Publications

A collection of my research work.

LessMimic: Long-Horizon Humanoid Interaction with Unified Distance Field Representations

LessMimic: Long-Horizon Humanoid Interaction with Unified Distance Field Representations

Yutang Lin*, Jieming Cui*, Yixuan Li, Baoxiong Jia†, Yixin Zhu†, Siyuan Huang†

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026

LessMimic is a unified framework for humanoid-object interaction that learns directly from distance fields, enabling reference-free, geometrically-generalizable, and long-horizon skill composition.

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UniLab: A Heterogeneous Architecture for Robot RL Beyond GPU-Dominant Paradigms

UniLab: A Heterogeneous Architecture for Robot RL Beyond GPU-Dominant Paradigms

Yufei Jia*, Zhanxiang Cao*, Mingrui Yu*, Heng Zhang*, Shenyu Chen*, Dixuan Jiang*, Meng Li, Xiaofan Li, Yiyang Liu, Junzhe Wu, Zheng Li, XiLin Fang, Tingyu Cui, Shengcheng Fu, Haoyang Li, Anqi Wang, Zifan Wang, Dongjie Zhu, Chenyu Cao, Zhenbiao Huang, Ziang Zheng, Jie Lu, Xin Ma, Zhengyang Wei, Xiang Zhao, Tianyue Zhan, Ye He, Yuxiang Chen, Yizhou Jiang, Yue Li, Haizhou Ge, Yuhang Dong, Fan Jia, Ziheng Zhang, Meng Zhang, Xiwa Deng, Zhixing Chen, Hanyang Shao, Chenxin Dong, Yixuan Li, Yizhi Chen, Bokui Chen, Kaifeng Zhang, Hanqing Cui, Yusen Qin, Ruqi Huang, Lei Han†, Tiancai Wang†, Xiang Li†, Yue Gao†, Guyue Zhou†

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2026

UniLab is configurable infrastructure for robot reinforcement learning.

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Embodied Scene Rearrangement Planning

Embodied Scene Rearrangement Planning

Canzhi Chen*, Zan Wang*, Siqi Zhu*, Qi Wu*, Yixuan Li*, Wei Liang†

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2026

ESRP introduces a benchmark and task that challenges robotic agents to move 3D indoor furniture from an initial setup to a target layout.

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OmniClone: Engineering a Robust, All-RounderWhole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation System

OmniClone: Engineering a Robust, All-RounderWhole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation System

Yixuan Li*, Le Ma*, Yutang Lin*, Yushi Du, Mengya Liu, Kaizhe Hu, Jieming Cui, Yixin Zhu†, Wei Liang†, Baoxiong Jia†, Siyuan Huang†

ArXiv 2026

OmniClone is a whole-body humanoid teleoperation system that achieves high-fidelity, multi-skill control on a single consumer GPU with modest data requirements.

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Learning Human-Humanoid Coordination for Collaborative Object Carrying

Learning Human-Humanoid Coordination for Collaborative Object Carrying

Yushi Du*, Yixuan Li*, Baoxiong Jia†*, Yutang Lin, Pei Zhou, Wei Liang†, Yanchao Yang†, Siyuan Huang†

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026

COLA is a proprioception-only reinforcement learning approach that combines leader and follower behaviors within a single policy, enabling compliant human-humanoid collaborative carrying.

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What You See Is What You Wear: Crafting Garments for Diverse Avatars with Consistent Wearing Effects.

What You See Is What You Wear: Crafting Garments for Diverse Avatars with Consistent Wearing Effects.

Zan Wang*, Anqi Li*, Yixuan Li, Wei Liang†, Bing Ning

Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2026

Tailor is a two-stage framework that dresses 3D humanoid avatars from a single reference image while preserving the wearing effects observed in the image.

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Human Motion Estimation with Everyday Wearables

Human Motion Estimation with Everyday Wearables

Siqi Zhu*, Yixuan Li*, Junfu Li*, Qi Wu*, Zan Wang*, Haozhe Ma, Wei Liang†

ArXiv 2025

EveryWear is a lightweight and practical human motion capture approach based entirely on everyday wearables.

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CLONE: Closed-Loop Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation for Long-Horizon Tasks

CLONE: Closed-Loop Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation for Long-Horizon Tasks

Yixuan Li*, Yutang Lin*, Jieming Cui, Tengyu Liu, Wei Liang†, Yixin Zhu†, Siyuan Huang†

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025

CLONE is a whole-body teleoperation system that overcomes the limitations of decoupled upper- and lower-body control and open-loop execution.

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Env-Mani: Quadrupedal Robot Loco-Manipulation with Environment-in-the-Loop

Env-Mani: Quadrupedal Robot Loco-Manipulation with Environment-in-the-Loop

Yixuan Li, Zan Wang, Wei Liang†

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025

Env-Mani is a unified, learning-based loco-manipulation framework for quadrupedal robots that allows them to utilize the external environment as support to extend their workspace and enhance their manipulation capabilities.

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R2G: Reasoning to ground in 3D scenes

R2G: Reasoning to ground in 3D scenes

Yixuan Li, Zan Wang, Wei Liang†

Pattern Recognition 2025

R2G is a neural symbolic model that grounds the target objects in 3D scenes in a reasoning manner.

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Move to Understand a 3D Scene: Bridging Visual Grounding and Exploration for Efficient and Versatile Embodied Navigation

Move to Understand a 3D Scene: Bridging Visual Grounding and Exploration for Efficient and Versatile Embodied Navigation

Ziyu Zhu, Xilin Wang, Yixuan Li, Zhuofan Zhang, Xiaojian Ma, Yixin Chen, Baoxiong Jia, Wei Liang, Qian Yu, Zhidong Deng†, Siyuan Huang†, Qing Li†

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025

MTU3D is a unified framework that integrates active perception with 3D vision-language learning, enabling embodied agents to effectively explore and understand their environment.

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