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Sophia Shao

6 accepted papers

2026

3DGS$^2$-TR: A Scalable Second-Order Trust-Region Method for 3D Gaussian Splatting

ICML 2026poster

We propose 3DGS$^2$-TR, a second-order optimizer for accelerating the scene training problem in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Unlike existing second-order approaches that rely on explicit or dense curvature representations, such as 3DGS-LM (Höllein et al., 2025) or 3DGS2 (Lan et al., 2025), our meth…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Demonstrating Berkeley Humanoid Lite: An Open-source, Accessible, and Customizable 3D-printed Humanoid Robot

RSS 2025poster

Despite significant interest and advancements in humanoid robotics, most existing commercially available hardware remains high-cost, closed-source, and non-transparent within the robotics community. This lack of accessibility and customization hinders the growth of the field and the broader developm…

Cited by 0PDFScholar
2025

LangWBC: Language-directed Humanoid Whole-Body Control via End-to-end Learning

RSS 2025poster

General-purpose humanoid robots are expected to interact intuitively with humans, enabling seamless integration into daily life. Natural language provides the most accessible medium for this purpose. However, translating languages into humanoid whole-body motions remains a significant challenge, pri…

Cited by 0PDFScholar
2025

Multipole Attention for Efficient Long Context Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown promising accuracy improvements on complex problem-solving tasks. While these models have attained high accuracy by leveraging additional computation at test time, they need to generate long chain-of-thought reasoning in order to think before answering, which…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

DiffuseLoco: Real-Time Legged Locomotion Control with Diffusion from Offline Datasets

CoRL 2024poster

Offline learning at scale has led to breakthroughs in computer vision, natural language processing, and robotic manipulation domains. However, scaling up learning for legged robot locomotion, especially with multiple skills in a single policy, presents significant challenges for prior online reinfor…

Cited by 29SourceScholar
2024

KVQuant: Towards 10 Million Context Length LLM Inference with KV Cache Quantization

NeurIPS 2024poster

LLMs are seeing growing use for applications which require large context windows, and with these large context windows KV cache activations surface as the dominant contributor to memory consumption during inference. Quantization is a promising approach for compressing KV cache activations; however,…