collaborators

7 papers

cs.RO2026

MAGNIFIED: RL Fine-tuning of Multimodal Large Language Models for Motion Planning

Letian Chen, Yiren Lu, Justin Fu +5

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in semantic understanding and common sense reasoning, making them promising candidates for solvi…

cs.CL2026

PulseCol: Periodically Refreshed Column-Sparse Attention for Accelerating Diffusion Language Models

Yanyi Lyu, Letian Chen, Futing Sun +3

Inference in diffusion large language models (dLLMs) is computationally expensive, as full self-attention must be repeatedly executed at each step of the denoising process without…

cs.CL2026

FlowLM: Few-Step Language Modeling via Diffusion-to-Flow Adaptation

Runzhe Zhang, Letian Chen, Wenpeng Zhang +2

We present FlowLM, a flow matching language model transformed from pre-trained diffusion language models via efficient fine-tuning. By re-aligning the curved sampling trajectories…

cs.AI2025

Towards Automated Semantic Interpretability in Reinforcement Learning via Vision-Language Models

Zhaoxin Li, Zhang Xi-Jia, Batuhan Altundas +3

Semantic interpretability in Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables transparency and verifiability of decision-making. Achieving semantic interpretability in reinforcement learning re…

cs.RO2025

Faster Model Predictive Control via Self-Supervised Initialization Learning

Zhaoxin Li, Xiaoke Wang, Letian Chen +3

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is widely used in robot control by optimizing a sequence of control outputs over a finite-horizon. Computational approaches for MPC include determini…

cs.LG2025

Fast Lifelong Adaptive Inverse Reinforcement Learning from Demonstrations

Letian Chen, Sravan Jayanthi, Rohan Paleja +3

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) approaches empower end-users to teach robots novel tasks via demonstrations of the desired behaviors, democratizing access to robotics. However, c…