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Yupeng Zheng

25 accepted papers

2026

Data Scaling Laws for Imitation Learning-Based End-To-End Autonomous Driving

ICRA 2026poster

The end-to-end autonomous driving paradigm has recently attracted lots of attention due to its scalability. However, existing methods are constrained by the limited scale of real-world data, which hinders a comprehensive exploration of the scaling laws associated with end-to-end autonomous driving. …

2026

Learning High-Frequency Continuous Action Chunks in Latent Space

ICML 2026poster

Modern robotic policies increasingly rely on action chunking to execute complex tasks in the physical world. While action chunking improves temporal consistency at moderate action frequencies, it becomes insufficient when the action frequency is further increased (e.g., to 60~Hz). At such high frequ…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Mimir: Hierarchical Goal-Driven Diffusion With Uncertainty Propagation for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

RA-L 2026

End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a pivotal direction in the field of autonomous systems. Recent works have demonstrated impressive performance by incorporating high-level guidance signals to steer low-level trajectory planners. However, their potential is often constrained by inaccurate

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar
2026

Mimir: Hierarchical Goal-Driven Diffusion with Uncertainty Propagation for End-To-End Autonomous Driving

ICRA 2026poster

End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a pivotal direction in the field of autonomous systems. Recent works have demonstrated impressive performance by incorpo-rating high-level guidance signals to steer low-level trajectory planners. However, their potential is often constrained by inaccurate…

2026

OccTENS: 3D Occupancy World Model Via Temporal Next-Scale Prediction

ICRA 2026poster

In this paper, we propose OccTENS, a generative occupancy world model that enables controllable, high-fidelity long-term occupancy generation while maintaining computational efficiency. Different from visual generation, the occupancy world model must capture the fine-grained 3D geometry and dynamic …

2026

OccTENS: 3D Occupancy World Model via Temporal Next-Scale Prediction

RA-L 2026

In this paper, we propose OccTENS, a generative occupancy world model that enables controllable, high-fidelity long-term occupancy generation while maintaining computational efficiency. Different from visual generation, the occupancy world model must capture the fine-grained 3D geometry and dynamic

Cited by 7SourceScholar
2026

Rhythm: Learning Interactive Whole-Body Control for Dual Humanoids

RSS 2026poster

Realizing interactive whole-body control for multi-humanoid systems is critical for unlocking complex collaborative capabilities in shared environments. Although recent advancements have significantly enhanced the agility of individual robots, bridging the gap to physically coupled multi-humanoid in…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2026

Saliency-Guided Representation with Consistency Policy Learning for Visual Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning

CVPR 2026

Zero-shot unsupervised reinforcement learning (URL) offers a promising direction for building generalist agents capable of generalizing to unseen tasks without additional supervision. Among existing approaches, successor representations (SR) have emerged as a prominent paradigm due to their effectiv

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

TakeAD: Preference-Based Post-Optimization for End-to-End Autonomous Driving With Expert Takeover Data

RA-L 2026

Existing end-to-end autonomous driving methods typically rely on imitation learning (IL) but face a key challenge: the misalignment between open-loop training and closed-loop deployment. This misalignment often triggers driver-initiated takeovers and system disengagements during closed-loop executio

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2026

Towards Long-Lived Robots: Continual Learning VLA Models via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

RSS 2026poster

Pretrained on large-scale and diverse datasets, VLA models demonstrate strong generalization and adaptability as general-purpose robotic policies. However, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), which serves as the primary mechanism for adapting VLAs to downstream domains, requires substantial amounts of tas…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation Via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis

ICRA 2026poster

Recently, end-to-end robotic manipulation models have gained significant attention for their generalizability and scalability. However, they often suffer from limited robustness to camera viewpoint changes when training with a fixed camera. In this paper, we propose VistaBot, a novel framework that …

2026

WorldRFT: Latent World Model Planning with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Autonomous Driving

AAAI 2026technical

Latent World Models enhance scene representation through temporal self-supervised learning, presenting a perception annotation-free paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving. However, the reconstruction-oriented representation learning tangles perception with planning tasks, leading to suboptimal o

