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Junfan Lin

8 accepted papers

2026

Learning Task-Invariant Properties Via Dreamer: Enabling Efficient Policy Transfer for Quadruped Robots

ICRA 2026poster

Achieving quadruped robot locomotion across diverse and dynamic terrains presents significant challenges, primarily due to the discrepancies between simulation environments and real-world conditions. Traditional sim-to-real transfer methods often rely on manual feature design or costly real-world fi…

2026

Master Skill Learning with Policy-Grounded Synergy of LLM-based Reward Shaping and Exploring

ICLR 2026poster

The acquisition of robotic skills via reinforcement learning (RL) is crucial for advancing embodied intelligence, but designing effective reward functions for complex tasks remains challenging. Recent methods using large language models (LLMs) can generate reward functions from language instructions…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Efficient Language-instructed Skill Acquisition via Reward-Policy Co-Evolution

AAAI 2025technical

The ability to autonomously explore and resolve tasks with minimal human guidance is crucial for the self-development of embodied intelligence. Although reinforcement learning methods can largely ease human effort, it's challenging to design reward functions for real-world tasks, especially for hig…

2024

PIVOT-R: Primitive-Driven Waypoint-Aware World Model for Robotic Manipulation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Language-guided robotic manipulation is a challenging task that requires an embodied agent to follow abstract user instructions to accomplish various complex manipulation tasks. Previous work generally maps instructions and visual perceptions directly to low-level executable actions, neglecting the…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

VidMan: Exploiting Implicit Dynamics from Video Diffusion Model for Effective Robot Manipulation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent advancements utilizing large-scale video data for learning video generation models demonstrate significant potential in understanding complex physical dynamics. It suggests the feasibility of leveraging diverse robot trajectory data to develop a unified, dynamics-aware model to enhance robot…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

Being Comes From Not-Being: Open-Vocabulary Text-to-Motion Generation With Wordless Training

CVPR 2023highlight

Text-to-motion generation is an emerging and challenging problem, which aims to synthesize motion with the same semantics as the input text. However, due to the lack of diverse labeled training data, most approaches either limit to specific types of text annotations or require online optimizations t…

2023

DenseLight: Efficient Control for Large-scale Traffic Signals with Dense Feedback

IJCAI 2023poster

Traffic Signal Control (TSC) aims to reduce the average travel time of vehicles in a road network, which in turn enhances fuel utilization efficiency, air quality, and road safety, benefiting society as a whole. Due to the complexity of long-horizon control and coordination, most prior TSC methods l…

2021

Continuous Transition: Improving Sample Efficiency for Continuous Control Problems via MixUp

ICRA 2021poster

Although deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to a variety of robotic control tasks, it’s still challenging to apply it to real-world tasks, due to the poor sample efficiency. Attempting to overcome this shortcoming, several works focus on reusing the collected trajectory d…

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