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Mengkang Hu

17 accepted papers

2026

DAG-Plan: Generating Directed Acyclic Dependency Graphs for Dual-Arm Cooperative Planning

ICRA 2026poster

Dual-arm robots promise greater efficiency but require planning for complex tasks with nonlinear sub-task dependencies. Current methods using Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from a fundamental trade-off: generating linear sequences is efficient but fails to model parallelism and adapt to changes…

2026

RoboTwin 2.0: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark with Strong Domain Randomization for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulation

ICML 2026poster

Simulation-based data synthesis has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing real-world robotic manipulation. However, existing synthetic datasets remain insufficient for robust bimanual manipulation due to two key challenges: (1) the lack of an autonomous self-correcting mechanism to resolve ex…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

AnalogCoder: Analog Circuit Design via Training-Free Code Generation

AAAI 2025technical

Analog circuit design is a significant task in modern chip technology, focusing on the selection of component types, connectivity, and parameters to ensure proper circuit functionality. Despite advances made by Large Language Models (LLMs) in digital circuit design, the complexity and scarcity of da…

2025

Cross-Lingual Text-Rich Visual Comprehension: An Information Theory Perspective

AAAI 2025technical

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown promising reasoning capabilities on text-rich images from charts, tables, and documents. However, the abundant text within such images may increase the model's sensitivity to language. This raises the need to evaluate LVLM performance on cross-…

2025

EMOS: Embodiment-aware Heterogeneous Multi-robot Operating System with LLM Agents

ICLR 2025poster

Heterogeneous multi-robot systems (HMRS) have emerged as a powerful ap- proach for tackling complex tasks that single robots cannot manage alone. Current large-language-model-based multi-agent systems (LLM-based MAS) have shown success in areas like software development and operating systems, but ap…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

HiAgent: Hierarchical Working Memory Management for Solving Long-Horizon Agent Tasks with Large Language Model

ACL 2025long

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents exhibit significant potential across various domains, operating as interactive systems that process environmental observations to generate executable actions for target tasks. The effectiveness of these agents is significantly influenced by their memory mechan…

2025

OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems show promise for automating real-world tasks but struggle to transfer across domains due to their domain-specific nature. Current approaches face two critical shortcomings: they require complete architectural redesign and full retraining of all co…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

OWMM-Agent: Open World Mobile Manipulation With Multi-modal Agentic Data Synthesis

NeurIPS 2025poster

The rapid progress of navigation, manipulation, and vision models has made mobile manipulators capable in many specialized tasks. However, the open-world mobile manipulation (OWMM) task remains a challenge due to the need for generalization to open-ended instructions and environments, as well as th…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Text2World: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Symbolic World Model Generation

ACL 2025finding

Recently, there has been growing interest in leveraging large language models (LLMs) to generate symbolic world models from textual descriptions. Although LLMs have been extensively explored in the context of world modeling, prior studies encountered several challenges, including evaluation randomne…

2025

X-WebAgentBench: A Multilingual Interactive Web Benchmark for Evaluating Global Agentic System

ACL 2025finding

Recently, large language model (LLM)-based agents have achieved significant success in interactive environments, attracting significant academic and industrial attention. Despite these advancements, current research predominantly focuses on English scenarios. In reality, there are over 7,000 languag…

2024

KET-QA: A Dataset for Knowledge Enhanced Table Question Answering

COLING 2024main

Due to the concise and structured nature of tables, the knowledge contained therein may be incomplete or missing, posing a significant challenge for table question answering (TableQA) systems. However, most existing datasets either overlook the challenge of missing knowledge in TableQA or only utili…

2024

Needle In A Multimodal Haystack

NeurIPS 2024poster

With the rapid advancement of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their evaluation has become increasingly comprehensive. However, understanding long multimodal content, as a foundational ability for real-world applications, remains underexplored. In this work, we present Needle In A Multimoda…

2024

RoboCodeX: Multimodal Code Generation for Robotic Behavior Synthesis

ICML 2024poster

Robotic behavior synthesis, the problem of understanding multimodal inputs and generating precise physical control for robots, is an important part of Embodied AI. Despite successes in applying multimodal large language models for high-level understanding, it remains challenging to translate these c…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2024

Tree-Planner: Efficient Close-loop Task Planning with Large Language Models

ICLR 2024poster

This paper studies close-loop task planning, which refers to the process of generating a sequence of skills (a plan) to accomplish a specific goal while adapting the plan based on real-time observations. Recently, prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate actions iteratively has become a pr…

Cited by 55SourcePDFScholar
2023

EmbodiedGPT: Vision-Language Pre-Training via Embodied Chain of Thought

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Embodied AI is a crucial frontier in robotics, capable of planning and executing action sequences for robots to accomplish long-horizon tasks in physical environments. In this work, we introduce EmbodiedGPT, an end-to-end multi-modal foundation model for embodied AI, empowering embodied agents with…

Cited by 246SourcePDFScholar
2022

TaCube: Pre-computing Data Cubes for Answering Numerical-Reasoning Questions over Tabular Data

EMNLP 2022main

Existing auto-regressive pre-trained language models (PLMs) like T5 and BART, have been well applied to table question answering by UNIFIEDSKG and TAPEX, respectively, and demonstrated state-of-the-art results on multiple benchmarks. However, auto-regressive PLMs are challenged by recent emerging nu…