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James Gardner

@jadgardner.bsky.social

PhD Student @ University of York, UK. I do research on inverse rendering, neural fields, human reconstruction and generative models.

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We are releasing the benchmark (TAPVid360-10k), code, and models. Come say hi at Poster Session 5 (Fri 11:00-14:00)!

📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21946 💻 Code: github.com/finlay-hudso... 🤗 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/fhu... 🌐 Project Page: finlay-hudson.github.io/tapvid360/

03.12.2025 01:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@fhudson.bsky.social and I are both at #NeurIPS! Come chat to us about TAPVid-360, how we adapted CoTracker3 to maintain object permanence even when things vanish completely from view, allocentric world models or other neat data gen tricks!

03.12.2025 01:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

All 2D point tracking methods break as objects leave their FoV, and dynamic object 3D point tracks are intractable to obtain. In TAPVid-360, we exploit 360 videos for supervision, resampling them into narrow field-of-view videos while computing ground truth point directions across the full panorama.

03.12.2025 01:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This was so much fun to work on! I love finding new sources of supervision and 360 video data has so many applications.

03.12.2025 01:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is an incredible collaboration between @willsmithvision.bsky.social, @willrowan.bsky.social and myself. The whole YorkVGL team is now switching all our research code over to Neuralatex and seeing massive productivity gains because of it!

01.04.2025 11:23 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NeuRaLaTeX: A machine learning library written in pure LaTeX In this paper, we introduce NeuRaLaTeX, which we believe to be the first deep learning library written entirely in LaTeX. As part of your LaTeX document you can specify the architecture of a neural ne...

You can check out the source code (and paper!) right now on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187

There is so much work to do! We want this running on GPUs by summer, taping out custom Neuralatex silicon by autumn and starting the run of Neuralatex GPT by the end of the year!

01.04.2025 11:23 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We demonstrate how powerful our library is by training an MLP to 86% accuracy on the spiral dataset with only a moderate 48-hour document compile time!

01.04.2025 11:23 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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And the Source code of the Method in the Source Code of the Paper (SCOMISCOP) metric is the proportion of the source code of a method that is contained within the source code of the paper.

01.04.2025 11:23 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We get state-of-the-art performance in both of our own brand new metrics!

The Written in Latex (WIL) metric is the proportion of the source code of a machine learning library written in LaTeX.

01.04.2025 11:23 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Now, as part of your latex document, you can specify the architecture of a neural network, generate or load training data and define hyperparameters and loss functions. When the document is compiled, the latex compiler will train the network, run experiments and create figures.

01.04.2025 11:23 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is a fully functional scalar-based auto-grad library, similar to Andrej Karpathy's micrograd but in pure Latex!

Simply import our engine.tex and nn.tex files and start training models straight away!

01.04.2025 11:23 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Neuralatex: A machine learning library written in pure LATEX Neuralatex: A machine learning library written in pure LATEX

Are you tired of context-switching between coding models in @pytorch.org and paper writing on @overleaf.com?

Well, I’ve got the fix for you, Neuralatex! An ML library written in pure Latex!

neuralatex.com

To appear in Sigbovik (subject to rigorous review process)

01.04.2025 11:23 — 👍 84    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 12

As we approach the one year anniversary of a T-PAMI submission still waiting for first reviews, I imagine "With Associate Editor" to mean they sit in a lotus position atop a Himalayan peak, our paper and the reviews in their hand as they meditate (indefinitely) on what recommendation to make.

20.11.2024 09:46 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

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