Yi Ma Reaffirms Closed-Loop Learning: End-to-End Models Will Return to Feedback

YiMaTweets · x · 2026-08-06

UC Berkeley professor Yi Ma reflects on the evolution of AI architectures over the past few years. He notes that while the industry enthusiastically celebrated end-to-end models, his team made the controversial argument that all truly intelligent systems must learn via closed-loop feedback (detailed in their paper 'CTRL: closed-loop transcription'). Although the paper struggled to get published in main ML venues at the time, Ma believes the industry is eventually making a full circle back to this correct approach, predicting it will soon become mainstream.

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