Yu-Cen Wang @ LAMDA, NJU-AI
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汪钰岑 Email: wangyc@lamda.nju.edu.cn |
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Short Biography
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Sept. 2023 - Present : Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Technology, School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, under the supervision of Prof. De-Chuan Zhan.
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Sept. 2020 - Jun. 2023 : M.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology, School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, under the supervision of Prof. De-Chuan Zhan.
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Sept. 2016 - Jun. 2020 : B.Sc. in Information Management and Information System, School of Information Management, Nanjing University.
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Apr. 2025 - Present : Research Intern (Reinforcement Learning), Machine Learning Group, Microsoft Research Asia
Main Research Interests
My research interests include Reinforcement Learning and World Models. Currently, I mainly focus on:
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Advanced World Model learning and related topics, e.g. Latent Action Modeling and Video Foundation Models.
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RL and decision making with LLMs and VLMs.
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Embodied AI and Vision-Language-Action models.
I have also worked on Model-Based RL and representation learning in Visual RL.
Preprints
Yucen Wang, Rui Yu, Fengming Zhang, Junjie Lu, Xinyao Qin, Tianxiang Zhang, Kaixin Wang, Li Zhao. Reinforcing VLAs in Task-Agnostic World Models. [Paper]
Publications
Yucen Wang, Fengming Zhang, De-Chuan Zhan, Li Zhao, Kaixin Wang, Jiang Bian. Co-Evolving Latent Action World Models. ICML 2026. [Paper] [Website]
Yucen Wang, Rui Yu, Shenghua Wan, Le Gan, De-Chuan Zhan. FOUNDER: Grounding Foundation Models in World Models for Open-Ended Embodied Decision Making. ICML 2025. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
Yucen Wang*, Shenghua Wan*, Le Gan, Shuai Feng, De-Chuan Zhan. AD3: Implicit Action is the Key for World Models to Distinguish the Diverse Visual Distractors. ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
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Xiaoyu Chen, Hangxing Wei, Pushi Zhang, Chuheng Zhang, Kaixin Wang, Yanjiang Guo, Rushuai Yang, Yucen Wang, Xinquan Xiao, Li Zhao, Jianyu Chen, Jiang Bian. Villa-x: enhancing latent action modeling in vision-language-action models. ICLR 2026. [Paper] [Website]
Rui Yu, Shenghua Wan, Yucen Wang, Chen-Xiao Gao, Le Gan, Zongzhang Zhang, De-Chuan Zhan. Reward Models in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey. IJCAI 2025 survey Track. [Paper]
Shenghua Wan, Yucen Wang, Minghao Shao, Ruying Chen, De-chuan Zhan. SeMAIL: Eliminating Distractors in Visual Imitation vis Separated Models. ICML 2023. [Paper] [Code]
Awards & Honors
LAMDA Excellent Student Award, 2022.
Teaching Assistant
Advanced Machine Learning. (For undergraduate students, Autumn, 2023)
Computing Methods. (For undergraduate students, Spring, 2024)
Correspondence
Email: wangyc@lamda.nju.edu.cn
Office: Room 201, Yi-fu Building, Xianlin Campus of Nanjing University
Address: National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology
Nanjing University, Xianlin Campus
163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, China