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Bowen Yang

21 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Continuity: Simulation-free Reconstruction of Discrete Branching Dynamics from Single-cell Snapshots

ICML 2026poster

Inferring cellular trajectories from destructive snapshots is complicated by the challenges of stochasticity and non-conservative mass dynamics such as cell proliferation and apoptosis. Existing unbalanced Optimal Transport (OT) methods treat mass as a continuous fluid, performing inference at the p…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

GuidedVLA: Specifying Task-Relevant Factors via Plug-and-Play Action Attention Specialization

RSS 2026poster

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim for general robot learning by aligning action as a modality within powerful Vision-Language Models (VLM). Existing VLAs rely on end-to-end supervision to implicitly enable the action decoding process to learn task-relevant features. However, without explicit g…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

MMBench-GUI: A Unified Hierarchical Evaluation Framework for Multi-Platform GUI Agents

CVPR 2026

We introduce MMBench-GUI, a hierarchical benchmark for evaluating GUI automation agents across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and Web. The benchmark spans four levels: Content Understanding, Element Grounding, Task Automation, and Task Collaboration, covering essential skills for GUI agents. T

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

MoCHA: Advanced Vision-Language Reasoning with MoE Connector and Hierarchical Group Attention

AAAI 2026technical

Vision large language models (VLLMs) are focusing primarily on handling complex and fine-grained visual information by incorporating advanced vision encoders and scaling up visual models. However, these approaches face high training and inference costs, as well as challenges in extracting visual det

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

OS-Oracle: A Comprehensive Framework for Cross-Platform GUI Critic Models

CVPR 2026

The deployment of autonomous agents in Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments confronts significant challenges, notably error accumulation in long-horizon tasks and the severe consequences of irreversible operations. While critic models that provide real-time action assessment offer a promising

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

OmniEVA: Embodied Versatile Planner via Task-Adaptive 3D-Grounded and Embodiment-aware Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have opened new opportunities for embodied intelligence, enabling multimodal understanding, reasoning, and interaction, as well as continuous spatial decision-making. Nevertheless, current MLLM-based embodied systems face two critical limit…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

ScaleCUA: Scaling Open-Source Computer Use Agents with Cross-Platform Data

ICLR 2026oral

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled computer use agents (CUAs) that operate GUIs autonomously, showing great potential, yet progress is limited by the lack of large-scale, open-source computer use data and foundation models. In this work, we introduce ScaleCUA, a step toward scaling open-sour…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

CORE4D: A 4D Human-Object-Human Interaction Dataset for Collaborative Object REarrangement

CVPR 2025poster

Understanding how humans cooperatively rearrange household objects is critical for VR/AR and human-robot interaction. However, in-depth studies on modeling these behaviors are under-researched due to the lack of relevant datasets. We fill this gap by presenting CORE4D, a novel large-scale 4D human-o…

2025

Language Models Can See Better: Visual Contrastive Decoding For LLM Multimodal Reasoning

ICASSP 2025accepted

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in reasoning and generation for language tasks, they are not specifically designed for multimodal challenges. Training Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), however, is resource-intensive and constrained by various training limitations. In this paper,…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Predictive Uncertainty Quantification for Bird's Eye View Segmentation: A Benchmark and Novel Loss Function

ICLR 2025poster

The fusion of raw sensor data to create a Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation is critical for autonomous vehicle planning and control. Despite the growing interest in using deep learning models for BEV semantic segmentation, anticipating segmentation errors and enhancing the explainability of these…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

Rope to Nope and Back Again: A New Hybrid Attention Strategy

NeurIPS 2025poster

Long-context large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advancements, driven by techniques like Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) (Su et al., 2023) and its extensions (Chen et al., 2023; Liu et al., 2024c; Peng et al., 2023). By adjusting RoPE parameters and incorporating training data wit…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

BeautyMap: Binary-Encoded Adaptable Ground Matrix for Dynamic Points Removal in Global Maps

RA-L 2024

Global point clouds that correctly represent the static environment features can facilitate accurate localization and robust path planning. However, dynamic objects introduce undesired <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">‘ghost’</i> track

Cited by 21SourcecodeScholar
2024

Rethinking Imbalance in Image Super-Resolution for Efficient Inference

NeurIPS 2024poster

Existing super-resolution (SR) methods optimize all model weights equally using $\mathcal{L}_1$ or $\mathcal{L}_2$ losses by uniformly sampling image patches without considering dataset imbalances or parameter redundancy, which limits their performance. To address this, we formulate the image SR tas…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Rethinking Imitation-based Planners for Autonomous Driving

ICRA 2024poster

In recent years, imitation-based driving planners have reported considerable success. However, due to the absence of a standardized benchmark, the effectiveness of various designs remains unclear. The newly released nuPlan addresses this issue by offering a large-scale real-world dataset and a stand…

Cited by 45SourcecodeScholar
2024

SnapKV: LLM Knows What You are Looking for Before Generation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress in processing extensive contexts, with the Key-Value (KV) cache playing a vital role in enhancing their performance. However, the growth of the KV cache in response to increasing input length poses challenges to memory and time efficiency. T…

2023

Real-Time Neural Dense Elevation Mapping for Urban Terrain With Uncertainty Estimations

RA-L 2023

Having good knowledge of terrain information is essential for improving the performance of various downstream tasks on complex terrains, especially for the locomotion and navigation of legged robots. We present a novel framework for neural urban terrain reconstruction with uncertainty estimations. I

Cited by 21SourceScholar
2022

A Centaur System for Assisting Human Walking with Load Carriage

IROS 2022poster

Walking with load is a common task in daily life and disaster rescue. Long-term load carriage may cause irreversible damage to the human body. Although remarkable progress has been made in the field of wearable robots, it is still far from avoiding interference to human legs, which will lead to ener…

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2022

A Piecewise Monotonic Gait Phase Estimation Model for Controlling a Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis in Various Locomotion Modes

RA-L 2022

Gait phase-based control is a trending research topic for walking-aid robots, especially robotic lower-limb prostheses. Gait phase estimation is a challenge for gait phase-based control. Previous researches used the integration or the differential of the human's thigh angle to estimate the gait phas

Cited by 24SourceScholar
2022

An Online Interactive Approach for Crowd Navigation of Quadrupedal Robots

IROS 2022poster

Robot navigation in human crowds remains the challenge of understanding human behaviors in different scenarios. We present an approach for interactive and human-friendly crowd navigation in complex static environments. The planner models the online interactions among the robot, humans, and the stati…

Cited by 7SourceScholar
2022

Improving Conversational Recommendation Systems’ Quality with Context-Aware Item Meta-Information

NAACL 2022findings

A key challenge of Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS) is to integrate the recommendation function and the dialog generation function smoothly. Previous works employ graph neural networks with external knowledge graphs (KG) to model individual recommendation items and integrate KGs with lang…

2021

Real-time Optimal Navigation Planning Using Learned Motion Costs

ICRA 2021poster

Navigation on challenging terrain topographies requires the understanding of robots’ locomotion capabilities to produce optimal solutions. We present an integrated framework for real-time autonomous navigation of mobile robots based on elevation maps. The framework performs rapid global path plannin…

Cited by 37SourceScholar