Thomas Kollar

Principal Researcher, Wayve

Joined

July 2019

Names

Thomas Kollar

Emails

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

****@tri.global (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@pm.me (Confirmed)

****@wayve.ai (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

Wayve (wayve.ai)

2024 – Present

Principal Researcher

Toyota Research Institute (tri.global)

2018 – 2024

Principal Researcher

Amazon (amazon.com)

2015 – 2018

Researcher

Apple (apple.com)

2013 – 2015

Postdoc

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

2011 – 2013

PhD student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2004 – 2011

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Manuela Veloso

2011 – 2013

PhD Advisor

Nicholas Roy

2004 – 2011

Expertise

Large Language Models

2020 – Present

Embodied Foundation Modles

2020 – Present

Natural Language Processing (LLMs)

2004 – Present

Robotics

2004 – Present

Vision Language Models

2004 – Present

Publications

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
GHIL-Glue: Hierarchical Control with Filtered Subgoal Images
Kyle Beltran Hatch, Ashwin Balakrishna, Oier Mees, Suraj Nair, Seohong Park, Blake Wulfe, Masha Itkina, Benjamin Eysenbach, Sergey Levine, Thomas Kollar, Benjamin Burchfiel
- CoRL 2024 Workshop MRM-D 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
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
DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
Alexander Khazatsky, Karl Pertsch, Suraj Nair, Ashwin Balakrishna, Sudeep Dasari, Siddharth Karamcheti, Soroush Nasiriany, Mohan Kumar Srirama, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Kirsty Ellis, Peter David Fagan, Joey Hejna, Masha Itkina, Marion Lepert, Yecheng Jason Ma, Patrick Tree Miller, Jimmy Wu, Suneel Belkhale, Shivin Dass, Huy Ha et al. (78 additional authors not shown)
- DGR@RSS2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model
Moo Jin Kim, Karl Pertsch, Siddharth Karamcheti, Ted Xiao, Ashwin Balakrishna, Suraj Nair, Rafael Rafailov, Ethan P Foster, Pannag R Sanketi, Quan Vuong, Thomas Kollar, Benjamin Burchfiel, Russ Tedrake, Dorsa Sadigh, Sergey Levine, Percy Liang, Chelsea Finn
- CoRL 2024
- Readers: Everyone
DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models
Jeffrey Li, Alex Fang, Georgios Smyrnis, Maor Ivgi, Matt Jordan, Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Hritik Bansal, Etash Kumar Guha, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora, Saurabh Garg, Rui Xin, Niklas Muennighoff, Reinhard Heckel, Jean Mercat, Mayee F Chen, Suchin Gururangan, Mitchell Wortsman, Alon Albalak, Yonatan Bitton et al. (39 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Critical Evaluation of AI Feedback for Aligning Large Language Models
Archit Sharma, Sedrick Keh, Eric Mitchell, Chelsea Finn, Kushal Arora, Thomas Kollar
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- 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)
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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