Publications in 2026

SyncWorld: Visual Calibration Enables World Models as Zero-Shot Simulators
Yuncong Yang*, Zhengtao Han*, Furkan Özyurt*, Zeyuan Yang, Han Yang, Junyi Cao, Haoyu Zhen, Yilun Du, Chuang Gan
NeurIPS 2026 (Oral)
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Action Images: End-to-End Policy Learning via Multiview Video Generation
Haoyu Zhen*, Zixian Gao*, Qiao Sun, Yilin Zhao, Yuncong Yang, Yilun Du, Pengsheng Guo, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Yi-Ling Qiao, Chuang Gan
NeurIPS 2026
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RoboWits: Unexpected Challenges for Robotic Creative Problem Solving
Chunru Lin*, Hongxin Zhang*, Fenghao Yu, Zhehuan Chen, Thomas L. Griffiths, Yejin Choi, David Held, Chuang Gan
NeurIPS 2026
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SPOT: Spatial Perception-Oriented Long-Horizon Humanoid Teleoperation
Lixing Fang*, Ziyan Xiong*, Sunli Chen, Zhiyang Dou, Chuang Gan
CoRL 2026
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ExtremControl: Low-Latency Humanoid Teleoperation with Direct Extremity Control
Ziyan Xiong*, Lixing Fang*, Junyun Huang*, Kashu Yamazaki, Hao Zhang, Chuang Gan
CoRL 2026
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HARP-Bench: Benchmarking Robot Manipulation Around Active Humans
Qinhong Zhou*, Riley Zong*, Chunru Lin, Shivraj Singh Bhatti, Hongxin Zhang, Diyi Hu, Lin Qiu, Hanqing Zeng, Chuang Gan
CoRL 2026
IM-ENGINE: Image Editing for Embodied Data Generation
Yian Wang*, Junyi Cao*, Xiaowen Qiu, Chuang Gan
CoRL 2026
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Better Call CineCrew: Consistent Ultra-Long Narrative-to-Film Generation
Jiaben Chen*, Sixun Dong*, Qinhong Zhou, Raine Ma, Zhiyang Dou, Wojciech Matusik, Chuang Gan
ECCV 2026
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Fast Spatial Memory with Scalable Elastic Test-Time Training
Ziqiao Ma*, Xueyang Yu*, Haoyu Zhen, Yuncong Yang, Joyce Chai, Chuang Gan
ECCV 2026
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3D-Layout-R1: Structured Reasoning for Language-Instructed Spatial Editing
Haoyu Zhen*, Xiaolong Li*, Yilin Zhao*, Han Zhang, Sifei Liu, Kaichun Mo, Chuang Gan, Subhashree Radhakrishnan
ECCV 2026
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Sentinel: Embodied Cooperative Spatial Reasoning and Planning
Xiangye Lin*, Hongxin Zhang*, Ruxi Deng, Qinhong Zhou, Chuang Gan
ECCV 2026
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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
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Steering LLM Thinking with Budget Guidance
Junyan Li, Wenshuo Zhao, Yang Zhang, Chuang Gan
ACL 2026 (Findings)
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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
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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
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
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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
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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