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20202026
most citedWhen to Trust Your Simulator: Dynamics-Aware Hybrid Offline-and-Online Reinforcement Learning

7 citations · 16 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.RO2026

HiRE: Hindsight Reward Editing for Policy Finetuning

Haoyi Niu, Zhengtao Han, Yufeng Ji +2

Pre-trained robot policies always require finetuning to adapt to specific environments. Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers high performance potential because it improves action opt…

cs.LG2026

ODEWorld: A Continuous Predictive Architecture via Physical-Time Flow

Dongxiu Liu, Haoyi Niu, Peng Cheng +5

In the physical world we inhabit, space and time are fundamentally continuous. However, existing machine learning paradigms for world modeling are largely confined to discrete-time…

cs.AI2026

Action QFormer: Structured Representation Shaping under Action Supervision in Vision-Language-Action Models

Yufeng Ji, Wenhao Tang, Haoyi Niu +3

Action supervision in vision-language-action (VLA) models is often treated as a downstream objective for learning action prediction. In this paper, we study it instead as a force t…

cs.RO2025

A Recipe for Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer in Manipulation with Online Imitation-Pretrained World Models

Yilin Wang, Shangzhe Li, Haoyi Niu +4

We are interested in solving the problem of imitation learning with a limited amount of real-world expert data. Existing offline imitation methods often struggle with poor data cov…

cs.RO2025

PhysiAgent: An Embodied Agent Framework in Physical World

Zhihao Wang, Jianxiong Li, Jinliang Zheng +6

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved notable success but often struggle with limited generalizations. To address this, integrating generalized Vision-Language Models (…

cs.RO2025

Efficient Robotic Policy Learning via Latent Space Backward Planning

Dongxiu Liu, Haoyi Niu, Zhihao Wang +6

Current robotic planning methods often rely on predicting multi-frame images with full pixel details. While this fine-grained approach can serve as a generic world model, it introd…

cs.LG2025

Skill Expansion and Composition in Parameter Space

Tenglong Liu, Jianxiong Li, Yinan Zheng +4

Humans excel at reusing prior knowledge to address new challenges and developing skills while solving problems. This paradigm becomes increasingly popular in the development of aut…

cs.LG2024

Are Expressive Models Truly Necessary for Offline RL?

Guan Wang, Haoyi Niu, Jianxiong Li +3

Among various branches of offline reinforcement learning (RL) methods, goal-conditioned supervised learning (GCSL) has gained increasing popularity as it formulates the offline RL…

cs.RO2024

xTED: Cross-Domain Adaptation via Diffusion-Based Trajectory Editing

Haoyi Niu, Qimao Chen, Tenglong Liu +5

Reusing pre-collected data from different domains is an appealing solution for decision-making tasks, especially when data in the target domain are limited. Existing cross-domain p…

cs.RO2024

DecisionNCE: Embodied Multimodal Representations via Implicit Preference Learning

Jianxiong Li, Jinliang Zheng, Yinan Zheng +9

Multimodal pretraining is an effective strategy for the trinity of goals of representation learning in autonomous robots: 1) extracting both local and global task progressions; 2)…

cs.RO2024

A Comprehensive Survey of Cross-Domain Policy Transfer for Embodied Agents

Haoyi Niu, Jianming Hu, Guyue Zhou +1

The burgeoning fields of robot learning and embodied AI have triggered an increasing demand for large quantities of data. However, collecting sufficient unbiased data from the targ…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Stackelberg Driver Model for Continual Policy Improvement in Scenario-Based Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving

Haoyi Niu, Qimao Chen, Yingyue Li +2

The deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has faced hurdles due to the dominance of rare but critical corner cases within the long-tail distribution of driving scenarios, which n…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Continual Driving Policy Optimization with Closed-Loop Individualized Curricula

Haoyi Niu, Yizhou Xu, Xingjian Jiang +1

The safety of autonomous vehicles (AV) has been a long-standing top concern, stemming from the absence of rare and safety-critical scenarios in the long-tail naturalistic driving d…

cs.LG2023

H2O+: An Improved Framework for Hybrid Offline-and-Online RL with Dynamics Gaps

Haoyi Niu, Tianying Ji, Bingqi Liu +7

Solving real-world complex tasks using reinforcement learning (RL) without high-fidelity simulation environments or large amounts of offline data can be quite challenging. Online R…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

(Re)H2O: Autonomous Driving Scenario Generation via Reversely Regularized Hybrid Offline-and-Online Reinforcement Learning

Haoyi Niu, Kun Ren, Yizhou Xu +4

Autonomous driving and its widespread adoption have long held tremendous promise. Nevertheless, without a trustworthy and thorough testing procedure, not only does the industry str…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Discriminator-Guided Model-Based Offline Imitation Learning

Wenjia Zhang, Haoran Xu, Haoyi Niu +5

Offline imitation learning (IL) is a powerful method to solve decision-making problems from expert demonstrations without reward labels. Existing offline IL methods suffer from sev…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

When to Trust Your Simulator: Dynamics-Aware Hybrid Offline-and-Online Reinforcement Learning

Haoyi Niu, Shubham Sharma, Yiwen Qiu +4

Learning effective reinforcement learning (RL) policies to solve real-world complex tasks can be quite challenging without a high-fidelity simulation environment. In most cases, we…

cs.RO2021★ 4 cited

A Versatile and Efficient Reinforcement Learning Framework for Autonomous Driving

Guan Wang, Haoyi Niu, Desheng Zhu +3

Heated debates continue over the best autonomous driving framework. The classic modular pipeline is widely adopted in the industry owing to its great interpretability and stability…

cs.RO2021

DR2L: Surfacing Corner Cases to Robustify Autonomous Driving via Domain Randomization Reinforcement Learning

Haoyi Niu, Jianming Hu, Zheyu Cui +1

How to explore corner cases as efficiently and thoroughly as possible has long been one of the top concerns in the context of deep reinforcement learning (DeepRL) autonomous drivin…

cs.AI2020

Tactical Decision Making for Emergency Vehicles Based on A Combinational Learning Method

Haoyi Niu, Jianming Hu, Zheyu Cui +1

Increasing the response time of emergency vehicles(EVs) could lead to an immeasurable loss of property and life. On this account, tactical decision making for EVs' microscopic cont…