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Rushuai Yang

6 accepted papers

2026

From Human Videos to Robot Manipulation: A Survey on Action-Relevant Representation Transfer for Scalable Vision-Language-Action Learning

IJCAI 2026

Recent progress in generalizable embodied control has been driven by large-scale pretraining of Vision–Language–Action (VLA) models. However, most existing approaches rely on large collections of robot demonstrations, which are costly to obtain and tightly coupled to specific embodiments. Human vide

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2026

Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes

ICLR 2026poster

Vision-language models (VLMs) are essential to Embodied AI, enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act in complex environments. They also serve as the foundation for the recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Yet, most evaluations of VLMs focus on single-view settings, leaving their ability t…

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2026

villa-X: Enhancing Latent Action Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models

ICLR 2026poster

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a popular paradigm for learning robot manipulation policies that can follow language instructions and generalize to novel scenarios. Recent works have begun to explore the incorporation of latent actions, abstract representations of motion between…

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2025

Supervised Optimism Correction: Be Confident When LLMs Are Sure

ACL 2025finding

In this work, we establish a novel theoretical connection between supervised fine-tuning and offline reinforcement learning under the token-level Markov decision process, revealing that large language models indeed learn an implicit Q-function for inference.Through this theoretical lens, we demonstr…

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2024

Constrained Ensemble Exploration for Unsupervised Skill Discovery

ICML 2024poster

Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a promising paradigm for learning useful behaviors via reward-free per-training. Existing methods for unsupervised RL mainly conduct empowerment-driven skill discovery or entropy-based exploration. However, empowerment often leads to static skills, a…

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2023

Behavior Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Skill Discovery

ICML 2023poster

In reinforcement learning, unsupervised skill discovery aims to learn diverse skills without extrinsic rewards. Previous methods discover skills by maximizing the mutual information (MI) between states and skills. However, such an MI objective tends to learn simple and static skills and may hinder e…