Xinyu Shao

Xinyu Shao 邵新宇

Ph.D. Student @ Tsinghua University

I work on robot learning and embodied intelligence, with a focus on VLA policies, generative world models, and data-efficient robot manipulation.

I am a fourth-year direct-entry Ph.D. student in Electronic Information at Tsinghua University (SIGS), advised by Prof. Xiu Li in the Intelligent Computing Lab. I study how generative models support physical decision making through spatial grounding, data-efficient diffusion policies, and task-conditioned priors from frozen video models.

Research Interests

  • Vision-Language-Action Models
  • World Models for Robot Learning
  • Generative Policies / Diffusion Policies
  • Spatial Grounding & Affordance
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One paper, Beyond Video Generation: Exploring Latent Interaction Priors from Frozen Video World Models for Robot Learning, was accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop: Robot Learning with World Models: Capabilities, Frontiers, and Challenges.

One paper, RASR: Range-Aware Scale Recovery for Metric UAV Navigation, was accepted to the ACM MM 2026 Workshop UAVM.

Decision-making taxonomy and publication trends across generative decision-making methods

arXiv preprint · 2025

Generative Models in Decision Making: A Survey

Xinyu Shao, Jianping Zhang, Haozhi Wang, Leo Maxime Brunswic, Kaiwen Zhou, Jiqian Dong, Kaiyang Guo, Zhitang Chen, Jun Wang, Jianye Hao, Xiu Li, Yinchuan Li

A function-centric taxonomy organizes generative decision-making methods as Controllers, Modelers, Optimizers, and Evaluators within the Control-as-Inference framework.

Overview of the RASR range-aware scale recovery pipeline

ACM MM 2026 Workshop UAVM · Accepted

RASR: Range-Aware Scale Recovery for Metric UAV Navigation

Hongtao Liang, Xinyu Shao, Chenxu Wang, Yiyao Wan, Jiahuan Ji, Fangwei Ye, Fuhui Zhou, Qihui Wu

RASR recovers metric distance and heading from frozen pairwise geometry using global calibration and range-aware residual correction for GNSS-denied UAV navigation.

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