publications

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2026

  1. Preprint
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    From Passive Perception to Active Interaction: A Survey of Affordance Learning for Embodied AI
    Gen Li, Hanqing Wang, Jingliang Li, Yifan Han, Jindou Jia, Tao Lin, Yuanzhe Liu, Yutong Wang, Bo Zhao, Fangqiang Ding, Anh Nguyen, Laura Sevilla-Lara, Huazhe Xu, Gregory S. Chirikjian, Marc Pollefeys, Oier Mees, Hui Xiong, and Jianfei Yang
    Preprints.org, 2026
  2. Preprint
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    LIBERO-MAX: Do Robot Policies Adapt When the World Changes?
    Yunbei Zhang, Zijian Jin, Yuanzhe Liu, Janet Wang, Xilun Zhang, Yuyou Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Daoan Zhang, Shuaicheng Niu, Gen Li, Jianfei Yang, Jihun Hamm, Ismini Lourentzou, Weirui Ye, Bo Liu, Peter Stone, and Marco Pavone
    arXiv, 2026
  3. Preprint
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    mmHRI: Towards Privacy-Preserving Human-Robot Interaction with Millimeter-Wave Radar
    Junqiao Fan, Yuxuan Hu, Bofan Lyu, Yanshuo Lu, Pengfei Liu, Jiarui Zhang, Fangqiang Ding, Lihua Xie, Gen Li†, and Jianfei Yang†
    arXiv, 2026
  4. Preprint
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    HarnessPAI: An Evolving Harness for Physical AI
    Xin Wang, Wenhao Wu, Menghao Zhang, Zhi Wang, Kun Shao, Jian Luan, Yang Li, Qing Li, Shangding Gu, Huichi Zhou, Shuqing Shi, Fei Ni, Shuo Lu, Weicheng Meng, Kang Li, Jin Wu, Kang Zhao, Shangmin Guo, Gen Li, Yongqiang Tang, Zhizhong Zhang, Yuan Xie, and Heng Qu
    arXiv, 2026
  5. npj Robotics
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    Physics Filtering Favors the Generalization of Robot Learning
    Jindou Jia, Shixuan Han, Meng Wang, Gen Li, Zihan Yang, Sicheng Zhou, Kexin Guo, Jianfei Yang, Xiang Yu, Wei Wang, and Lei Guo
    npj Robotics, 2026
  6. CoRL’26
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    Unified Condition-Action Modeling for Accurate One-Step Action Generation
    Xinyu Zhou, Zikun Cai, Kuangji Zuo, Gen Li, Boyu Ma, Yanshuo Lu, Yutong Song, Mingqi Yuan, Jiayu Chen, and Jianfei Yang
    In Conference on Robot Learning, 2026
  7. Preprint
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    ω-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
    Zhe Li, Zhenzhe Zhang, Yangyang Wei, Wenjie Zhang, Xichen Yuan, Peiyuan Zhi, Gen Li, Xinying Guo, Fengjie Gao, Jianfei Yang, and Shanghang Zhang
    arXiv, 2026
  8. Preprint
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    LA4VLA: Learning to Act without Seeing via Language-Action Pretraining
    Tao Lin, Yuxin Du, Yiran Mao, Zewei Ye, Yilei Zhong, Bing Cheng, Yiming Wang, Jiting Liu, Yang Tian, Junchi Yan, Feiran Wu, Zenan Meng, Hu Wei, Yuqian Fu†, Gen Li†, and Bo Zhao†
    arXiv, 2026
  9. CoRL’26
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    ADAPT: Analytical Disturbance-Aware Policy Training for Humanoid Locomotion
    Bofan Lyu, Jindou Jia, Kuangji Zuo, Yanshuo Lu, Shijia Han, Gen Li, Boyu Ma, Jingliang Li, Geng Li, and Jianfei Yang†
    Conference on Robot Learning, 2026
  10. Preprint
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    GIVE: Grounding Human Gestures in Vision-Language-Action Models
    Pengfei Liu*, Gen Li*, Junqiao Fan, Boyu Ma, Jindou Jia, Yang Xiao, and Jianfei Yang
    arXiv, 2026
  11. Preprint
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    OccamToken: Efficient VLM Inference with Training-Free and Budget-Adaptive Token Pruning
    Geng Li, Guohao Chen, Ting Chen, Shilin Shan, Kuangji Zuo, Bofan Lyu, Tuo An, Gen Li†, and Jianfei Yang†
    arXiv, 2026
  12. Preprint
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    MARS Policy: Multimodality Only When It Matters
    Jindou Jia, Tuo An, Yuxuan Hu, Gen Li, Jingliang Li, Bohan Hou, Xiangyu Chen, Jiaqi Bai, Bofan Lyu, and Jianfei Yang
    arXiv, 2026
