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Yutong Liang

I study dexterous robotic manipulation through human demonstrations, reinforcement learning, and world models.

San Diego · US

Robotics · Character Animation

About

Hi there! I'm Yutong Liang, a first-year graduate student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego, advised by Prof. Xiaolong Wang.

My research aims to develop general-purpose physics agents that can comprehend the world and operate with human-level dexterity.

I believe the next leap in robot manipulation will come from world models that learn how the physical world evolves, human demonstrations that provide scalable motion priors, and reinforcement learning that closes the final gap to dynamic, contact-rich control.

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Publications

XL-VLA: Cross-Hand Latent Representation for Vision-Language-Action Models

Guangqi Jiang*, Yutong Liang*, Jianglong Ye, Jia-Yang Huang, Changwei Jing, Rocky Duan, Pieter Abbeel, Xiaolong Wang†, Xueyan Zou†

Takeaway: Embodiment-invariant latent action space enhances performance as demonstrations scale across different hand embodiments, similarly to scaling with additional data from a single hand.

DexterCap: An Affordable and Automated System for Capturing Dexterous Hand-Object Manipulation

Yutong Liang*, Shiyi Xu*, Yulong Zhang*, Bowen Zhan, He Zhang, Libin Liu

Takeaway: Dexterous in-hand manipulation can be captured by providing dense motion information while minimizing interference caused by markers.

GSWorld: Closed-Loop Photo-Realistic Simulation Suite for Robotic Manipulation

Guangqi Jiang*, Haoran Chang*, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Yutong Liang, Mazeyu Ji, Jiyue Zhu, Zhao Dong, Xueyan Zou, Xiaolong Wang

ROBOVERSE: Towards a Unified Platform, Dataset and Benchmark for Scalable and Generalizable Robot Learning

ROBOVERSE: Towards a Unified Platform, Dataset and Benchmark for Scalable and Generalizable Robot Learning

RoboVerse Team

SimiSketch: A Sketching Algorithm for Similarity Estimation

Fenghao Dong, Yang He*, Yutong Liang*, Zirui Liu, Yuhan Wu, Peiqing Chen, and Tong Yang

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