Jiale Zhi

ML @ FAIR, ex-Uber AI Labs, ex-Cloudflare

SAM, Perception Encoder, PerceptionLM, POET... Author of Fiber.

Research Interests

Deep Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Distributed Systems

Selected Publications

Perception Encoder: The Best Visual Embeddings Are Not at the Output of the Network

Daniel Bolya, Po-Yao Huang, Peize Sun, Jang Hyun Cho, Andrea Madotto, Chen Wei, Tengyu Ma, Jiale Zhi, Jathushan Rajasegaran, Hanoona Rasheed, Junke Wang, Marco Monteiro, Hu Xu, Shiyu Dong, Nikhila Ravi, Daniel Li, Piotr Dollár, Christoph Feichtenhofer

NeurIPS 2025 (Oral), 2025

Paper Code
Enhanced POET: Open-Ended Reinforcement Learning through Unbounded Invention of Learning Challenges and their Solutions

Rui Wang, Joel Lehman, Aditya Rawal, Jiale Zhi, Yulun Li, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley

ICML 2020, 2020

Paper Blog
Fiber: A Platform for Efficient Development and Distributed Training for Reinforcement Learning and Population-Based Methods

Jiale Zhi, Rui Wang, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley

arXiv preprint, 2020

Paper Code Blog
A Hands-On Guide to Distributed Computing Paradigms for Evolutionary Computation

Rui Wang, Jiale Zhi

GECCO 2020, 2020

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An Atari Model Zoo for Analyzing, Visualizing, and Comparing Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents

Felipe Petroski Such, Vashisht Madhavan, Rosanne Liu, Rui Wang, Pablo Samuel Castro, Yulun Li, Jiale Zhi, Ludwig Schubert, Marc G. Bellemare, Jeff Clune, Joel Lehman

IJCAI 2019, 2019

Paper Code Blog

Recent Posts

What are World Models

February 07, 2026

Disclaimer: this post is far from complete. It reflects my personal view of a small slice of a much bigger and fast-moving literature.
Welcome to My Blog

January 15, 2024

Welcome to my new blog! I’ll be writing about machine learning, distributed systems, and other topics that interest me. What to Expect This blog ...

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