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40 citations · 53 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CL2026

Multimodal Filesystem Memory For Long-Horizon Embodied Agents

Chloe Su, Jiahan Li, Zhenting Qi +5

Agents operating over long horizons need an effective memory that allows them to reuse their experience throughout long interactions. If the entire history of an interaction is ret…

cs.RO2026

Scaling Online Exploration for Robot Agents

Runhan Huang, Xiangcheng Zhang, Haoyu Chen +17

Robot learning has advanced by scaling demonstration datasets and model capacity; however, deploying a new robot embodiment or task typically necessitates a dedicated teleoperation…

cs.AI2026

Who Improves the Robot? Toward Physical Recursive Self-Improvement

Hai Zhou, Fan Yang, Zeyi Chen +27

Robots are increasingly autonomous in task execution, yet their improvement remains largely human-driven. This study investigates Physical Recursive Self-Improvement (Physical RSI)…

cs.RO2026

DeepJEPA: Scaling World Models from Within

Zijian Jin, Yunbei Zhang, Yuanzhe Liu +5

World-model planners typically scale outward by rolling farther, sampling more trajectories, or optimizing longer, while assigning the same computation to every imagined transition…

cs.RO2026

LIBERO-MAX: Do Robot Policies Adapt When the World Changes?

Yunbei Zhang, Zijian Jin, Yuanzhe Liu +14

Robots must often continue a task after a target moves, the viewpoint shifts, or an obstacle appears, even though their earlier observations and committed actions reflect the previ…

cs.RO2026

DriftWorld: Fast World Modeling through Drifting

Susie Lu, Haonan Chen, Weirui Ye +1

Predictive world models enable robots to simulate the visual outcomes of their actions, but state-of-the-art diffusion-based models remain costly because generating each rollout re…

cs.CV2026

Temporal Backtracking Search for Test-time Generative Video Reasoning

Sejoon Jun, Zheng Ding, Huangyuan Su +2

While test-time scaling has revolutionized reasoning in large language models, generative video reasoning remains bottlenecked by a single-shot paradigm. We demonstrate that search…

cs.CL2026

Self-Improving Language Models with Bidirectional Evolutionary Search

Guowei Xu, Zhenting Qi, Huangyuan Su +4

Search has been proposed as an effective method for self-improving language models and agentic systems, both for post-training sample generation and for inference. However, widely…

cs.AI2026

Scaling Tasks, Not Samples: Mastering Humanoid Control through Multi-Task Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Shaohuai Liu, Weirui Ye, Yilun Du +1

Developing generalist robots capable of mastering diverse skills remains a central challenge in embodied AI. While recent progress emphasizes scaling model parameters and offline d…

cs.LG2025

TreeGRPO: Tree-Advantage GRPO for Online RL Post-Training of Diffusion Models

Zheng Ding, Weirui Ye

Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training is crucial for aligning generative models with human preferences, but its prohibitive computational cost remains a major barrier to widesp…

cs.RO2025

Video2Policy: Scaling up Manipulation Tasks in Simulation through Internet Videos

Weirui Ye, Fangchen Liu, Zheng Ding +3

Simulation offers a promising approach for cheaply scaling training data for generalist policies. To scalably generate data from diverse and realistic tasks, existing algorithms ei…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Learning Manipulation Skills through Robot Chain-of-Thought with Sparse Failure Guidance

Kaifeng Zhang, Zhao-Heng Yin, Weirui Ye +1

Defining reward functions for skill learning has been a long-standing challenge in robotics. Recently, vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in defining reward signals f…

cs.LG2024

EfficientZero V2: Mastering Discrete and Continuous Control with Limited Data

Shengjie Wang, Shaohuai Liu, Weirui Ye +2

Sample efficiency remains a crucial challenge in applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) to real-world tasks. While recent algorithms have made significant strides in improving sample…

cs.RO2023

Reinforcement Learning with Foundation Priors: Let the Embodied Agent Efficiently Learn on Its Own

Weirui Ye, Yunsheng Zhang, Haoyang Weng +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach for solving robotic manipulation tasks. However, it is challenging to apply the RL algorithms directly in the real world. For on…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

Real-time scheduling of renewable power systems through planning-based reinforcement learning

Shaohuai Liu, Jinbo Liu, Weirui Ye +8

The growing renewable energy sources have posed significant challenges to traditional power scheduling. It is difficult for operators to obtain accurate day-ahead forecasts of rene…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Seer: Language Instructed Video Prediction with Latent Diffusion Models

Xianfan Gu, Chuan Wen, Weirui Ye +2

Imagining the future trajectory is the key for robots to make sound planning and successfully reach their goals. Therefore, text-conditioned video prediction (TVP) is an essential…

cs.AI2022★ 1 cited

Spending Thinking Time Wisely: Accelerating MCTS with Virtual Expansions

Weirui Ye, Pieter Abbeel, Yang Gao

One of the most important AI research questions is to trade off computation versus performance since ``perfect rationality" exists in theory but is impossible to achieve in practic…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Planning for Sample Efficient Imitation Learning

Zhao-Heng Yin, Weirui Ye, Qifeng Chen +1

Imitation learning is a class of promising policy learning algorithms that is free from many practical issues with reinforcement learning, such as the reward design issue and the e…

cs.LG2021★ 40 cited

Mastering Atari Games with Limited Data

Weirui Ye, Shaohuai Liu, Thanard Kurutach +2

Reinforcement learning has achieved great success in many applications. However, sample efficiency remains a key challenge, with prominent methods requiring millions (or even billi…