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20232026
most citedA Better Match for Drivers and Riders: Reinforcement Learning at Lyft

2 citations · 2 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.RO2026

Magic-W0: A Structured World-Action Foundation Model for Physical Intelligence

Xuhua Chen, Zhenhan Yin, Yuan Zhang +15

World-action models (WAMs) augment robot policies with action-conditioned environment dynamics, yet existing approaches largely rely on future observation reconstruction or generic…

cs.CV2026

VQ-Touch: A Data-Efficient Tactile Generation Framework Across Sensors and Scenarios

Kailin Lyu, Long Xiao, Jianing Zeng +3

Tactile image generation significantly reduces the dependency on expensive and wear-prone sensors by synthesizing high-fidelity tactile data, offering an efficient solution for tac…

cs.AI2026

TacReasoner: A Dynamic Tactile-Language Framework for Interactive Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios

Kailin Lyu, Di Wu, Long Xiao +7

Among the five primary human senses, tactile is arguably the most fundamental to survival, as it enables the perception of physical contact and interaction in real-world environmen…

cs.RO2026

UMI-Bench 1.0: An Open and Reproducible Real-World Benchmark for Tabletop Robotic Manipulation with UMI Data

Shi Jin, Yuntian Wang, Yuhui Duan +16

Real-robot evaluation is essential for understanding whether learned manipulation policies can operate reliably outside curated demonstrations. This need is particularly pressing f…

cs.AI2026

TouchThinker: Scaling Tactile Commonsense Reasoning to the Open World with Large-scale Data and Action-aware Representation

Kailin Lyu, Di Wu, Pengwei Zhang +12

Touch is a key modality for embodied agents to understand the physical world. Although recent work has incorporated tactile signals into language systems for tactile commonsense re…

cs.RO2026

Generalizable and Actionable Parts Pose Estimation with Symmetry Annotation-Free Learning Strategy

Wenxiao Chen, Xueyu Yuan, Liu Liu +2

Urgently needed generalizable robot object interaction and manipulation requires high-quality Cross-Category object perception. As a pioneer of this area, Generalizable and Actiona…

cs.RO2026

RoboGene: Diversity-Driven Agentic Task Generation Framework for VLA Pre-training

Yixue Zhang, Kun Wu, Zhi Gao +12

The pursuit of general-purpose robotic manipulation is hindered by the scarcity of diverse, real-world interaction data. Unlike large-scale web vision-language data, robotic data c…

cs.RO2026

RoboAug: One Annotation to Hundreds of Scenes via Region-Contrastive Data Augmentation for Robotic Manipulation

Xinhua Wang, Kun Wu, Zhen Zhao +10

Enhancing the generalization of robotic learning in diverse unseen environments remains a fundamental challenge. Existing approaches often rely on large-scale pretraining, which is…

cs.RO2025

RoboMIND 2.0: A Multimodal, Bimanual Mobile Manipulation Dataset for Generalizable Embodied Intelligence

Chengkai Hou, Kun Wu, Jiaming Liu +30

While data-driven imitation learning has revolutionized robotic manipulation, current approaches remain constrained by the scarcity of large-scale, diverse real-world demonstration…

cs.RO2025

XR-1: Towards Versatile Vision-Language-Action Models via Learning Unified Vision-Motion Representations

Shichao Fan, Kun Wu, Zhengping Che +12

Recent progress in large-scale robotic datasets and vision-language models (VLMs) has advanced research on vision-language-action (VLA) models. However, existing VLA models still f…

cs.RO2025

EgoMI: Learning Active Vision and Whole-Body Manipulation from Egocentric Human Demonstrations

Justin Yu, Yide Shentu, Di Wu +3

Imitation learning from human demonstrations offers a promising approach for robot skill acquisition, but egocentric human data introduces fundamental challenges due to the embodim…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

A Better Match for Drivers and Riders: Reinforcement Learning at Lyft

Xabi Azagirre, Akshay Balwally, Guillaume Candeli +16

To better match drivers to riders in our ridesharing application, we revised Lyft's core matching algorithm. We use a novel online reinforcement learning approach that estimates th…