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Yucen Wang

6 accepted papers

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

FOUNDER: Grounding Foundation Models in World Models for Open-Ended Embodied Decision Making

ICML 2025poster

Foundation Models (FMs) and World Models (WMs) offer complementary strengths in task generalization at different levels. In this work, we propose FOUNDER, a framework that integrates the generalizable knowledge embedded in FMs with the dynamic modeling capabilities of WMs to enable open-ended task s…

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2025

Reward Models in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey

IJCAI 2025

In reinforcement learning (RL), agents continually interact with the environment and use the feedback to refine their behavior. To guide policy optimization, reward models are introduced as proxies of the desired objectives, such that when the agent maximizes the accumulated reward, it also fulfills

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2024

AD3: Implicit Action is the Key for World Models to Distinguish the Diverse Visual Distractors

ICML 2024poster

Model-based methods have significantly contributed to distinguishing task-irrelevant distractors for visual control. However, prior research has primarily focused on heterogeneous distractors like noisy background videos, leaving homogeneous distractors that closely resemble controllable agents larg…

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2023

SeMAIL: Eliminating Distractors in Visual Imitation via Separated Models

ICML 2023poster

Model-based imitation learning (MBIL) is a popular reinforcement learning method that improves sample efficiency on high-dimension input sources, such as images and videos. Following the convention of MBIL research, existing algorithms are highly deceptive by task-irrelevant information, especially…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar