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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 focuses on dexterous robotic manipulation, with the long-term goal of developing embodied agents that can operate with human-level dexterity.

I believe human demonstrations and reinforcement learning offer a practical low-level motion prior for dynamic, contact-rich robot learning, while world models provide a useful framework for long-horizon planning.

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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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