Publications in 2026
Tailored Primitive Initialization is the Secret Key to Reinforcement Learning
Yihang Yao, Guangtao Zeng, Raina Wu, Yang Zhang, Ding Zhao, Zhang-Wei Hong, Chuang Gan
ACL 2026

Steering LLM Thinking with Budget Guidance
Junyan Li, Wenshuo Zhao, Yang Zhang, Chuang Gan
ACL 2026 (Findings)

GHOST: Hierarchical Sub-Goal Policies for Generalizing Robot Manipulation
Sriram Krishna, Ben Eisner, Haotian Zhan, Ying Yuan, Haoyu Zhen, Chuang Gan, Shubham Tulsiani, David Held
RSS 2026

DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong, Chunru Lin, Zhehuan Chen, Chuang Gan
ICML 2026
LLawCo: Learning Laws of Cooperation for Modeling Embodied Multi-Agent Behavior
Qinhong Zhou, Chuang Gan, Anoop Cherian
ICML 2026
DAGE: Dual-Stream Architecture for Efficient and Fine-Grained Geometry Estimation
Tuan Duc Ngo, Jiahui Huang, Seoung Wug Oh, Kevin Blackburn-Matzen, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Chuang Gan, Joon-Young Lee
CVPR 2026
Machine Mental Imagery: Empower Multimodal Reasoning with Latent Visual Tokens
Zeyuan Yang, Xueyang Yu, Delin Chen, Maohao Shen, Chuang Gan
CVPR 2026
BOAD: Discovering Hierarchical Software Engineering Agents via Bandit Optimization
Iris Xu, Guangtao Zeng, Zexue He, Charles Jin, Aldo Pareja, Dan Gutfreund, Chuang Gan, Zhang-Wei Hong
ICLR 2026

PhyScensis: Physics-Augmented LLM Agents for Complex Physical Scene Arrangement
Yian Wang, Han Yang, Minghao Guo, Xiaowen Qiu, Johnson (Tsun-Hsuan) Wang, Wojciech Matusik, Joshua B Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan
ICLR 2026

Virtual Community: An Open World for Humans, Robots, and Society
Qinhong Zhou*, Hongxin Zhang*, Xiangye Lin*, Zheyuan Zhang*, Yutian Chen, Wenjun Liu, Zunzhe Zhang, Sunli Chen, Lixing Fang, Qiushi Lyu, Xinyu Sun, Jincheng Yang, Zeyuan Wang, Bao Chi Dang, Zhehuan Chen, Daksha Ladia, Jiageng Liu, Chuang Gan
ICLR 2026