Yuyao Liu

Yuyao Liu

刘域尧

About Me

I am an incoming PhD student at MIT EECS. Prior to MIT, I received B.Eng. in Computer Science from Yao Class, IIIS at Tsinghua University in June 2025, where I had the privilege of being advised by Prof. Huazhe Xu. I was also greatly inspired and enriched by my collaboration with Jiayuan Mao during my visit at MIT.

News

  • (Jun 2025): I graduated from Tsinghua University as Outstanding Graduate honored by Beijing (Top 5%), by Tsinghua (Top 2%), and by Yao Class (Top 10%)!

  • (Jan 2025): MAGIC was accepted at ICRA 2025!

  • (Jan 2025): Stem-OB was accepted at ICLR 2025 as a Spotlight paper!

  • (Dec 2024): I will be giving a talk at the Yao Class Seminar!

  • (Oct 2024): I was honored with the National Scholarship (top 0.2% of students nationwide)!

  • (Sep 2024): I was awarded the “Andrew C. Yao Award” Gold Medal (the highest honor at Yao Class, 1 student)!

  • (Jun 2024): I received the SenseTime AI Scholarship (25 students across China)!

Publications

One-Shot Manipulation Strategy Learning by Making Contact Analogies
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
Yuyao Liu, Jiayuan Mao, Joshua Tenenbaum, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
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One-Shot Manipulation Strategy Learning by Making Contact Analogies
Stem-Ob: Generalizable Visual Imitation Learning with Stem-Like Convergent Observation through Diffusion Inversion
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025 (Spotlight)
Kaizhe Hu, Zihang Rui, Yao He, Yuyao Liu, Pu Hua, Huazhe Xu
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Stem-Ob: Generalizable Visual Imitation Learning with Stem-Like Convergent Observation through Diffusion Inversion
Rethinking Transformers in Solving POMDPs
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
Chenhao Lu, Ruizhe Shi, Yuyao Liu, Kaizhe Hu, Simon Shaolei Du, Huazhe Xu
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Rethinking Transformers in Solving POMDPs
Unleashing the Power of Pre-trained Language Models for Offline Reinforcement Learning
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
Ruizhe Shi, Yuyao Liu, Yanjie Ze, Simon Shaolei Du, Huazhe Xu
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Unleashing the Power of Pre-trained Language Models for Offline Reinforcement Learning
H-InDex: Visual Reinforcement Learning with Hand-Informed Representations for Dexterous Manipulation
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
Yanjie Ze, Yuyao Liu, Ruizhe Shi, Jiaxin Qin, Zhecheng Yuan, Jiashun Wang, Huazhe Xu
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H-InDex: Visual Reinforcement Learning with Hand-Informed Representations for Dexterous Manipulation

Miscellaneous

In my spare time, I enjoy playing Hockey, Skating (also Roller Skating) and playing Table Tennis. I am also a big fan of Musicals.

  • I was a member of Hockey Team, Tsinghua University from October 2023 to June 2025. We won the Championship in CUHL regular season 2024!
  • I was the manager of Table Tennis Club, IIIS, Tsinghua University from September 2022 to September 2023.
Hockey Team