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Publications (7)

cs.LG2026

Modularized Reinforcement Learning on LLMs: From MDP Creation to Exploration and Learning

Zhao Yang, Yuxuan Jiang, Ting-Chih Chen +18

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become central to LLM post-training, yet the methods that dominate current pipelines, PPO and GRPO, represent only a narrow slice of what RL offers.…

cs.RO2026

Swim2Real: VLM-Guided System Identification for Sim-to-Real Transfer

Kevin Qiu, Kyle Walker, Mike Y. Michelis +2

We present Swim2Real, a pipeline that calibrates a 16-parameter robotic fish simulator from swimming videos using vision-language model (VLM) feedback, requiring no hand-designed s…

cs.RO2026

Debate2Create: Robot Co-design via Multi-Agent LLM Debate

Kevin Qiu, Marek Cygan

We introduce Debate2Create (D2C), a multi-agent LLM framework that formulates robot co-design as structured, iterative debate grounded in physics-based evaluation. A design agent a…

cs.LG2026

RoboMorph: Evolving Robot Morphology using Large Language Models

Kevin Qiu, Władysław Pałucki, Krzysztof Ciebiera +3

We introduce RoboMorph, an automated approach for generating and optimizing modular robot designs using large language models (LLMs) and evolutionary algorithms. Each robot design…

cs.RO2026

Vid2Sid: Videos Can Help Close the Sim2Real Gap

Kevin Qiu, Yu Zhang, Marek Cygan +1

Calibrating a robot simulator's physics parameters (friction, damping, material stiffness) to match real hardware is often done by hand or with black-box optimizers that reduce err…

cs.RO2026

TAG-K: Tail-Averaged Greedy Kaczmarz for Computationally Efficient and Performant Online Inertial Parameter Estimation

Shuo Sha, Anupam Bhakta, Zhenyuan Jiang +4

Accurate online inertial parameter estimation is essential for adaptive robotic control, enabling real-time adjustment to payload changes, environmental interactions, and system we…