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20172026
most citedInteractive Differentiable Simulation

31 citations · 88 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.AI2026

CHORUS: Complementary Experts for High-Coverage Testbench Stimulus Generation

Hejia Zhang, Sheng Lu, Zhongming Yu +3

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced code generation, where executable feedback provides a more reliable learning signal than textual imitation alone. Hardware verification i…

cs.CL2026

Language Equality has a Price: A Systematic Investigation of Multi-turn LLM Performance for EU-24+

Sherzod Hakimov, Karl Osswald, Jelle Psurek +3

We evaluate large language models (LLMs) as language agents playing goal-directed dialogue games in self-play across 30 languages: the 24 official EU languages plus six others. Unl…

cs.CL2026

FinHardBench: Can LLMs Generate Latency-Aware Hardware for Financial Computing?

Weimin Fu, Hejia Zhang, Minghao Shao +6

Can large language models generate not just correct, but fast hardware? This paper investigates the question in financial FPGA design, where 5-10 nanoseconds of latency determines…

cs.SE2026

CodeNib: A Multi-View Data System for Serving Repository Context to Coding Agents

Zhongming Yu, Hengjia Yu, Boqin Yuan +12

An incremental code index can complete every update without error and still return the wrong graph half the time. Coding agents depend on such reused views for search and navigatio…

cs.AI2026

Agentifying Patient Dynamics within LLMs through Interacting with Clinical World Model

Minghao Wu, Yuting Yan, Zhenyang Cai +9

Sepsis management in the ICU requires sequential treatment decisions under rapidly evolving patient physiology. Although large language models (LLMs) encode broad clinical knowledg…

cs.MA2026

ChipMATE: Multi-Agent Training via Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced RTL Generation

Zhongkai Yu, Yichen Lin, Chenyang Zhou +12

Existing API-based agentic systems for RTL code generation are fundamentally misaligned with industrial practice: they assume a golden testbench is available at generation time, re…

cs.AI2026

LLM4Cov: Execution-Aware Agentic Learning for High-coverage Testbench Generation

Hejia Zhang, Zhongming Yu, Chia-Tung Ho +3

Execution-aware LLM agents offer a promising paradigm for learning from tool feedback, but such feedback can be expensive and slow to obtain, making online reinforcement learning (…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

ManipBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Low-Level Robot Manipulation

Enyu Zhao, Vedant Raval, Hejia Zhang +5

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence and robotics due to their commonsense reasoning capabilities. In robotic manipulation, VLMs are used prima…

cs.SE2025

OrcaLoca: An LLM Agent Framework for Software Issue Localization

Zhongming Yu, Hejia Zhang, Yujie Zhao +4

Recent developments in Large Language Model (LLM) agents are revolutionizing Autonomous Software Engineering (ASE), enabling automated coding, problem fixes, and feature improvemen…

cs.RO2024

GPT-Fabric: Smoothing and Folding Fabric by Leveraging Pre-Trained Foundation Models

Vedant Raval, Enyu Zhao, Hejia Zhang +2

Fabric manipulation has applications in folding blankets, handling patient clothing, and protecting items with covers. It is challenging for robots to perform fabric manipulation s…

cs.RO2023

Multi-Robot Geometric Task-and-Motion Planning for Collaborative Manipulation Tasks

Hejia Zhang, Shao-Hung Chan, Jie Zhong +6

We address multi-robot geometric task-and-motion planning (MR-GTAMP) problems in synchronous, monotone setups. The goal of the MR-GTAMP problem is to move objects with multiple rob…

cs.CL2023★ 9 cited

Effective Long-Context Scaling of Foundation Models

Wenhan Xiong, Jingyu Liu, Igor Molybog +18

We present a series of long-context LLMs that support effective context windows of up to 32,768 tokens. Our model series are built through continual pretraining from Llama 2 with l…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Surrogate Assisted Generation of Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios

Varun Bhatt, Heramb Nemlekar, Matthew C. Fontaine +4

As human-robot interaction (HRI) systems advance, so does the difficulty of evaluating and understanding the strengths and limitations of these systems in different environments an…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

PATO: Policy Assisted TeleOperation for Scalable Robot Data Collection

Shivin Dass, Karl Pertsch, Hejia Zhang +3

Large-scale data is an essential component of machine learning as demonstrated in recent advances in natural language processing and computer vision research. However, collecting l…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

A MIP-Based Approach for Multi-Robot Geometric Task-and-Motion Planning

Hejia Zhang, Shao-Hung Chan, Jie Zhong +3

We address multi-robot geometric task-and-motion planning (MR-GTAMP) problems in synchronous, monotone setups. The goal of the MR-GTAMP problem is to move objects with multiple rob…

cs.AI2020★ 3 cited

Video Game Level Repair via Mixed Integer Linear Programming

Hejia Zhang, Matthew C. Fontaine, Amy K. Hoover +3

Recent advancements in procedural content generation via machine learning enable the generation of video-game levels that are aesthetically similar to human-authored examples. Howe…

stat.AP2020★ 18 cited

Incorporating structured assumptions with probabilistic graphical models in fMRI data analysis

Ming Bo Cai, Michael Shvartsman, Anqi Wu +2

With the wide adoption of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) by cognitive neuroscience researchers, large volumes of brain imaging data have been accumulated in recent ye…

eess.SY2020★ 8 cited

An Efficient Hardware Accelerator for Structured Sparse Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGAs

Chaoyang Zhu, Kejie Huang, Shuyuan Yang +3

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of applications. However, deeper CNN models, which are usually computation cons…

cs.RO2019★ 1 cited

Zero-Shot Imitating Collaborative Manipulation Plans from YouTube Cooking Videos

Hejia Zhang, Jie Zhong, Stefanos Nikolaidis

People often watch videos on the web to learn how to cook new recipes, assemble furniture or repair a computer. We wish to enable robots with the very same capability. This is chal…

cs.LG2019★ 31 cited

Interactive Differentiable Simulation

Eric Heiden, David Millard, Hejia Zhang +1

Intelligent agents need a physical understanding of the world to predict the impact of their actions in the future. While learning-based models of the environment dynamics have con…

cs.RO2018

Simulator Predictive Control: Using Learned Task Representations and MPC for Zero-Shot Generalization and Sequencing

Zhanpeng He, Ryan Julian, Eric Heiden +5

Simulation-to-real transfer is an important strategy for making reinforcement learning practical with real robots. Successful sim-to-real transfer systems have difficulty producing…

cs.RO2018★ 8 cited

Auto-conditioned Recurrent Mixture Density Networks for Learning Generalizable Robot Skills

Hejia Zhang, Eric Heiden, Stefanos Nikolaidis +2

Personal robots assisting humans must perform complex manipulation tasks that are typically difficult to specify in traditional motion planning pipelines, where multiple objectives…

cs.LG2018

Scaling simulation-to-real transfer by learning composable robot skills

Ryan Julian, Eric Heiden, Zhanpeng He +5

We present a novel solution to the problem of simulation-to-real transfer, which builds on recent advances in robot skill decomposition. Rather than focusing on minimizing the simu…

cs.CV2017★ 6 cited

Segmenting Brain Tumors with Symmetry

Hejia Zhang, Xia Zhu, Theodore L. Willke

We explore encoding brain symmetry into a neural network for a brain tumor segmentation task. A healthy human brain is symmetric at a high level of abstraction, and the high-level…