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2026
GIFT: Guided Intermediate Feature Training via Action-Oriented Structural Supervision for Robotic Manipulation
Yupeng Zheng*,
Xiang Li*,
Songen Gu*,
Yuhang Zheng*,
Shuai Tian,
Weize Li,
Linbo Wang,
Chaoyue Li,
Qichao Zhang,
Haoran Li,
Zhongpu Xia,
Ya-Qin Zhang,
Shuicheng Yan,
Dongbin Zhao
Preprint, 2026
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Paper
Latent Action as Intention Enables Efficient Future Imagination for World Action Models
Xiang Li*,
Yupeng Zheng*,
Songen Gu*,
Huailiang Ma*,
Feng Yu,
Yuhang Zheng,
Xian Nie,
Shanshuai Yuan,
Yujie Zang,
Weize Li,
Shuai Tian,
Moyang Liu,
Ya-Qin Zhang,
Wenchao Ding
Preprint, 2026
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VT-WAM: Visual-Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Shuai Tian,
Yupeng Zheng,
Yuhang Zheng,
Songen Gu,
Yujie Zang,
Yuxing Qin,
Weize Li,
Haoran Li,
Wenchao Ding,
Dongbin Zhao
Preprint, 2026
Paper
VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis
Songen Gu*,
Yuhang Zheng*,
Weize Li,
Yupeng Zheng,
Yating Feng,
Xiang Li,
Pengfei Li,
Yilun Chen,
Wenchao Ding
ICRA 2026
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PokéVLA: Empowering Pocket-Sized Vision-Language-Action Model with Comprehensive World Knowledge Guidance
Yupeng Zheng,
Xiang Li,
Songen Gu,
Yuhang Zheng,
Shuai Tian,
Weize Li,
Linbo Wang,
Senyu Fei,
Pengfei Li,
Yinfeng Gao,
Zebin Xing,
Yilun Chen,
Qichao Zhang,
Haoran Li,
Wenchao Ding
Preprint, 2026
Paper
OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Yuhang Zheng,
Songen Gu,
Weize Li,
Yupeng Zheng,
Yujie Zang,
Shuai Tian,
Xiang Li,
Ce Hao,
Chen Gao,
Si Liu,
Haoran Li,
Yilun Chen,
Shuicheng Yan,
Wenchao Ding
Preprint, 2026
· EAI Top10 Dataset Award
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Dataset
World in Your Hands: A Large-Scale and Open-source Ecosystem for Learning Human-centric Manipulation in the Wild
Yupeng Zheng*,
Jichao Peng*,
Weize Li*,
Yuhang Zheng,
Xiang Li,
Yujie Jin, Julong Wei, Guanhua Zhang, Ruiling Zheng, Ming Cao,
Songen Gu, Zhenhong Zou, Kaige Li, Ke Wu, Mingmin Yang, Jiahao Liu,
Pengfei Li, Hengjie Si, Feiyu Zhu, Wang Fu, Likun Wang, Ruiwen Yao,
Jieru Zhao,
Yilun Chen,
Wenchao Ding
CoRL, 2026
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LiteVGGT: Boosting Vanilla VGGT via Geometry-aware Cached Token Merging
Zhijian Shu,
Cheng Lin,
Tao Xie,
Wei Yin,
Ben Li,
Zhiyuan Pu,
Weize Li,
Yao Yao,
Xun Cao,
Xiaoyang Guo,
Xiao-xiao Long
CVPR 2026
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Data Scaling Laws for Imitation Learning-Based End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Yupeng Zheng,
Pengxuan Yang,
Zhongpu Xia,
Qichao Zhang,
Yuhang Zheng,
Ben Lu,
Teng Zhang,
Chao Han,
Weize Li,
Songen Gu,
Xianpeng Lang,
Xiangyuan Lan,
Dongbin Zhao
ICRA, 2026
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2025
UniArt: Unified 3D Representation for Generating 3D Articulated Objects with Open-Set Articulation
Bu Jin,
Weize Li,
Songen Gu,
Yupeng Zheng,
Yuhang Zheng,
Zhengyi Zhou,
Yao Yao
In Submission, 2025
Paper
Taming VR Teleoperation and Learning from Demonstration for Multi-Task Bimanual Table Service Manipulation
Weize Li,
Zhengxiao Han,
Lixin Xu,
Xiangyu Chen,
Harrison Bounds,
Chenrui Zhang,
Yifan Xu
Technical Report, 2025 · IEEE ICRA WBCD 2025 Challenge
· 1st Place (Table Service Track)
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RoboGEM: Learning Language-guided Robotic Manipulation via Generalizable and Efficient Feature Distillation
Chunzheng Wang,
Yuhang Zheng,
Xiangyu Chen,
Weize Li,
Songen Gu,
Yupeng Zheng
ACM MM 2025
· Best Paper Award @ RoboSoft'25
Paper
PosePilot: Steering Camera Pose for Generative World Models with Self-supervised Depth
Bu Jin*,
Weize Li*,
Baihan Yang,
Zhenxin Zhu,
Junpeng Jiang,
Huan-ang Gao,
Haiyang Sun,
Kun Zhan,
Hengtong Hu,
Xueyang Zhang,
Peng Jia,
Hao Zhao
IROS 2025
Paper
Radiance Field-Based 3D Editing: A Survey
Weize Li*,
Tianshu Kuai*,
Huan-ang Gao,
Xiangyue Liu,
Yuhang Zheng,
Yupeng Zheng, et al.
In Submission, 2025
Awesome List
2024
TOD3Cap: Towards 3D Dense Captioning in Outdoor Scenes
Bu Jin,
Yupeng Zheng,
Pengfei Li,
Weize Li,
Yuhang Zheng,
Sujie Hu,
Xinyu Liu,
Jinwei Zhu,
Zhijie Yan,
Haiyang Sun,
Kun Zhan,
Peng Jia,
Xiaoxiao Long,
Yilun Chen,
Hao Zhao
ECCV 2024
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2023
PAD: A Dataset and Benchmark for Pose-agnostic Anomaly Detection
Qiang Zhou*,
Weize Li*,
Lihan Jiang,
Guoliang Wang,
Guyue Zhou,
Shanghang Zhang,
Hao Zhao
NeurIPS 2023
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IRFLMDNN: Hybrid Model for PMU Data Anomaly Detection and Re-filling
Miao Yu,
Chenyu Yang*,
Weize Li*,
Weijie Du,
Jinglin Li
Neural Computing and Applications, 2023
Paper
Experience
TARS Robotics | AWE Research Team
Research Engineer
Mentors: Prof. Wenchao Ding, Prof. Yilun Chen
Mar 2025 – June 2026
Tsinghua University | AIR Innovation Center
Research Assistant
Mentor: Prof. Yilun Chen
Jan 2025 – May 2025
HKUST | LightIllusions
Research Intern
Mentors: Prof. Xiao-xiao Long, Prof. Ping Tan
Apr 2024 – Oct 2024
Tsinghua University | AIR
Research Intern
Mentors: Prof. Hao Zhao, Prof. Shanghang Zhang, Prof. Yilun Chen
Aug 2022 – Dec 2024
Service
Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS'23, CVPR'24, ICRA'24, ICLR'25, IROS'25, CVPR'26
Journal Reviewer: IJCV, R-AL
Organizer: 2nd What Bimanuals Can Do (WBCD) Competition, IEEE ICRA 2026
Misc
Outside of research, I enjoy photography, fitness, and ball sports (football, basketball, tennis, badminton). I am also a registered referee with the Chinese Football Association.