  13. Preprint
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    Gaze2Act: Gaze-Conditioned Vision-Language-Action Policies for Interactive Robot Manipulation
    Kuangji Zuo*, Gen Li*, Bofan Lyu, Yanshuo Lu, Boyu Ma, Shijia Han, Xinyu Zhou, Xichen Yuan, Chuhao Zhou, Jiaqi Bai, Geng Li, and Jianfei Yang
    arXiv, 2026
  14. NeurIPS’26
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    Feedback World Model Enables Precise Guidance of Diffusion Policy
    Tuo An, Jindou Jia, Gen Li, Jingliang Li, Chuhao Zhou, Pengfei Liu, Bofan Lyu, Jiaqi Bai, Xinying Guo, Geng Li, and Jianfei Yang
    In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026
  15. NeurIPS’26
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    FLASH: Efficient Visuomotor Policy via Sparse Sampling
    Jiaqi Bai, Jindou Jia, Yuxuan Hu, Gen Li, Xiangyu Chen, Tuo An, Kuangji Zuo, and Jianfei Yang
    In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026
  16. NeurIPS’26
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    Evo-Depth: A Lightweight Depth-Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Model
    Tao Lin, Yuxin Du, Jiting Liu, Nuobei Zhu, Yunhe Li, Yuqian Fu, Yinxinyu Chen, Hongyi Cai, Zewei Ye, Bing Cheng, Kai Ye, Yiran Mao, Yilei Zhong, MingKang Dong, Junchi Yan, Gen Li†, and Bo Zhao†
    In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026
  17. IJRR
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    World Model for Robot Learning: A Comprehensive Survey
    Bohan Hou*, Gen Li*, Jindou Jia*, Tuo An*, Xinying Guo*, Sicong Leng, Haoran Geng, Yanjie Ze, Tatsuya Harada, Philip Torr, Oier Mees, Marc Pollefeys, Zhuang Liu, Jiajun Wu, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik, Yilun Du, and Jianfei Yang
    International Journal of Robotics Research, 2026
  18. Preprint
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    CompassAD: Intent-Driven 3D Affordance Grounding in Functionally Competing Objects
    Jingliang Li, Jindou Jia, Tuo An, Chuhao Zhou, Xiangyu Chen, Shilin Shan, Boyu Ma, Bofan Lyu, Gen Li†, and Jianfei Yang†
    arXiv, 2026
  19. Preprint
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    RoboForge: Physically Optimized Text-Guided Whole-Body Locomotion for Humanoids
    Xichen Yuan, Zhe Li, Bofan Lyu, Kuangji Zuo, Yanshuo Lu, Gen Li, and Jianfei Yang
    arXiv, 2026
  20. RSS’26
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    Action-to-Action Flow Matching
    Jindou Jia*, Gen Li*, Xiangyu Chen, Tuo An, Yuxuan Hu, Jingliang Li, Xinying Guo, and Jianfei Yang
    In Robotics: Science and Systems, 2026
  21. CVPR’26
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    Evo-1: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model with Preserved Semantic Alignment
    Tao Lin, Yilei Zhong, Yuxin Du, Jingjing Zhang, Jiting Liu, Yinxinyu Chen, Encheng Gu, Ziyan Liu, Hongyi Cai, Yanwen Zou, Lixing Zou, Zhaoye Zhou, Gen Li†, and Bo Zhao†
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026
  22. CVPR’26
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    PALM: Progress-Aware Policy Learning via Affordance Reasoning for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
    Yuanzhe Liu, Jingyuan Zhu, Yuchen Mo, Gen Li, Xu Cao, Jin Jin, Yifan Shen, Zhengyuan Li, Tianjiao Yu, Wenzhen Yuan, Fangqiang Ding, and Ismini Lourentzou
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026
  23. Preprint
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    Evo-0: Vision-Language-Action Model with Implicit Spatial Understanding
    Tao Lin*, Gen Li*, Yilei Zhong, Yanwen Zou, Yuxin Du, Jiting Liu, Encheng Gu, and Bo Zhao
    arXiv, 2026
  24. AAAI’26
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    Mask2IV: Interaction-Centric Video Generation via Mask Trajectories
    Gen Li, Bo Zhao, Jianfei Yang, and Laura Sevilla-Lara
    In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

