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2025

BOSS: Benchmark for Observation Space Shift in Long‑Horizon Task

BOSS: Benchmark for Observation Space Shift in Long‑Horizon Task

Yue Yang, Linfeng Zhao, Mingyu Ding, Gedas Bertasius, Daniel J. Szafir
IEEE RA-L 2025
TL;DR
A benchmark for evaluating observation space shift challenges in long-horizon robotic tasks.
Seeing is Believing: Belief-Space Planning with Foundation Models as Uncertainty Estimators

Seeing is Believing: Belief-Space Planning with Foundation Models as Uncertainty Estimators

Linfeng Zhao, Willie McClinton*, Aidan Curtis*, Nishanth Kumar, Tom Silver, Leslie Kaelbling, Lawson L.S. Wong
arXiv 2025
TL;DR
We integrate perception and task planning under belief-space planning to enable strategic information gathering in open-world environments, where vision-language foundation models are used to estimate the state and its uncertainty.
Hierarchical Equivariant Policy via Frame Transfer

Hierarchical Equivariant Policy via Frame Transfer

Haibo Zhao, Dian Wang, Yizhe Zhu, Xupeng Zhu, Owen Lewis Howell, Linfeng Zhao, Yaoyao Qian, Robin Walters, Robert Platt
ICML 2025
Learning Efficient and Robust Language‑conditioned Manipulation using Textual‑Visual Relevancy and Equivariant Language Mapping

Learning Efficient and Robust Language‑conditioned Manipulation using Textual‑Visual Relevancy and Equivariant Language Mapping

Mingxi Jia*, Haojie Huang*, Zhewen Zhang, Chenghao Wang, Linfeng Zhao, Dian Wang, Jason Xinyu Liu, Robin Walters, Robert Platt, Stefanie Tellex
IEEE RA-L 2025
TL;DR
We develop an approach for efficient open-vocabulary language-conditioned manipulation policy learning.

2024

Clebsch‑Gordan Transformers: Fast and Global Equivariant Attention

Clebsch‑Gordan Transformers: Fast and Global Equivariant Attention

Owen Lewis Howell, Linfeng Zhao, Xupeng Zhu, Yaoyao Qian, Haojie Huang, Lingfeng Sun, Wil Thomason, Robert Platt, Robin Walters
In Submission
Robot Tactile Gesture Recognition Based on Full‑body Modular E‑skin

Robot Tactile Gesture Recognition Based on Full‑body Modular E‑skin

Shuo Jiang, Boce Hu, Linfeng Zhao, Lawson L.S. Wong
In Submission
Practice Makes Perfect: Planning to Learn Skill Parameter Policies

Practice Makes Perfect: Planning to Learn Skill Parameter Policies

Nishanth Kumar*, Tom Silver*, Willie McClinton, Linfeng Zhao, Stephen Proul, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Kaelbling, Jennifer Barry
RSS 2024
TL;DR
We enable a robot to rapidly and autonomously specialize parameterized skills by planning to practice them. The robot decides what skills to practice and how to practice them. The robot is left alone for hours, repeatedly practicing and improving.
ThinkGrasp: A Vision-Language System for Strategic Part Grasping in Clutter

ThinkGrasp: A Vision-Language System for Strategic Part Grasping in Clutter

Yaoyao Qian, Xupeng Zhu, Ondrej Biza, Shuo Jiang, Linfeng Zhao, Haojie Huang, Yu Qi, Robert Platt
CoRL 2024
TL;DR
We have developed ThinkGrasp, a plug-and-play vision-language grasping system for heavy clutter environment grasping strategies.
Equivariant Action Sampling for Reinforcement Learning and Planning

Equivariant Action Sampling for Reinforcement Learning and Planning

Linfeng Zhao, Owen Howell, Xupeng Zhu, Jung Yeon Park, Zhewen Zhang, Robin Walters, Lawson L.S. Wong
WAFR 2024
TL;DR
We study the problem of action sampling and propose a method to incorporate equivariance properties to the action sampling procedure.
Learning to Navigate in Mazes with Novel Layouts Using Abstract Top-down Maps

Learning to Navigate in Mazes with Novel Layouts Using Abstract Top-down Maps

Linfeng Zhao, Lawson L.S. Wong
RLC 2024
TL;DR
This work learns to navigate end-to-end with map input, aiming to generalize to novel map layouts in zero-shot.
ThinkGrasp: A Vision-Language System for Strategic Part Grasping in Clutter

ThinkGrasp: A Vision-Language System for Strategic Part Grasping in Clutter

Yaoyao Qian, Xupeng Zhu, Ondrej Biza, Shuo Jiang, Linfeng Zhao, Haojie Huang, Yu Qi, Robert Platt
CoRL 2024
TL;DR
We have developed ThinkGrasp, a plug-and-play vision-language grasping system for heavy clutter environment grasping strategies.
E(2)-Equivariant Graph Planning for Navigation

E(2)-Equivariant Graph Planning for Navigation

Linfeng Zhao*, Hongyu Li*, Taskin Padir, Huaizu Jiang, Lawson L.S. Wong
IEEE RA-L 2024
IROS 2024 (Oral)
TL;DR
We study E(2) Euclidean equivariance in navigation on geometric graphs and develop message passing network to solve it.

