--- title: "Danny Driess — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Danny Driess: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 22 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danny-driess/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danny-driess/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Danny Driess # Danny Driess Danny Driess has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/), [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Brian Ichter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-ichter/), [Andy Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andy-zeng/), [Chelsea Finn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chelsea-finn/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5080239685) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-1659) · [**h-index 22**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5080239685) · [60 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5080239685) · [2,672 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5080239685&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danny-driess/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 686 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danny-driess/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6339](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/64/#star-6339) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Danny+Driess) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Danny+Driess) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Danny+Driess) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Danny+Driess) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 2017–2021 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) · [🎓**Technische Universität Berlin** Berlin · Germany 2021–2024 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-berlin/) · [🔬**Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems** Stuttgart · Germany 2020–2021 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-institute-for-intelligent-systems/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2023–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Control and Systems Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/control-and-systems-engineering/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) 💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Subword tokenization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/subword-tokenization/) · [Tokenization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danny-driess/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danny-driess/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pertsch-2025-fast-efficient-action-tokenization-vision/)** *(2025 · 123 citations)* The authors investigate how to convert continuous robot control signals into discrete tokens for autoregressive VLA models. 2. **[Large Language Models as General Pattern Machines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mirchandani-2023-large-language-models-general-pattern/)** *(2023 · 88 citations)* The paper asks whether pre-trained LLMs, used with no fine-tuning, can act as generic engines for recognizing and continuing abstract, non-linguistic patterns, and whether this skill transfers to low-level robot control. ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03378) arXiv:2303.03378 · no summary yet**Danny Driess et al.*2023 · 700 citations* 2. **[Towards Generalist Biomedical AI ↗](https://doi.org/10.1056/aioa2300138) NEJM AI · no summary yet**Tao Tu et al.*2024 · 532 citations* 3. **[Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08864) arXiv:2310.08864 · no summary yet**Embodiment Collaboration et al.*2023 · 204 citations* 4. [**FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models arXiv:2501.09747**Karl Pertsch, Kyle Stachowicz, Brian Ichter, et al.*2025 · 123 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pertsch-2025-fast-efficient-action-tokenization-vision/) 5. [**Large Language Models as General Pattern Machines arXiv:2307.04721**Suvir Mirchandani, Fei Xia, Pete Florence, et al.*2023 · 88 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mirchandani-2023-large-language-models-general-pattern/) 6. **[Foundation Models in Robotics: Applications, Challenges, and the Future ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07843) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Roya Firoozi et al.*2023 · 33 citations* 7. **[PIVOT: Iterative Visual Prompting Elicits Actionable Knowledge for VLMs ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07872) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Soroush Nasiriany et al.*2024 · 21 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Brian Ichter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-ichter/) ×2 - [Andy Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andy-zeng/) - [Chelsea Finn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chelsea-finn/) - [Dorsa Sadigh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dorsa-sadigh/) - [Fei Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-xia/) - [Sergey Levine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sergey-levine/) - [Suraj Nair](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/suraj-nair/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - NEJM AI ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 686 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [120 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danny-driess/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026