Publications

2026

1. ICRA

   

   Look, Focus, Act: Efficient and Robust Robot Learning via Human Gaze and Foveated Vision Transformers ICRA

   Ian Chuang, Jinyu Zou, Andrew Lee,  Dechen Gao , and Iman Soltani

   2026

   Website arXiv

2025

1. ICLR

   

   VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy ICLR

   Dechen Gao , Boqi Zhao, Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Hanchu Zhou, Hang Wang, Zhe Zhao, Junshan Zhang, and Iman Soltani

   2025

   Website arXiv PDF Bib

   @misc{gao2025vitavisiontoactionflowmatching,
     title = {VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy},
     author = {Gao, Dechen and Zhao, Boqi and Lee, Andrew and Chuang, Ian and Zhou, Hanchu and Wang, Hang and Zhao, Zhe and Zhang, Junshan and Soltani, Iman},
     year = {2025},
     eprint = {2507.13231},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.CV},
   }

2. Preprint

   

   IN-RIL: Interleaved Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Policy Fine-Tuning Preprint

   Dechen Gao , Hang Wang, Hanchu Zhou, Nejib Ammar, Shatadal Mishra, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Iman Soltani, and Junshan Zhang

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.10442, 2025

   arXiv Bib

   @article{gao2025ril,
     title = {IN-RIL: Interleaved Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Policy Fine-Tuning},
     author = {Gao, Dechen and Wang, Hang and Zhou, Hanchu and Ammar, Nejib and Mishra, Shatadal and Moradipari, Ahmadreza and Soltani, Iman and Zhang, Junshan},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.10442},
     year = {2025},
   }

3. Preprint

   

   Gaze on the Prize: Shaping Visual Attention with Return-Guided Contrastive Learning Preprint

   Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang,  Dechen Gao , Kai Fukazawa, and Iman Soltani

   2025

   Website arXiv
4. IEEE IoTJ

   EI-Drive: A Platform for Cooperative Perception with Realistic Communication Models IEEE IoTJ

   Hanchu Zhou, Edward Xie, Wei Shao,  Dechen Gao , Michelle Dong, and Junshan Zhang

   IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025

   Website arXiv Bib

   @article{zhou2024ei,
     title = {EI-Drive: A Platform for Cooperative Perception with Realistic Communication Models},
     author = {Zhou, Hanchu and Xie, Edward and Shao, Wei and Gao, Dechen and Dong, Michelle and Zhang, Junshan},
     journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. IEEE IoTJ

   Cardreamer: Open-source learning platform for world model based autonomous driving IEEE IoTJ

   Dechen Gao , Shuangyu Cai, Hanchu Zhou, Hang Wang, Iman Soltani, and Junshan Zhang

   IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2024

   Website PDF Bib

   @article{gao2024cardreamer,
     title = {Cardreamer: Open-source learning platform for world model based autonomous driving},
     author = {Gao, Dechen and Cai, Shuangyu and Zhou, Hanchu and Wang, Hang and Soltani, Iman and Zhang, Junshan},
     journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {IEEE},
   }

2. ICRA

   Active vision might be all you need: Exploring active vision in bimanual robotic manipulation ICRA

   Ian Chuang, Andrew Lee,  Dechen Gao , and Iman Soltani

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17435, 2024

   Website arXiv Bib

   @article{chuang2024active,
     title = {Active vision might be all you need: Exploring active vision in bimanual robotic manipulation},
     author = {Chuang, Ian and Lee, Andrew and Gao, Dechen and Soltani, Iman},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17435},
     year = {2024},
   }

3. Preprint

   World-Model based Hierarchical Planning with Semantic Communications for Autonomous Driving Preprint

   Dechen Gao , Hang Wang, Shuangyu Cai, Hanchu Zhou, Nejib Ammar, Shatadal Mishra, Iman Soltani, and Junshan Zhang

   2024
4. Preprint

   Ego-centric Learning of Communicative World Models for Autonomous Driving Preprint

   Hang Wang,  Dechen Gao , Qiaoyi Fang, and Junshan Zhang

   2024

   arXiv Bib

   @article{wangego,
     title = {Ego-centric Learning of Communicative World Models for Autonomous Driving},
     author = {Wang, Hang and Gao, Dechen and Fang, Qiaoyi and Zhang, Junshan},
     year = {2024}
   }