Yao Lu

Principal Researcher, Research, Physical Intelligence

Joined

February 2020

Names

Yao Lu (Preferred)

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@nvidia.com (Confirmed)

****@physicalintelligence.company

Personal Links

Google Scholar

DBLP

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

Research, Physical Intelligence (physicalintelligence.company)

2025 – Present

Principal Researcher

NV Research, NVIDIA (nvidia.com)

2023 – 2025

Researcher

Google DeepMind, Google (google.com)

2018 – 2023

PhD student

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)

2012 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Sujit Dey

2012 – 2016

Expertise

Machine Learning

2018 – Present

Cloud Gaming

2012 – 2016

Video compression

2011 – 2016

Publications

SparseVILA-R1: Decoupling Visual Sparsity for Efficient VLM Reasoning
Samir Khaki, Junxian Guo, Jiaming Tang, Shang Yang, Yukang Chen, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Yao Lu, Song Han, Zhijian Liu
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
EgoVLA: Learning Vision-Language-Action Models from Egocentric Human Videos
Ruihan Yang, Qinxi Yu, Yecheng Wu, Rui Yan, Borui li, An-Chieh Cheng, Xueyan Zou, Yunhao Fang, Xuxin Cheng, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Hongxu Yin, Sifei Liu, Song Han, Yao Lu, Xiaolong Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
OmniVinci: Enhancing Architecture and Data for Omni-Modal Understanding LLM
Hanrong Ye, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Arushi Goel, Wei Huang, Zhen Wan, Jinchuan Tian, An-Chieh Cheng, Ligeng Zhu, Yuanhang Su, Yuming Lou, Yong-Xiang Lin, Dong Yang, Sreyan Ghosh, Zhijian Liu, Yukang Chen, Ehsan Jahangiri, Ambrish Dantrey, Daguang Xu, Ehsan Hosseini-Asl, Seyed Danial Mohseni Taheri et al. (12 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
QeRL: Beyond Efficiency - Quantization-enhanced Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
Wei Huang, Yi Ge, Shuai Yang, Yicheng Xiao, Huizi Mao, Yujun Lin, Hanrong Ye, Sifei Liu, Ka Chun Cheung, Hongxu Yin, Yao Lu, Xiaojuan Qi, Song Han, Yukang Chen
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
LongLive: Real-time Interactive Long Video Generation
Shuai Yang, Wei Huang, Ruihang Chu, Yicheng Xiao, Yuyang Zhao, Xianbang Wang, Muyang Li, Enze Xie, Ying-Cong Chen, Yao Lu, Song Han, Yukang Chen
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
3D Aware Region Prompted Vision Language Model
An-Chieh Cheng, Yang Fu, Yukang Chen, Zhijian Liu, Xiaolong Li, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Song Han, Yao Lu, Jan Kautz, Pavlo Molchanov, Hongxu Yin, Xiaolong Wang, Sifei Liu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
StreamingVLM: Real-Time Understanding for Infinite Video Streams
Ruyi Xu, Guangxuan Xiao, Yukang Chen, Liuning He, Kelly Peng, Yao Lu, Song Han
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Locality-aware Parallel Decoding for Efficient Autoregressive Image Generation
Zhuoyang Zhang, Luke J. Huang, Chengyue Wu, Shang Yang, Kelly Peng, Yao Lu, Song Han
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Wolf: Dense Video Captioning with a World Summarization Framework
Boyi Li, Ligeng Zhu, Ran Tian, Shuhan Tan, Yuxiao Chen, Yao Lu, Yin Cui, Sushant Veer, Max Ehrlich, Jonah Philion, Xinshuo Weng, Fuzhao Xue, Linxi Fan, Yuke Zhu, Jan Kautz, Andrew Tao, Ming-Yu Liu, Sanja Fidler, Boris Ivanovic, Trevor Darrell et al. (3 additional authors not shown)
- CoRL 2025 Robot Data Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
WorldModelBench: Judging Video Generation Models As World Models
Dacheng Li, Yunhao Fang, Yukang Chen, Shuo Yang, Shiyi Cao, Justin Wong, Michael Luo, Xiaolong Wang, Hongxu Yin, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica, Song Han, Yao Lu
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone

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