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Zhan Ling

14 accepted papers

2026

Generalizable End-to-End Tool-Use RL with Synthetic CodeGym

ICLR 2026poster

Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs), hereafter LLM agents, leverage external tools to solve diverse tasks and interface with the real world. However, current training practices largely rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) over static trajectories or reinforcement learning (RL) on narrow task…

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2026

ORIC: Benchmarking Object Recognition under Contextual Incongruity in Large Vision-Language Models

CVPR 2026

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel at captioning, visual question answering, and robotics by combining vision and language, yet they often miss obvious objects or hallucinate nonexistent ones in atypical scenes. We examine these failures through the lens of uncertainty, focusing on contextua

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2025

MIR-Bench: Can Your LLM Recognize Complicated Patterns via Many-Shot In-Context Reasoning?

NeurIPS 2025poster

The ability to recognize patterns from examples and apply them to new ones is a primal ability for general intelligence, and is widely studied by psychology and AI researchers. Many benchmarks have been proposed to measure such ability for Large Language Models (LLMs); however, they focus on few-sho…

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2024

ActPlan-1K: Benchmarking the Procedural Planning Ability of Visual Language Models in Household Activities

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models(LLMs) have been adopted to process textual task description and accomplish procedural planning in embodied AI tasks because of their powerful reasoning ability. However, there is still lack of study on how vision language models(VLMs) behave when multi-modal task inputs are con…

2023

Deductive Verification of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

NeurIPS 2023poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly benefit from Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting in performing various reasoning tasks. While CoT allows models to produce more comprehensive reasoning processes, its emphasis on intermediate reasoning steps can inadvertently introduce hallucinations and accum…

2023

Distilling Large Vision-Language Model with Out-of-Distribution Generalizability

ICCV 2023poster

Large vision-language models have achieved outstanding performance, but their size and computational requirements make their deployment on resource-constrained devices and time-sensitive tasks impractical. Model distillation, the process of creating smaller, faster models that maintain the performan…

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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…

2023

PartSLIP: Low-Shot Part Segmentation for 3D Point Clouds via Pretrained Image-Language Models

CVPR 2023poster

Generalizable 3D part segmentation is important but challenging in vision and robotics. Training deep models via conventional supervised methods requires large-scale 3D datasets with fine-grained part annotations, which are costly to collect. This paper explores an alternative way for low-shot part…

2023

Reparameterized Policy Learning for Multimodal Trajectory Optimization

ICML 2023oral

We investigate the challenge of parametrizing policies for reinforcement learning (RL) in high-dimensional continuous action spaces. Our objective is to develop a multimodal policy that overcomes limitations inherent in the commonly-used Gaussian parameterization. To achieve this, we propose a princ…

2022

Frame Mining: a Free Lunch for Learning Robotic Manipulation from 3D Point Clouds

CoRL 2022poster

We study how choices of input point cloud coordinate frames impact learning of manipulation skills from 3D point clouds. There exist a variety of coordinate frame choices to normalize captured robot-object-interaction point clouds. We find that different frames have a profound effect on agent learni…

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2022

Improving Policy Optimization with Generalist-Specialist Learning

ICML 2022spotlight

Generalization in deep reinforcement learning over unseen environment variations usually requires policy learning over a large set of diverse training variations. We empirically observe that an agent trained on many variations (a generalist) tends to learn faster at the beginning, yet its performanc…

2021

ManiSkill: Generalizable Manipulation Skill Benchmark with Large-Scale Demonstrations

NeurIPS 2021poster

Object manipulation from 3D visual inputs poses many challenges on building generalizable perception and policy models. However, 3D assets in existing benchmarks mostly lack the diversity of 3D shapes that align with real-world intra-class complexity in topology and geometry. Here we propose SAPIEN…

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