Publications

2026

  1. PhyMotion: Structured 3D Motion Reward for Physics-Grounded Human Video Generation
    Huang, Yidong, Wang, Zun, Lin, Han, Kim, Dong-Ki, Omidshafiei, Shayegan, Yoon, Jaehong, Cho, Jaemin, Zhang, Yue, and Bansal, Mohit
    In The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026

2025

  1. The Mechanistic Emergence of Symbol Grounding in Language Models
    Wu, Shuyu, Ma, Ziqiao, Luo, Xiaoxi,  Huang, Yidong, Torres-Fonseca, Josue, Shi, Freda, and Chai, Joyce
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.13796, 2025
  2. Planning with Sketch-Guided Verification for Physics-Aware Video Generation
    Huang, Yidong, Wang, Zun, Lin, Han, Kim, Dong-Ki, Omidshafiei, Shayegan, Yoon, Jaehong, Zhang, Yue, and Bansal, Mohit
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.17450, 2025

2024

  1. Inversion-free image editing with language-guided diffusion models
    Xu, Sihan,  Huang, Yidong, Pan, Jiayi, Ma, Ziqiao, and Chai, Joyce
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 9452–9461, 2024
  2. Drivlme: Enhancing llm-based autonomous driving agents with embodied and social experiences
    Huang, Yidong, Sansom, Jacob, Ma, Ziqiao, Gervits, Felix, and Chai, Joyce
    In 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3153–3160, 2024

2023

  1. A-ESRGAN: Training real-world blind super-resolution with attention U-Net Discriminators
    Wei, Zihao,  Huang, Yidong, Chen, Yuang, Zheng, Chenhao, and Gao, Jingnan
    In Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 16–27, 2023
  2. CycleNet: Rethinking Cycle Consistency in Text-Guided Diffusion for Image Manipulation
    Xu, Sihan, Ma, Ziqiao,  Huang, Yidong, Lee, Honglak, and Chai, Joyce
    In Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023

2022

  1. DOROTHIE: Spoken Dialogue for Handling Unexpected Situations in Interactive Autonomous Driving Agents
    Ma, Ziqiao, VanDerPloeg, Benjamin, Bara, Cristian-Paul,  Huang, Yidong, Kim, Eui-In, Gervits, Felix, Marge, Matthew, and Chai, Joyce
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pp. 4800–4822, 2022
  2. Discovering Intrinsic Reward with Contrastive Random Walk
    Pan, Zixuan, Wei, Zihao,  Huang, Yidong, and Gupta, Aditya
    2022
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