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Hongcheng Wang

8 accepted papers

2026

User-Centric Object Navigation: A Benchmark with Integrated User Habits for Personalized Embodied Object Search

ICRA 2026poster

In the evolving field of robotics, the challenge of Object Navigation (ON) in household environments has attracted significant interest. Existing ON benchmarks typically place objects in locations guided by general scene priors, without accounting for the specific placement habits of individual user…

2026

Why Tree-Style Branching Matters for Thought Advantage Estimation in GRPO

ICML 2026poster

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) trains Chain-of-Thought reasoning with verifiable rewards, but estimating thought-level advantages without value functions often suffers from high variance. Although tree-style branching is used in practice to reduce the variance, it lacks a theoretical expl…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Reinforcement learning for one-shot DAG scheduling with comparability identification and dense reward

NeurIPS 2025poster

In recent years, many studies proposed to generate solutions for Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) scheduling problem in one shot by combining reinforcement learning and list scheduling heuristic. However, these existing methods suffer from biased estimation of sampling probabilities and inefficient guid…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

InstructNav: Zero-shot System for Generic Instruction Navigation in Unexplored Environment

CoRL 2024poster

Enabling robots to navigate following diverse language instructions in unexplored environments is an attractive goal for human-robot interaction. However, this goal is challenging because different navigation tasks require different strategies. The scarcity of instruction navigation data hinders tra…

Cited by 34SourceScholar
2024

MO-DDN: A Coarse-to-Fine Attribute-based Exploration Agent for Multi-Object Demand-driven Navigation

NeurIPS 2024poster

The process of satisfying daily demands is a fundamental aspect of humans' daily lives. With the advancement of embodied AI, robots are increasingly capable of satisfying human demands. Demand-driven navigation (DDN) is a task in which an agent must locate an object to satisfy a specified demand ins…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

Find What You Want: Learning Demand-conditioned Object Attribute Space for Demand-driven Navigation

NeurIPS 2023poster

The task of Visual Object Navigation (VON) involves an agent's ability to locate a particular object within a given scene. To successfully accomplish the VON task, two essential conditions must be fulfiled: 1) the user knows the name of the desired object; and 2) the user-specified object actually…

2023

Learning Semantic-Agnostic and Spatial-Aware Representation for Generalizable Visual-Audio Navigation

RA-L 2023

Visual-audio navigation (VAN) is attracting more and more attention from the robotic community due to its broad applications, e.g., household robots and rescue robots. In this task, an embodied agent must search for and navigate to the sound source with egocentric visual and audio observations. Howe

Cited by 12SourcecodeScholar
2019

Layout-Induced Video Representation for Recognizing Agent-in-Place Actions

ICCV 2019poster

We address scene layout modeling for recognizing agent-in-place actions, which are actions associated with agents who perform them and the places where they occur, in the context of outdoor home surveillance. We introduce a novel representation to model the geometry and topology of scene layouts so…

Cited by 4PDFScholar