BAIR's Impact

BAIR students, faculty, and sponsors publish widely-cited papers on AI and robotics.

Case Studies:

Paper → Product → Social/Industry Value

THE PAPER

NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis

17,000 Citations

THE PAPER

An Introduction to Variational Methods for Graphical Models

5,000 Citations

THE PAPER

Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO)

11,000 Citations

THE PAPER

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

35,000 Citations

A Global Leader in Generative AI Research

A global analysis (2010-2023) ranked UC Berkeley #2 worldwide in citations to Generative AI scientific publications, second only to Alphabet (Google).

Figure 1.5 Number of citations to GenAI scientific publications for the top 20 institutions, 2010-2023

Alphabet (US)

47,568

University of California, Berkeley (US)

26,090

Université de Montréal (Canada)

20,330

Stanford University (US)

20,099

Meta (US)

19,418

DeepMind (UK/US)

18,135

Seoul National University (Republic of Korea)

17,686

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)

17,683

Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

15,674

Imperial College London (UK)

15,425

Nvidia (US)

12,863

Harvard University (US)

12,038

OpenAI (US)

11,816

Carnegie Mellon University (US)

10,437

University College London (UK)

9,819

Tsinghua University (China)

9,790

Microsoft (US)

9,629

Twitter (US)

9,553

University of Toronto (Canada)

8,845

Indico Research (US)

8,455

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