2023

Integrating Symmetry into Differentiable Planning with Steerable Convolutions

Integrating Symmetry into Differentiable Planning with Steerable Convolutions

Linfeng Zhao, Xupeng Zhu*, Lingzhi Kong*, Robin Walters, Lawson L.S. Wong
ICLR 2023
RLDM 2022
TL;DR
We formulate how differentiable planning algorithms can exploit inherent symmetry in path planning problems, named SymPlan, and propose practical algorithms.
Scaling up and Stabilizing Differentiable Planning with Implicit Differentiation

Scaling up and Stabilizing Differentiable Planning with Implicit Differentiation

Linfeng Zhao, Huazhe Xu, Lawson L.S. Wong
ICLR 2023
TL;DR
We study how implicit differentiation helps scale up and improve convergence of differentiable planning algorithms.
Sample Efficient Modeling of Drag Coefficients for Satellites with Symmetry

Sample Efficient Modeling of Drag Coefficients for Satellites with Symmetry

Neel Sortur, Linfeng Zhao, Robin Walters
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop
TL;DR
We study sample-efficient modeling of invariant drag coefficients with equivariant networks.
Equivariant Single View Pose Prediction Via Induced and Restriction Representations

Equivariant Single View Pose Prediction Via Induced and Restriction Representations

Owen Howell, David Klee, Ondrej Biza, Linfeng Zhao, Robin Walters
NeurIPS 2023
TL;DR
We train an equivariant network for pose prediction from single 2D image by using induced and restricted representations.
Can Euclidean Symmetry Help in Reinforcement Learning and Planning?

Can Euclidean Symmetry Help in Reinforcement Learning and Planning?

Linfeng Zhao, Owen Howell, Jung Yeon Park, Xupeng Zhu, Robin Walters, Lawson L.S. Wong
ICML 2023 Workshop
TL;DR
We study whether Euclidean symmetry can help in reinforcement learning and planning, which models the geometric transformations between reference frames of robots.

2022

Toward Compositional Generalization in Object‑Oriented World Modeling

Toward Compositional Generalization in Object‑Oriented World Modeling

Linfeng Zhao, Lingzhi Kong, Robin Walters, Lawson L.S. Wong
ICML 2022 (Long Presentation, top 2%)
RLDM 2022
TL;DR
We formulate compositional generalization in object-oriented world modeling, and propose a soft and efficient mechanism for practice.
Learning Symmetric Embeddings for Equivariant World Models

Learning Symmetric Embeddings for Equivariant World Models

Jung Yeon Park, Ondrej Biza, Linfeng Zhao, Jan-Willem van de Meent, Robin Walters
ICML 2022
TL;DR
We learn latent representations enforced with known transformation laws (group action), and apply this idea on equivariant latent world modeling.

2021

Match Plan Generation in Web Search with Parameterized Action Reinforcement Learning

Match Plan Generation in Web Search with Parameterized Action Reinforcement Learning

Linfeng Zhao*, Ziyan Luo*, Wei Cheng*, Sihao Chen, Qi Chen, Hui Xue, Haidong Wang, Chuanjie Liu, Mao Yang, Lintao Zhang
WWW 2021
TL;DR
We propose a parameterized action reinforcement learning algorithm to improve the performance of match plan generation in Bing search.

2020

Deep Imitation Learning for Bimanual Robotic Manipulation

Deep Imitation Learning for Bimanual Robotic Manipulation

Fan Xie*, Alexander Chowdhury*, M. Clara De Paolis Kaluza, Linfeng Zhao, Lawson L.S. Wong, Rose Yu
NeurIPS 2020
TL;DR
We present a deep imitation learning framework for robotic bimanual manipulation in a continuous state-action space.
Model-based Navigation in Environments with Novel Layouts Using Abstract 2-D Maps

Model-based Navigation in Environments with Novel Layouts Using Abstract 2-D Maps

Linfeng Zhao, Lawson L.S. Wong
NeurIPS 2020 Workshop
TL;DR
This work aims to improve the zero-shot generalization performance in map-based navigation on novel layouts.

2019

InterFact: Towards Interactive Factorization of Actionable Entities

InterFact: Towards Interactive Factorization of Actionable Entities

Linfeng Zhao, Hao Su
Preprint 2019
TL;DR
This work proposes a reinforcement learning framework for compositional object-oriented environments.