Publications

Metonymic Circuits for Abstract Concept Grounding in Vision Transformers

Jing Ding, Ziqiao Ma, Jiayuan Mao, Joyce Chai, Freda Shi

EMNLP 2026·Paper

Building Intelligent Agents with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts

Jiayuan Mao, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jiajun Wu

Communications of the ACM·Paper / CACM

ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG

Botao He, Zhi Wang, Linna Kuang, Ishaan Ghosh, Jitendra Malik, Cornelia Fermuller, Tingfan Wu, Jiayuan Mao, Ruoshi Liu, Haozhi Qi, Yiannis Aloimonos

ArXiv Preprint·Paper / Project Page / Code

Guava: An Effective and Universal Harness for Embodied Manipulation

Haowen Liu, Xirui Li, Shaoxiong Yao, Peng Shi, Tianyi Zhou, Jia-Bin Huang, Furong Huang, Jiayuan Mao

ArXiv Preprint·Paper / Project Page

Understanding and Mitigating the Video-Action Generalization Gap via Temporal Ratio

Utkarsh A. Mishra, Yongxin Chen, Danfei Xu, Yang Liu, Xi Chen, Jiayuan Mao

ArXiv Preprint·Paper / Project Page

Discovering Hybrid World Representations with Co-Evolving Foundation Models

Jiajun Wu, Yunzhi Zhang, Hong-Xing Yu, Joy Hsu, Jiayuan Mao

AAAI 2026·Paper

SIMPACT: Simulation-Enabled Action Planning using Vision-Language Models

Haowen Liu, Shaoxiong Yao, Haonan Chen, Jiawei Gao, Jiayuan Mao, Jia-Bin Huang, Yilun Du

CVPR 2026·Paper / Project Page

Composition-Grounded Data Synthesis for Visual Reasoning

Xinyi Gu, Jiayuan Mao, Zhang-Wei Hong, Zhuoran Yu, Pengyuan Li, Dhiraj Joshi, Rogerio Feris, Zexue He

ICLR 2026·Paper / Project Page / Code / Data

V-GRPO: Online Reinforcement Learning for Denoising Generative Models Is Easier than You Think

Bingda Tang, Yuhui Zhang, Xiaohan Wang, Jiayuan Mao, Ludwig Schmidt, Serena Yeung-Levy

CVPR 2026 Findings·Paper / Code

ActionEQA: Action Interface for Embodied Question Answering

Tianwei Bao, Qineng Wang, Kangrui Wang, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Jiayuan Mao, Larry Birnbaum, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing, Zhaoran Wang, Manling Li

TMLR 2026·Paper / Project Page / Code / Dataset

Learning Composable Skills by Discovering Spatial and Temporal Structure with Foundation Models

Neil Nie, Wenlong Huang, Jiayuan Mao, Li Fei-Fei, Weiyu Liu, Jiajun Wu

ICRA 2026·Paper / Project Page / Code

Multi-Modal Manipulation via Multi-Modal Policy Consensus

Haonan Chen, Jiaming Xu, Hongyu Chen, Kaiwen Hong, Binghao Huang, Chaoqi Liu, Jiayuan Mao, Yunzhu Li, Yilun Du, Katherine Driggs-Campbell

ICRA 2026·Paper / Project Page / Code

Adversarial Game-Theoretic Algorithm for Dexterous Grasp Synthesis

Yu Chen, Botao He, Yuemin Mao, Arthur Jakobsson, Jeffrey Ke, Yiannis Aloimonos, Guanya Shi, Howie Choset, Jiayuan Mao, Jeffrey Ichnowski

ICRA 2026·Paper