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David McAllister
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David McAllister
@davidrmcall
PhD Student @berkeley_ai
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    David McAllister
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    Jul 29, 2025
    Excited to share Flow Matching Policy Gradients: expressive RL policies trained from rewards using flow matching. It’s an easy, drop-in replacement for Gaussian PPO on control tasks.
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    David McAllister
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    Jan 14, 2025
    Decentralized Diffusion Models power stronger models trained on more accessible infrastructure. DDMs mitigate the networking bottleneck that locks training into expensive and power-hungry centralized clusters. They scale gracefully to billions of parameters and generate
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    David McAllister
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    Jul 29, 2025
    Replying to @davidrmcall
    Check out our blog post at flowreinforce.github.io  We developed interactive plots that explain the connection between flow/diffusion models and RL. w/ a great team of collaborators! @Songwei_Ge @brenthyi @ChungMinKim @ethanjohnweber @redstone_hong @HavenFeng @akanazawa
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    David McAllister
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    Jul 29, 2025
    Replying to @davidrmcall @Songwei_Ge and 6 others
    Paper link:
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    Flow Matching Policy Gradients
    Flow-based generative models, including diffusion models, excel at modeling continuous distributions in high-dimensional spaces. In this work, we introduce Flow Policy Optimization (FPO), a simple...
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    David McAllister
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    Dec 10, 2024
    I’ll be at #NeurIPS2024 this week presenting Rethinking Score Distillation as a Bridge Between Image Distributions! Poster Presentation: Friday 4:30-7:30 PM Come chat with me or @holynski_ about lifting diffusion models to 3D!
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    David McAllister
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    May 7, 2025
    Humanoids on campus! Check out our new work on context-aware locomotion
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    Arthur Allshire
    @arthurallshire
    May 7, 2025
    our new system trains humanoid robots using data from cell phone videos, enabling skills such as climbing stairs and sitting on chairs in a single policy (w/ @redstone_hong @junyi42 @davidrmcall)
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    David McAllister
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    Jun 12, 2025
    @akanazawa and I will be presenting Decentralized Diffusion Models tomorrow (Friday) morning at CVPR poster session 1, come find us!
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    David McAllister
    @davidrmcall
    Jan 14, 2025
    Decentralized Diffusion Models power stronger models trained on more accessible infrastructure. DDMs mitigate the networking bottleneck that locks training into expensive and power-hungry centralized clusters. They scale gracefully to billions of parameters and generate
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    David McAllister
    @davidrmcall
    Apr 30, 2025
    RDM is now published at Nature Methods! This was a 3 year effort and my introduction to academic research. I’m fortunate to have been mentored by one of the smartest people I’ve ever met @the_legitamit!
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    Amit Kohli
    @the_legitamit
    Apr 30, 2025
    Ring deconvolution microscopy is now published at @naturemethods! nature.com/articles/s4159… There are some fun new additions including light-sheet deconvolution 🫡 Stay tuned for the official python package release next week! Any feature suggestions are more than welcome 😃
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    David McAllister
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    Jan 14, 2025
    Replying to @davidrmcall
    Please see our paper for more details or blog for intuitive and interactive explanations. Blog: decentralizeddiffusion.github.io Paper:
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    Decentralized Diffusion Models
    Large-scale AI model training divides work across thousands of GPUs, then synchronizes gradients across them at each step. This incurs a significant network burden that only centralized,...
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    David McAllister
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    Jan 14, 2025
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    Standard diffusion models communicate gradients at every optimization step, a network load that only centralized clusters can support. Decentralized diffusion models divide training into independent pieces that can proceed on different hardware in different locations. This is a
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    David McAllister
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    Jul 29, 2025
    Replying to @vitransformer
    Plotly, JavaScript and Cursor!
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    David McAllister
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    Jul 31, 2025
    Anything is possible with Viser!
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    Brent Yi
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    Jul 31, 2025
    July has been a big month for Viser! - Released v1.0.0😊 - We did some writing Some demos👇
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    David McAllister
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    Jan 14, 2025
    Replying to @davidrmcall
    This was only possible thanks to mentors Matthew Tancik and Jiaming Song (@baaadas), as well as the support of the rest of the fantastic @LumaLabsAI research team! Thank you for hosting me as an intern.
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    David McAllister
    @davidrmcall
    Jan 14, 2025
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    This produces an ensemble whose predictions combine at test-time. You can drop experts at test-time to save on computation. In fact, we only inference a single expert per step in our comparisons and we outperform standard diffusion models for with the same FLOP budgets at train
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