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Zichen Jeff Cui

6 accepted papers

2026

Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility Models

RSS 2026poster

The prevalent paradigm in robot learning attempts to generalize across environments, embodiments, and tasks with language prompts at runtime. A fundamental tension limits this approach: language is often too abstract to guide the concrete physical understanding required for robust manipulation. In t…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

DynaMo: In-Domain Dynamics Pretraining for Visuo-Motor Control

NeurIPS 2024poster

Imitation learning has proven to be a powerful tool for training complex visuo-motor policies. However, current methods often require hundreds to thousands of expert demonstrations to handle high-dimensional visual observations. A key reason for this poor data efficiency is that visual representatio…

2024

Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models : Open X-Embodiment Collaboration

ICRA 2024

Large, high-capacity models trained on diverse datasets have shown remarkable successes on efficiently tackling downstream applications. In domains from NLP to Computer Vision, this has led to a consolidation of pretrained models, with general pretrained backbones serving as a starting point for man

Cited by 910SourcecodeScholar
2024

Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models : Open X-Embodiment Collaboration0

ICRA 2024poster

Large, high-capacity models trained on diverse datasets have shown remarkable successes on efficiently tackling downstream applications. In domains from NLP to Computer Vision, this has led to a consolidation of pretrained models, with general pretrained backbones serving as a starting point for man…

Cited by 259SourcecodeScholar
2023

From Play to Policy: Conditional Behavior Generation from Uncurated Robot Data

ICLR 2023top-5%

While large-scale sequence modelling from offline data has led to impressive performance gains in natural language generation and image generation, directly translating such ideas to robotics has been challenging. One critical reason for this is that uncurated robot demonstration data, i.e. play dat…

2022

Behavior Transformers: Cloning $k$ modes with one stone

NeurIPS 2022accept

While behavior learning has made impressive progress in recent times, it lags behind computer vision and natural language processing due to its inability to leverage large, human-generated datasets. Human behavior has a wide variance, multiple modes, and human demonstrations naturally do not come wi…