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Yunchao Yao

5 accepted papers

2026

One Hand to Rule Them All: Canonical Representations for Unified Dexterous Manipulation

RSS 2026poster

Dexterous manipulation policies today largely assume fixed hand designs, severely restricting their generalization to new embodiments with varied kinematic and structural layouts. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a parameterized canonical representation that unifies a broad spectrum of dext…

2025

When Should We Prefer State-to-Visual DAgger over Visual Reinforcement Learning?

AAAI 2025technical

Learning policies from high-dimensional visual inputs, such as pixels and point clouds, is crucial in various applications. Visual reinforcement learning is a promising approach that directly trains policies from visual observations, although it faces challenges in sample efficiency and computationa…

2023

ManiSkill2: A Unified Benchmark for Generalizable Manipulation Skills

ICLR 2023poster

Generalizable manipulation skills, which can be composed to tackle long-horizon and complex daily chores, are one of the cornerstones of Embodied AI. However, existing benchmarks, mostly composed of a suite of simulatable environments, are insufficient to push cutting-edge research works because the…