Achal Dave

Researcher, Anthropic

Joined

February 2019

Names

Achal Dave

Emails

****@cs.cmu.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@tri.global (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Anthropic (anthropic.com)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Toyota Research Institute (tri.global)

2023 – 2024

Researcher

Amazon (amazon.com)

2021 – 2023

PhD student

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

2015 – 2021

Undergrad student

University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2011 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Pavel Tokmakov

2018 – Present

Advisor

Deva Ramanan

2015 – Present

Coauthor

Olga Russakovsky

2015 – 2017

Advisor

Alyosha Efros

2014 – 2015

Expertise

vision language models

Present

Publications

OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models
Etash Kumar Guha, Ryan Marten, Sedrick Keh, Negin Raoof, Georgios Smyrnis, Hritik Bansal, Marianna Nezhurina, Jean Mercat, Trung Vu, Zayne Rea Sprague, Ashima Suvarna, Benjamin Feuer, Leon Liangyu Chen, Zaid Khan, Eric Frankel, Sachin Grover, Caroline Choi, Niklas Muennighoff, Shiye Su, Wanjia Zhao et al. (31 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models
Etash Kumar Guha, Ryan Marten, Sedrick Keh, Negin Raoof, Georgios Smyrnis, Hritik Bansal, Marianna Nezhurina, Jean Mercat, Trung Vu, Zayne Rea Sprague, Ashima Suvarna, Benjamin Feuer, Leon Liangyu Chen, Zaid Khan, Eric Frankel, Sachin Grover, Caroline Choi, Niklas Muennighoff, Shiye Su, Wanjia Zhao et al. (30 additional authors not shown)
- FoRLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
pix2gestalt: Amodal Segmentation by Synthesizing Wholes
Ege Ozguroglu, Ruoshi Liu, Didac Suris Coll-Vinent, Dian Chen, Achal Dave, Pavel Tokmakov, Carl Vondrick
- CVPR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Generative Camera Dolly: Extreme Monocular Dynamic Novel View Synthesis
Basile Van Hoorick, Rundi Wu, Ege Ozguroglu, Kyle Sargent, Ruoshi Liu, Pavel Tokmakov, Achal Dave, Changxi Zheng, Carl Vondrick
- ECCV 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Complexity in VideoQA via Visual Program Generation
Cristobal Eyzaguirre, Igor Vasiljevic, Achal Dave, Jiajun Wu, Rares Andrei Ambrus, Thomas Kollar, Juan Carlos Niebles, Pavel Tokmakov
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Should VLMs be Pre-trained with Image Data?
Sedrick Keh, Jean Mercat, Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Kushal Arora, Igor Vasiljevic, Benjamin Burchfiel, Shuran Song, Russ Tedrake, Thomas Kollar, Ludwig Schmidt, Achal Dave
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
TAO-Amodal: A Benchmark for Tracking Any Object Amodally
Cheng-Yen Hsieh, Kaihua Chen, Achal Dave, Tarasha Khurana, Deva Ramanan
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Language models scale reliably with over-training and on downstream tasks
Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Georgios Smyrnis, Vaishaal Shankar, Suchin Gururangan, Mitchell Wortsman, Rulin Shao, Jean Mercat, Alex Fang, Jeffrey Li, Sedrick Keh, Rui Xin, Marianna Nezhurina, Igor Vasiljevic, Luca Soldaini, Jenia Jitsev, Alex Dimakis, Gabriel Ilharco, Pang Wei Koh, Shuran Song, Thomas Kollar et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Complexity in VideoQA via Visual Program Generation
Cristobal Eyzaguirre, Igor Vasiljevic, Achal Dave, Jiajun Wu, Rares Andrei Ambrus, Thomas Kollar, Juan Carlos Niebles, Pavel Tokmakov
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
GRIN: Zero-Shot Metric Depth with Pixel-Level Diffusion
Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini, Pavel Tokmakov, Achal Dave, Rares Andrei Ambrus
- 3DV 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone

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