Weiyu Liu

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar working with Jiajun Wu in the CogAI group and Stanford Vision and Learning Lab (SVL). I completed my Ph.D. in robotics at Georgia Institute of Technology, where I am advised by Sonia Chernova. In 2021 and 2022, I interned at Nvidia Research, working with Dieter Fox, Tucker Hermans, Animesh Garg, and Chris Paxton. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech.

The goal of my research is to develop robots that can effectively perceive, model, and interact with the real world. I am particularly interested in the application where human users can easily command robots to complete long-horizon tasks via simple language commands, such as "make the tea". Achieving this requires robust generalization across various dimensions, including objects, environments, actions, and tasks. My core insight is that strong generalization can be achieved through a structured representation of world knowledge. Rather than constructing this representation from scratch, robots should leverage the rich knowledge embedded in human language, grounding it through interactions with their environments to connect abstract knowledge to their sensorimotor capabilities.

My prior research has investigated core components of this structured knowledge representation, methods to extract and refine this knowledge extracted from humans, and algorithms that enable reasoning with this knowledge to support broad generalization.

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Learning Compositional Behaviors from Demonstration and Language

Weiyu Liu*, Neil Nie*, Ruohan Zhang, Jiayuan Mao, Jiajun Wu
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024
2nd Workshop on Learning Effective Abstractions for Planning (LEAP), 2024 (Oral Presentation)
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planning_abstractions_png Learning Planning Abstractions from Language

Weiyu Liu*, Geng Chen*, Joy Hsu, Jiayuan Mao, Jiajun Wu
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
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IKEA Manuals at Work: 4D Grounding of Assembly Instructions on Internet Videos

Yunong Liu, Cristobal Eyzaguirre, Manling Li, Shubh Khanna, Juan Carlos Niebles, Vineeth Ravi, Saumitra Mishra, Weiyu Liu, Jiajun Wu
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2024
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3d_visual_grounding_png Naturally Supervised 3D Visual Grounding with Language-Regularized Concept Learners

Chun Feng*, Joy Hsu*, Weiyu Liu, Jiajun Wu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
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embodied_agent_interface_png Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making

Manling Li*, Shiyu Zhao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Yu Zhou*, Sanjana Srivastava, Cem Gokmen, Tony Lee, Li Erran Li, Ruohan Zhang, Weiyu Liu,
Percy Liang, Li Fei-Fei, Jiayuan Mao, Jiajun Wu
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2024
(Oral Presentation)
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marple_png MARPLE: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Inference

Emily Jin, Zhuoyi Huang, Jan-Philipp Fränken, Weiyu Liu, Hannah Cha, Sarah A. Wu, Erik Brockbank, Ruohan Zhang, Jiajun Wu, Tobias Gerstenberg
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2024
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Composable Part-Based Manipulation

Weiyu Liu, Jiayuan Mao, Joy Hsu, Tucker Hermans, Animesh Garg, Jiajun Wu
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023
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StructDiffusion: Language-Guided Creation of Physically-Valid Structures using Unseen Objects

Weiyu Liu, Yilun Du, Tucker Hermans, Sonia Chernova, Chris Paxton
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2023
CoRL Workshop on Language and Robot Learning, 2022
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survey_png A Survey of Semantic Reasoning Frameworks for Robotic Systems

Weiyu Liu1, Angel Daruna1, Maithili Patel2, Kartik Ramachandruni2, Sonia Chernova
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2023
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Latent Space Planning for Multi-Object Manipulation with Environment-Aware Relational Classifiers

Yixuan Huang, Nichols Crawford Taylor, Adam Conkey, Weiyu Liu, Tucker Hermans,
Transactions on Robotics (TR-O), 2023
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grasp_gpt GraspGPT: Leveraging Semantic Knowledge from a Large Language Model for Task-Oriented Grasping

Chao Tang, Dehao Huang Wenqi Ge, Weiyu Liu, Hong Zhang
Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
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StructFormer: Learning Spatial Structure for Language-Guided Semantic Rearrangement of Novel Objects

Weiyu Liu, Chris Paxton, Tucker Hermans, Dieter Fox
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
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Learning Instance-Level N-Ary Semantic Knowledge At Scale For Robots Operating in Everyday Environments

Weiyu Liu, Dhruva Bansal, Angel Daruna, Sonia Chernova
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2021
Autonomous Robots, 2023   (Invited Submission)
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Towards Robust One-shot Task Execution using Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Angel Daruna, Lakshmi Nair, Weiyu Liu, Sonia Chernova
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
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An Affordance Keypoint Detection Network for Robot Manipulation

Ruinian Xu, Fu-Jen Chu, Chao Tang, Weiyu Liu, Patricio Vela
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2021
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Same Object, Different Grasps: Data and Semantic Knowledge for Task-Oriented Grasping

Adithya Murali, Weiyu Liu, Kenneth Marino, Sonia Chernova, Abhinav Gupta
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020
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CAGE: Context-Aware Grasping Engine

Weiyu Liu, Angel Daruna, Sonia Chernova
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
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Path Ranking with Attention to Type Hierarchies

Weiyu Liu, Angel Daruna, Zsolt Kira, Sonia Chernova
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020   (Oral Presentation)
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b3do Taking Recoveries to Task: Recovery-Driven Development for Recipe-based Robot Tasks

Siddhartha Banerjee*, Angel Daruna*, David Kent*, Weiyu Liu*, Jonathan Balloch, Abhinav Jain, Akshay Krishnan, Muhammad Asif Rana, Harish Ravichandar, Binit Shah, Nithin Shrivatsav, Sonia Chernova
International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2019
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RoboCSE: Robot Common Sense Embedding

Angel Daruna, Weiyu Liu, Zsolt Kira, Sonia Chernova
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019
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Autonomous flying blimp interaction with human in an indoor space

Ningshi Yao, Qiuyang Tao, Weiyu Liu, Zhen Liu, Ye Tian, Peiyu Wang, Timothy Li, Fumin Zhang,
Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2019
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b3do SiRoK: Situated Robot Knowledge - Understanding the Balance Between Situated Knowledge and Variability

Sonia Chernova, Vivian Chu, Angel Daruna, Haley Garrison, Meera Hahn, Priyanka Khante, Weiyu Liu, Andrea Thomaz,
AAAI Spring Symposium Series (AAAI-SSS), 2018
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Situated Bayesian Reasoning Framework for Robots Operating in Diverse Everyday Environments

Sonia Chernova, Vivian Chu, Angel Daruna, Haley Garrison, Meera Hahn, Priyanka Khante, Weiyu Liu, Andrea Thomaz,
International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2017
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