications @ Jun 6, 2025 at 11am! 😍 📌Website: datascience.hku.hk/seminar20250606 Don’t miss the chance to interact with Prof Ding F2F 🥰 #hkudatascience
Introducing GoT-R1, which enhances visual generation by using reinforcement learning to improve semantic-spatial chain-of-thought reasoning. Code available! Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17022 Code: github.com/gogoduan/GoT-R1 huggingface.co/papers/2505.17…
Here is the recording of a distinguished lecture that I gave at the Iowa State University EE department on May 2nd: iastate.box.com/s/wyotjc2m0nzv…
【Recent Feature🥰】Prof Hongyang Li from HKU IDS (@OpenDriveLab) is interviewed by HKU Bulletin to talk about the developments of autonomous driving led by his research team. While computers take the wheel, IDS researchers take the lead. Read more👉bulletin.hku.hk/cover-story-th…
【An inspiring, interdisciplinary platform for collaborations and knowledge of AI & machine learning🥳】 Join us at this exciting event on May 28-29, 2025 on HKU campus! More details & register here👉datascience.hku.hk/workshop202505…
