PhD student wraps up robotics planning series with EMPIRIC residual world model
tomssilver · x · 2026-10-07
PhD student @yichaoliang announced he's on the job market, summarizing his four first-author works on generalizable robot planning: RMA² (CVPR 2024, manipulation skills), VisualPredicator (ICLR 2025, state abstraction), ExoPredicator (ICLR 2026, temporal abstraction), and EMPIRIC (residual world models) — his final first-author paper. He seeks research roles in world models, RL, robotics, and agents; robotics researcher Tom Silver gave a public endorsement.
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