Hao Chen (陈浩)

My research aims to develop robotic foundation models for intelligent robots capable of understanding, reasoning, and acting in the physical world. My current research interests include Vision-Language-Action Models, World-Action Models, and Multimodal Learning.

Feel free to reach out - I’m always open to discussions and potential collaborations! 😄

Selected Publications

1. LaST-HD: Learning Latent Physical Reasoning from Human Data for Robot Manipulation

Jiaming Liu*†, Yinxi Wang*, Chenyang Gu*, Siyuan Qian*, Xiangju Mi*, Hao Chen†, Jiawei Chen, Qingpo Wuwu, Xiaoqi Li, Nuowei Han, Yiming Zhang, Xuheng Zhang, Yang Yue, Yeqing Yang, Lei Wang, Peng Jia, Hao Tang, Shanghang Zhang

ArXiv 2026

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2. Lift3D-VLA: Lifting VLA Models to 3D Geometry and Dynamics-Aware Manipulation

Jiaming Liu*, Qingpo Wuwu*, Nuowei Han*, Hao Chen*, Zhuoyang Liu, Fan Fei, Yueru Jia, Chenyang Gu, Yandong Guo, Boxin Shi, Shanghang Zhang

ArXiv 2026

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3. LaST-R1: Reinforcing Robotic Manipulation via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning

Hao Chen*, Jiaming Liu*†, Zhonghao Yan*, Nuowei Han*, Renrui Zhang†, Chenyang Gu, Jialin Gao, Ziyu Guo, Siyuan Qian, Yinxi Wang, Peng Jia, Shanghang Zhang, Pheng-Ann Heng

NeurIPS 2026

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4. Look Before Acting: Enhancing Vision Foundation Representations for Vision-Language-Action Models

Yulin Luo*, Hao Chen*†, Zhuangzhe Wu*, Bowen Sui*, Jiaming Liu*†, Chenyang Gu, Zhuoyang Liu, Qiuxuan Feng, Jiale Yu, Shuo Gu, Peng Jia, Pheng-Ann Heng, Shanghang Zhang

ACMMM 2026

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5. LaST0: Latent Spatio-Temporal Chain-of-Thought for Robotic Vision-Language-Action Model

Zhuoyang Liu*, Jiaming Liu*†, Hao Chen*, Ziyu Guo, Chengkai Hou, Chenyang Gu, Jiale Yu, Xiangju Mi, Renrui Zhang, Zhengping Che, Jian Tang, Pheng-Ann Heng, Shanghang Zhang

ICML 2026 (Spotlight)

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6. ManualVLA: A Unified VLA Model for Chain-of-Thought Manual Generation and Robotic Manipulation

Chenyang Gu*, Jiaming Liu*†, Hao Chen*†, Runzhong Huang*, Qingpo Wuwu, Zhuoyang Liu, Xiaoqi Li, Ying Li, Renrui Zhang, Peng Jia, Pheng-Ann Heng, Shanghang Zhang

CVPR 2026

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7. HybridVLA: Collaborative Diffusion and Autoregression in a Unified Vision-Language-Action Model

Jiaming Liu*, Hao Chen*, Pengju An, Zhuoyang Liu, Renrui Zhang, Chenyang Gu, Xiaoqi Li, Ziyu Guo, Sixiang Chen, Mengzhen Liu, Chengkai Hou, Mengdi Zhao, KC Zhou, Pheng-Ann Heng, Shanghang Zhang

ICLR 2026

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8. Fast-in-Slow: A Dual-System Foundation Model Unifying Fast Manipulation within Slow Reasoning

Hao Chen*, Jiaming Liu*, Chenyang Gu*, Zhuoyang Liu*, Renrui Zhang, Xiaoqi Li, Xiao He, Yandong Guo, Chi-Wing Fu, Shanghang Zhang, Pheng-Ann Heng

NeurIPS 2025

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9. EchoTraffic: Enhancing Traffic Anomaly Understanding with Audio-Visual Insights

Zhenghao Xing*, Hao Chen*, Binzhu Xie, Jiaqi Xu, Ziyu Guo, Xuemiao Xu, Jianye Hao, Chi-Wing Fu, Xiaowei Hu, Pheng-Ann Heng

CVPR 2025

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10. SciVerse: Unveiling the Knowledge Comprehension and Visual Reasoning of LMMs on Multi-modal Scientific Problems

Ziyu Guo*, Ray Zhang*, Hao Chen*, Jialin* Gao*, Dongzhi Jiang, Jiaze Wang, Pheng-Ann Heng

ACL 2025

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11. SignVTCL: Multi-Modal Continuous Sign Language Recognition Enhanced by Visual-Textual Contrastive Learning

Hao Chen*, Jiaze Wang*, Ziyu Guo, Jinpeng Li, Donghao Zhou, Bian Wu, Chenyong Guan, Guangyong Chen, Pheng-Ann Heng

BMVC 2024

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12. Traj-mae: Masked autoencoders for trajectory prediction

Hao Chen*, Jiaze Wang*, Kun Shao, Furui Liu, Jianye Hao, Chenyong Guan, Guangyong Chen, Pheng-Ann Heng

ICCV 2023

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Hao Chen (陈浩)

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