Dinkar Juyal

I am an ML Engineer at Meta, where I’m the tech lead for agent quality on Meta’s Business AI Agents — the feedback loops, evals, training data synthesis, and agentic harness work behind an agent now facilitating 10M+ conversations a week across 200M+ businesses. Previously, I was a Staff ML Researcher and Engineer at PathAI, focused on foundation models and computer vision for digital pathology.

My recent work is on credit assignment and evaluation for long-horizon agents: Self-Credit (dense supervision from sparse outcome rewards via intra-group rescaling), CDBench (controlled multi-fault debugging with RL and iterative repair), and ML-Dev-Bench (evaluating AI agents as ML engineers). Earlier work spans foundation models for pathology (PLUTO), domain generalization (ContriMix, best-performing official submission on the Camelyon17 WILDS leaderboard), and interpretability (Additive MIL), applied clinically in AI-based automation of enrollment criteria and endpoint assessment in liver disease trials (Nature Medicine, 2024). See publications for the full list.

I write about ML research — mostly notes on agents, foundation models, and evaluation. New posts go up on Substack first (see below); some are later mirrored here.

Talks & articles

ongoing projects

A few things I'm actively building and experimenting with:

writing on substack

Recent essays are published on Substack before anywhere else — that's where to find the newest posts.

latest posts

selected publications

  1. PLUTO: Pathology-Universal Transformer
    Dinkar Juyal, Harshith Padigela, Chintan Shah, and 30 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.07905, 2024
    Accepted at ICML 2024 workshops: ML for Life and Material Science, Foundation Models in the Wild, and Accessible and Efficient Foundation Models for Biological Discovery
  2. ContriMix: Scalable Stain Color Augmentation for Domain Generalization without Domain Labels in Digital Pathology
    Tan H. Nguyen, Dinkar Juyal, Jin Li, and 10 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.04527, 2023
    Best-performing official submission on the Camelyon17 track of the Stanford WILDS leaderboard
  3. ML-Dev-Bench: Comparative Analysis of AI Agents on ML Development Workflows
    Harshith Padigela, Chintan Shah, and Dinkar Juyal
    In ICLR 2025 Workshop on Deep Learning for Code (DL4C), 2025
  4. Self-Credit: Credit Assignment for Long-Horizon Agentic RL via Intra-group Rescaling
    Fan Yin and Dinkar Juyal
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.28388, 2026
  5. CDBench: Controlled Multi-Fault Debugging with Reinforcement Learning and Iterative Repair
    Dinkar Juyal
    2025
  6. AI-based Automation of Enrollment Criteria and Endpoint Assessment in Clinical Trials in Liver Diseases
    Janani S. Iyer, Dinkar Juyal, Quang Le, and 28 more authors
    Nature Medicine, 2024