Yale Song

Research Scientist, Google

Joined

September 2018

Names

Yale Song (Preferred)

Emails

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Homepage

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Career & Education History

Research Scientist

Google (google.com)

2025 – Present

Research Scientist

FAIR, Meta (meta.com)

2022 – 2025

Researcher

Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)

2018 – 2022

Research Scientist

Yahoo Research (yahoo-inc.com)

2014 – 2018

PhD student

MIT CSAIL (csail.mit.edu)

2008 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

John W. Fisher

2010 – 2014

PhD Advisor

Louis-Philippe Morency

2010 – 2014

PhD Advisor

Randall Davis

2008 – 2014

PhD Advisor

William T. Freeman

2008 – 2014

Expertise

Representation learning

2012 – Present

Multimodal learning

2008 – Present

Computer vision

2008 – Present

Publications

GUIDE: A Benchmark for Understanding and Assisting Users in Open-Ended GUI Tasks
Saelyne Yang, Jaesang Yu, Yi-Hao Peng, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Jae Won Cho, Yale Song, Juho Kim
- CVPR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
PerceptionLM: Open-Access Data and Models for Detailed Visual Understanding
Jang Hyun Cho, Andrea Madotto, Effrosyni Mavroudi, Triantafyllos Afouras, Tushar Nagarajan, Muhammad Maaz, Yale Song, Tengyu Ma, Shuming Hu, Suyog Jain, Miguel Martin, Huiyu Wang, Hanoona Abdul Rasheed, Peize Sun, Po-Yao Huang, Daniel Bolya, Nikhila Ravi, Shashank Jain, Tammy Stark, Seungwhan Moon et al. (9 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Ego4D Goal-Step: Toward Hierarchical Understanding of Procedural Activities
Yale Song, Gene Byrne, Tushar Nagarajan, Huiyu Wang, Miguel Martin, Lorenzo Torresani
- NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Moving Beyond Handcrafted Architectures in Self-Supervised Learning
Sharath Girish, Debadeepta Dey, Neel Joshi, Vibhav Vineet, Shital Shah, Caio Cesar Teodoro Mendes, Abhinav Shrivastava, Yale Song
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
PatchBlender: A Motion Prior for Video Transformers
Gabriele Prato, Yale Song, Janarthanan Rajendran, R Devon Hjelm, Neel Joshi, Sarath Chandar
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
CausalCity: Complex Simulations with Agency for Causal Discovery and Reasoning
Daniel McDuff, Yale Song, Jiyoung Lee, Vibhav Vineet, Sai Vemprala, Nicholas Alexander Gyde, Hadi Salman, Shuang Ma, Kwanghoon Sohn, Ashish Kapoor
- Published: 09 Feb 2022, Last Modified: 15 Jan 2026
- CLeaR 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Contrastive Learning of Global and Local Video Representations
Shuang Ma, Zhaoyang Zeng, Daniel McDuff, Yale Song
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 26 May 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning of Global-Local Audio-Visual Representations
Shuang Ma, Zhaoyang Zeng, Daniel McDuff, Yale Song
- 28 Sept 2020 (modified: 05 May 2023)
- ICLR 2021 Conference Blind Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Parameter Efficient Multimodal Transformers for Video Representation Learning
Sangho Lee, Youngjae Yu, Gunhee Kim, Thomas Breuel, Jan Kautz, Yale Song
- Published: 12 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- ICLR 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Self-Supervised Learning of Compressed Video Representations
Youngjae Yu, Sangho Lee, Gunhee Kim, Yale Song
- Published: 12 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- ICLR 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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