collaborators

7 papers

cs.RO2026

Embodied-R1.5: Evolving Physical Intelligence via Embodied Foundation Models

Yifu Yuan, Yaoting Huang, Xianze Yao +20

We introduce Embodied-R1.5, a unified Embodied Foundation Model (EFM) that integrates comprehensive embodied reasoning capabilities, spanning embodied cognition, task planning, cor…

cs.LG2026

Optimizing Visual Generative Models via Distribution-wise Rewards

Ruihang Li, Mengde Xu, Shuyang Gu +4

Conventional reinforcement learning strategies for visual generation typically employ sample-wise reward functions, yet this practice frequently results in reward hacking that degr…

cs.CV2026

Distribution Matching Variational AutoEncoder

Sen Ye, Jianning Pei, Mengde Xu +4

Most visual generative models compress images into a latent space before applying diffusion or autoregressive modelling. Yet, existing approaches such as VAEs and foundation model…

cs.CV2026

Understanding vs. Generation: Navigating Optimization Dilemma in Multimodal Models

Sen Ye, Mengde Xu, Shuyang Gu +3

Current research in multimodal models faces a key challenge where enhancing generative capabilities often comes at the expense of understanding, and vice versa. We analyzed this tr…

cs.CV2025

X-Omni: Reinforcement Learning Makes Discrete Autoregressive Image Generative Models Great Again

Zigang Geng, Yibing Wang, Yeyao Ma +10

Numerous efforts have been made to extend the ``next token prediction'' paradigm to visual contents, aiming to create a unified approach for both image generation and understanding…

cs.CV2025

Optimal Stepsize for Diffusion Sampling

Jianning Pei, Han Hu, Shuyang Gu

Diffusion models achieve remarkable generation quality but suffer from computational intensive sampling due to suboptimal step discretization. While existing works focus on optimiz…