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Kaiyuan Zheng

6 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Next-Token Alignment: Distilling Multimodal Large Language Models via Token Interactions

ICML 2026poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive cross-modal capabilities, yet their substantial size poses significant deployment challenges. Knowledge distillation (KD) is a promising solution for compressing these models, but existing methods primarily rely on static next-token ali…

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2026

DreamDojo: A Real-Time Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos

ICML 2026spotlight

Being able to simulate the outcomes of actions in varied environments will revolutionize the development of generalist agents at scale. However, modeling these world dynamics, especially for dexterous robotics tasks, poses significant challenges due to limited data coverage and scarce action labels.…

Cited by 81SourceScholar
2026

GRAPE: Generalizing Robot Policy Via Preference Alignment

ICRA 2026poster

Despite the recent advancements of vision-language-action (VLA) models on a variety of robotics tasks, they suffer from critical issues such as poor generalizability to unseen tasks, due to their reliance on behavior cloning exclusively from successful rollouts. Furthermore, they are typically fine-…

2025

Anyprefer: An Agentic Framework for Preference Data Synthesis

ICLR 2025poster

High-quality preference data is essential for aligning foundation models with human values through preference learning. However, manual annotation of such data is often time-consuming and costly. Recent methods often adopt a self-rewarding approach, where the target model generates and annotates its…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DreamGen: Unlocking Generalization in Robot Learning through Video World Models

CoRL 2025poster

In this work, we unlock new capabilities in robot learning from neural trajectories, synthetic robot data generated from video world models. Our proposed recipe is simple, but powerful: we take the most recent state-of-the-art video generative models (world models), adapt them to the target robot em…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

ReBot: Scaling Robot Learning with Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robotic Video Synthesis

IROS 2025

Vision-language-action (VLA) models present a promising paradigm by training policies directly on real robot datasets like Open X-Embodiment. However, the high cost of real-world data collection hinders further data scaling, thereby restricting the generalizability of VLAs. In this paper, we introdu

Cited by 22SourceScholar