Publications
16 publications
2026
FurnitureVLA: Learning Long-Horizon Bimanual Furniture Assembly with Vision-Language-Action Model
Chenyang Ma, Yue Yang, Radu Corcodel, Siddarth Jain, Andrew Wu, Chiori Hori, Diego Romeres
arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.01212 · 2026
WatchAct: A Benchmark for Behavior-Grounded Robot Manipulation
Baiqi Li, Ce Zhang, Yu Fang, Yue Yang, Shangzhe Li, Mingyu Ding, Gedas Bertasius
arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.26443 · 2026
LiLo-VLA: Compositional Long-Horizon Manipulation via Linked Object-Centric Policies
Yue Yang, Shuo Cheng, Yu Fang, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Mingyu Ding, Gedas Bertasius, Daniel Szafir
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.21531 · 2026
When Vision Overrides Language: Evaluating and Mitigating Counterfactual Failures in VLAs
Yu Fang, Yuchun Feng, Dong Jing, Jiaqi Liu, Yue Yang, Zhenyu Wei, Daniel Szafir, Mingyu Ding
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.17659 · 2026
2025
Competency-Aware Collaborative Robotic Surface Exploration: A Study at the Mars Desert Research Station
Nicholas Conlon, Pawel Sawicki, Yue Yang, Nisar R Ahmed, Daniel Szafir
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics · 2025
Rebot: Scaling robot learning with real-to-sim-to-real robotic video synthesis
Yu Fang, Yue Yang, Xinghao Zhu, Kaiyuan Zheng, Gedas Bertasius, Daniel Szafir, Mingyu Ding
Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2025
BOSS: Benchmark for Observation Space Shift in Long-Horizon Task
Yue Yang, Linfeng Zhao, Mingyu Ding, Gedas Bertasius, Daniel Szafir
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) · 2025
Supporting Long-Horizon Tasks in Human-Robot Collaboration by Aligning Intentions via Augmented Reality
Chenyang Ma, Yue Yang, Bryce Ikeda, Daniel Szafir
2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · 2025
2024
ARCADE: Scalable Demonstration Collection and Generation via Augmented Reality for Imitation Learning
Yue Yang, Bryce Ikeda, Gedas Bertasius, Daniel Szafir
Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2024
Enhancing Safety in Learning from Demonstration Algorithms via Control Barrier Function Shielding
Yue Yang, Letian Chen, Zulfiqar Zaidi, Sanne van Waveren, Arjun Krishna, Matthew Gombolay
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · 2024
Augmented Reality Demonstrations for Scalable Robot Imitation Learning
Yue Yang, Bryce Ikeda, Gedas Bertasius, Daniel Szafir
7th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI) · 2024
Annotated Hands for Generative Models
Yue Yang, Atith N Gandhi, Greg Turk
arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.15075 · 2024
2022
Safe Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Control Barrier Function
Yue Yang, Letian Chen, Matthew Gombolay
Proceedings of CoRL Learning for Agile Robotics workshop · 2022
2020
Discriminative Cross-Modal Data Augmentation for Medical Imaging Applications
Yue Yang, Pengtao Xie
arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03468 · 2020
Transfer learning or self-supervised learning? A tale of two pretraining paradigms
Xingyi Yang, Xuehai He, Yuxiao Liang, Yue Yang, Shanghang Zhang, Pengtao Xie
arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.04234 · 2020
MedDialog: Large-scale medical dialogue dataset
Guangtao Zeng, Wenmian Yang, Zeqian Ju, Yue Yang, Sicheng Wang, Ruisi Zhang, Meng Zhou, Jiaqi Zeng, Xiangyu Dong, Ruoyu Zhang, others
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2020