2025

  1. ACM MM’25
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    Dual Enhancement on 3D Vision-Language Perception for Monocular 3D Visual Grounding
    Yuzhen Li, Min Liu, Yuan Bian, Xueping Wang, Zhaoyang Li, Gen Li, and Yaonan Wang
    In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2025
  2. ICCV’25
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    Learning Precise Affordances from Egocentric Videos for Robotic Manipulation
    Gen Li, Nikolaos Tsagkas, Jifei Song, Ruaridh Mon-Williams, Sethu Vijayakumar, Kun Shao, and Laura Sevilla-Lara
    In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025
  3. ICCV’25
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    Principles of Visual Tokens for Efficient Video Understanding
    Xinyue Hao, Gen Li, Shreyank N Gowda, Robert B Fisher, Jonathan Huang, Anurag Arnab, and Laura Sevilla-Lara
    In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025
  4. IROS’25
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    Resource-Efficient Affordance Grounding with Complementary Depth and Semantic Prompts
    Yizhou Huang, Fan Yang, Guoliang Zhu, Gen Li, Hao Shi, Yukun Zuo, Wenrui Chen, Zhiyong Li, and Kailun Yang
    In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025
  5. NMI
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    Embodied Large Language Models Enable Robots to Complete Complex Tasks in Unpredictable Environments
    Ruaridh Mon-Williams†, Gen Li†, Ran Long, Wenqian Du, and Chris Lucas
    Nature Machine Intelligence, 2025

2024

  1. ECCVW’24
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    Watt for what: Rethinking deep learning’s energy-performance relationship
    Shreyank N Gowda, Xinyue Hao, Gen Li, Shashank Narayana Gowda, Xiaobo Jin, and Laura Sevilla-Lara
    In European Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, 2024
  2. CVPR’24
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    One-Shot Open Affordance Learning with Foundation Models
    Gen Li, Deqing Sun, Laura Sevilla-Lara, and Varun Jampani
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2024

2023

  1. IJCNN’23
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    Referenceless User Controllable Semantic Image Synthesis
    Jonghyun Kim, Gen Li, and Joongkyu Kim
    In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2023
  2. CVPR’23
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    LOCATE: Localize and Transfer Object Parts for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
    Gen Li, Varun Jampani, Deqing Sun, and Laura Sevilla-Lara
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023

2021

  1. CVPR’21
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    Adaptive Prototype Learning and Allocation for Few-Shot Segmentation
    Gen Li, Varun Jampani, Laura Sevilla-Lara, Deqing Sun, Jonghyun Kim, and Joongkyu Kim
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2021
  2. BMVC’21
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    SuperStyleNet: Deep Image Synthesis with Superpixel Based Style Encoder
    Jonghyun Kim, Gen Li, Cheolkon Jung, and Joongkyu Kim
    In British Machine Vision Conference, 2021
  3. PR
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    Weakly-supervised temporal attention 3D network for human action recognition
    Jonghyun Kim, Gen Li, Inyong Yun, Cheolkon Jung, and Joongkyu Kim
    Pattern Recognition, 2021
  4. Neurocom
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    Edge and identity preserving network for face super-resolution
    Jonghyun Kim, Gen Li, Inyong Yun, Cheolkon Jung, and Joongkyu Kim
    Neurocomputing, 2021

2020

  1. Access
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    Depth-Wise Asymmetric Bottleneck With Point-Wise Aggregation Decoder for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation in Urban Scenes
    Gen Li, Shenlu Jiang, Inyong Yun, Jonghyun Kim, and Joongkyu Kim
    IEEE Access, 2020

2019

  1. BMVC’19
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    DABNet: Depth-wise asymmetric bottleneck for real-time semantic segmentation
    Gen Li and Joongkyu Kim
    In British Machine Vision Conference, 2019