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Yunxin Tai

6 accepted papers

2026

Focus-Then-Contact: Speeding Up Robotic Contact-Rich Task Learning with Affordance-Guided Real-World Residual Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2026poster

Real-World Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown significant potential in robotic manipulation tasks. However, many methods still require substantial human-in-the-loop involvement to complete contact-rich tasks, especially when there are disruptions such as visual backgrounds or positional changes. …

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2026

From Reaction to Anticipation: Proactive Failure Recovery through Agentic Task Graph for Robotic Manipulation

RSS 2026poster

Recent advances in robotic manipulation remain hindered by the inevitability of task failures, particularly in dynamic and unstructured environments. To handle such failure, existing frameworks typically follow a stepwise detect–reason–recover pipeline, which often incurs high latency and limited ro…

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2026

HWC-Loco: A Hierarchical Whole-Body Control Approach to Robust Humanoid Locomotion

ICLR 2026poster

Humanoid robots, capable of assuming human roles in various workplaces, have become essential to the advancement of embodied intelligence. However, as robots with complex physical structures, learning a control model that can operate robustly across diverse environments remains inherently challengin…

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2026

Sim2Real VLA: Zero-Shot Generalization of Synthesized Skills to Realistic Manipulation

ICLR 2026poster

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models represent a critical milestone toward embodied intelligence in robotic manipulation. To support their training, recent research has developed high-performance simulation engines for data synthesis. However, their effectiveness is still significantly limited by the…

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2025

DexScale: Automating Data Scaling for Sim2Real Generalizable Robot Control

ICML 2025poster

A critical prerequisite for achieving generalizable robot control is the availability of a large-scale robot training dataset. Due to the expense of collecting realistic robotic data, recent studies explored simulating and recording robot skills in virtual environments. While simulated data can be g…

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2020

Grasp Proposal Networks: An End-to-End Solution for Visual Learning of Robotic Grasps

NeurIPS 2020poster

Learning robotic grasps from visual observations is a promising yet challenging task. Recent research shows its great potential by preparing and learning from large-scale synthetic datasets. For the popular, 6 degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) grasp setting of parallel-jaw gripper, most of existing methods…