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Evolving Reasoning

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The sixty-sixth MeetUp of the Machine Learning Singapore Group, was titled : "Gemini Turns 3!" - and had talks covering a wide spectrum.

My Presentation

My talk was titled "Evolving Reasoning", and had the following outline (which includes a substantial amount of content on SAM 3, SAM-3D and SAM-3D-Body):

  • Intro
  • Evolving Reasoning [Level: 300]
    • Current issues with RL
    • Some 'normal' fixes
    • Evolutionary approaches
  • SAM 3 [Level: 100]
    • Segmentation
    • 3D-Objects
    • 3D-Body
  • Wrap-up & QR-code (the latter to reduce audience distractions)

The slides for my talk, which contain links to all of the reference materials and sources, are here :

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Other Presentations

The MeetUp included two other speakers: Nicholas Chen and Sam Witteveen:

  • Nicholas' talk "Memento: Addressing the Most Undervalued Area of Agent Research?" revisited the Memento paper (that I had briefly discussed in August-2025) - adding extra details he got from examining the author's code

  • Sam talked about "New Gemini, New Banana & New Agents" - giving in-depth background information and demoing key aspects of these exciting new launches from Google

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the Google team, who allowed us to use Google's Developer Space, and generously provided food for our audience.