7 papers
An Edge-Host-Cloud Architecture for Robot-Agnostic, Caregiver-in-the-Loop Personalized Cognitive Exercise: Multi-Site Deployment in Dementia Care
Wenzheng Zhao, Ruth Palan Lopez, Shu Fen Wung +1
We present Speaking Memories, a distributed, stakeholder-in-the-loop robotic interaction platform for personalized cognitive exercise support. Rather than a single robot-centric sy…
Heracles: Bridging Precise Tracking and Generative Synthesis for General Humanoid Control
Zelin Tao, Zeran Su, Peiran Liu +13
Achieving general-purpose humanoid control requires a delicate balance between the precise execution of commanded motions and the flexible, anthropomorphic adaptability needed to r…
SafeScreen: A Safety-First Screening Framework for Personalized Video Retrieval for Vulnerable Users
Wenzheng Zhao, Madhava Kalyan Gadiputi, Fengpei Yuan
Open-domain video platforms offer rich, personalized content that could support health, caregiving, and educational applications, but their engagement-optimized recommendation algo…
Bridging the Awareness Gap: Socially Mediated State Externalization for Transparent Distributed Home Robots
Wenzheng Zhao, Manideep Duggi, Fengpei Yuan
Distributed multi-robot systems for the home often require robots to operate out of the user's sight, creating a state awareness gap that can diminish trust and perceived transpare…
VisionCreator: A Native Visual-Generation Agentic Model with Understanding, Thinking, Planning and Creation
Jinxiang Lai, Zexin Lu, Jiajun He +11
Visual content creation tasks demand a nuanced understanding of design conventions and creative workflows-capabilities challenging for general models, while workflow-based agents l…
LLMs for High-Frequency Decision-Making: Normalized Action Reward-Guided Consistency Policy Optimization
Yang Zhao, Zihao Li, Zhiyu Jiang +3
While Large Language Models (LLMs) form the cornerstone of sequential decision-making agent development, they have inherent limitations in high-frequency decision tasks. Existing r…