Yilun Du Describes Comet Introduction in NeurIPS 2021

Yilun Du, Assistant Professor at Harvard University in the Kempner Institute and CS department and director of the Embodied Minds lab, posted a reply stating his research background. He said that for years AI models treated the world as a generic bag of features. Du wrote that he first introduced Comet as compositional energy concepts that discover independent factors in data. He stated plans to grow his foundational NeurIPS 2021 work into a broader research and ecosystem effort.