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20222026
most citedWhat Went Wrong? Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap via Differentiable Causal Discovery

4 citations · 7 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.RO2026

Co-Evolving Robot Orchestrators and Policies through Deployment

Xilun Zhang, Maggie Wang, Erik Bauer +4

Vision-language-action (VLA) policies trained on large datasets are capable within their training domains, yet they still fail to generalize to the variety of situations a robot me…

cs.RO2026

Scaling Verification Can Be More Effective than Scaling Policy Learning for Vision-Language-Action Alignment

Jacky Kwok, Xilun Zhang, Mengdi Xu +4

The long-standing vision of general-purpose robots hinges on their ability to understand and act upon natural language instructions. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have made r…

cs.RO2024

Dynamics as Prompts: In-Context Learning for Sim-to-Real System Identifications

Xilun Zhang, Shiqi Liu, Peide Huang +4

Sim-to-real transfer remains a significant challenge in robotics due to the discrepancies between simulated and real-world dynamics. Traditional methods like Domain Randomization o…

cs.RO2024

Learning Robust Policies via Interpretable Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability-Guided Disturbances

Hanyang Hu, Xilun Zhang, Xubo Lyu +1

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown remarkable success in robotics with complex and heterogeneous dynamics. However, its vulnerability to unknown disturbances and adversaria…

cs.RO2023★ 3 cited

Creative Robot Tool Use with Large Language Models

Mengdi Xu, Peide Huang, Wenhao Yu +7

Tool use is a hallmark of advanced intelligence, exemplified in both animal behavior and robotic capabilities. This paper investigates the feasibility of imbuing robots with the ab…

cs.RO2023★ 4 cited

What Went Wrong? Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap via Differentiable Causal Discovery

Peide Huang, Xilun Zhang, Ziang Cao +6

Training control policies in simulation is more appealing than on real robots directly, as it allows for exploring diverse states in an efficient manner. Yet, robot simulators inev…

cs.LG2022

Continual Vision-based Reinforcement Learning with Group Symmetries

Shiqi Liu, Mengdi Xu, Piede Huang +3

Continual reinforcement learning aims to sequentially learn a variety of tasks, retaining the ability to perform previously encountered tasks while simultaneously developing new po…