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Enhancing Indoor Occupancy Prediction via Sparse Query-Based Multi-Level Consistent Knowledge Distillation

RA-L 2025

Occupancy prediction provides critical geometric and semantic understanding for robotics but faces efficiency-accuracy trade-offs. Current dense methods suffer computational waste on empty voxels, while sparse query-based approaches lack robustness in diverse and complex indoor scenes. In this paper

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2025

ReasonPlan: Unified Scene Prediction and Decision Reasoning for Closed-loop Autonomous Driving

CoRL 2025poster

Due to the powerful vision-language reasoning and generalization abilities, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have garnered significant attention in the field of end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving. However, their application to closed-loop systems remains underexplored, and current MLLM-base…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Semi-Supervised Vision-Centric 3D Occupancy World Model for Autonomous Driving

ICLR 2025poster

Understanding world dynamics is crucial for planning in autonomous driving. Recent methods attempt to achieve this by learning a 3D occupancy world model that forecasts future surrounding scenes based on current observation. However, 3D occupancy labels are still required to produce promising result…

2025

UncAD: Towards Safe End-to-end Autonomous Driving via Online Map Uncertainty

ICRA 2025

End-to-end autonomous driving aims to produce planning trajectories from raw sensors directly. Currently, most approaches integrate perception, prediction, and planning modules into a fully differentiable network, promising great scalability. However, these methods typically rely on deterministic mo

Cited by 14SourcecodeScholar
2025

World4Drive: End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Intention-aware Physical Latent World Model

ICCV 2025poster

End-to-end autonomous driving directly generates planning trajectories from raw sensor data, yet it typically relies on costly perception supervision to extract scene information. A critical research challenge arises: constructing an informative driving world model to enable perception annotation-fr…

2024

GaussianGrasper: 3D Language Gaussian Splatting for Open-Vocabulary Robotic Grasping

RA-L 2024

Constructing a 3D scene capable of accommodating open-ended language queries, is a pivotal pursuit in the domain of robotics, which facilitates robots in executing object manipulations based on human language directives. To achieve this, some research efforts have been dedicated to the development o

Cited by 102SourcecodeScholar
2024

MonoOcc: Digging into Monocular Semantic Occupancy Prediction

ICRA 2024poster

Monocular Semantic Occupancy Prediction aims to infer the complete 3D geometry and semantic information of scenes from only 2D images. It has garnered significant attention, particularly due to its potential to enhance the 3D perception of autonomous vehicles. However, existing methods rely on a com…

Cited by 31SourcecodeScholar
2024

Tri-Perspective View Decomposition for Geometry-Aware Depth Completion

CVPR 2024poster

Depth completion is a vital task for autonomous driving as it involves reconstructing the precise 3D geometry of a scene from sparse and noisy depth measurements. However most existing methods either rely only on 2D depth representations or directly incorporate raw 3D point clouds for compensation w…

Cited by 30SourcePDFScholar
2023

3D Implicit Transporter for Temporally Consistent Keypoint Discovery

ICCV 2023oral

Keypoint-based representation has proven advantageous in various visual and robotic tasks. However, the existing 2D and 3D methods for detecting keypoints mainly rely on geometric consistency to achieve spatial alignment, neglecting temporal consistency. To address this issue, the Transporter method…

Cited by 16PDFcodeScholar
2023

ADAPT: Action-aware Driving Caption Transformer

ICRA 2023poster

End-to-end autonomous driving has great potential in the transportation industry. However, the lack of transparency and interpretability of the automatic decision-making process hinders its industrial adoption in practice. There have been some early attempts to use attention maps or cost volume for…

Cited by 90SourcecodeScholar
2023

STEPS: Joint Self-supervised Nighttime Image Enhancement and Depth Estimation

ICRA 2023poster

Self-supervised depth estimation draws a lot of attention recently as it can promote the 3D sensing capa-bilities of self-driving vehicles. However, it intrinsically relies upon the photometric consistency assumption, which hardly holds during nighttime. Although various supervised night-time image…

Cited by 49SourcecodeScholar