Mengdi Xu
Assistant Professor
Works on machine learning for robotics, human-robot interaction, and AI safety.
Mengdi Xu's lab at Tsinghua works on manipulation & robot learning, human-robot interaction & assistive robots and trustworthy & safe ML. 18 papers since 2023, 10 at top venues, mostly ICLR and CoRL. 5 PhD students. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 56%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 0
- 1 papers2024 · T1 1
- 8 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICLR, CoRL, NeurIPS, AISTATS, NAACL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning11 papers
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots3 papers
- Trustworthy & safe ML0 papers
- interdisciplinary information0 papers
- iiis0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20267 papers
- CoRL (T1)Humanoid Badminton: Learning Dynamic Racket Skills from Limited Human Motion Data
- CoRL . RSS Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation (spotlight).Learning Visual-Tactile Dexterous Manipulation From Human Videos with Simulated Interaction
- ICLR (T1)MoMaGen: Generating Demonstrations under Soft and Hard Constraints for Multi-Step Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
- NeurIPS (T1)Rethinking Causal Action Tokenization with Condition Annealing in Flow Matching
- ICLR (T1)ROSETTA: Constructing Code-Based Reward from Unconstrained Language Preference
- ECCV . † equal advising.Scaling Verification Can Be More Effective than Scaling Policy Learning for Vision-Language-Action Alignment
- CVPR WorkshopWhat Do VLAs Actually Learn through In-Context Failure Conditioning?
20252 papers
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)Dynamics as Prompts: In-Context Learning for Sim-to-Real System Identifications
- MMRAgL workshop at ICCVMoDoMoDo: Multi-Domain Data Mixtures for Multimodal LLM Reinforcement Learning
20241 paper
- NAACL (T1)Embodied Executable Policy Learning with Language-based Scene Summarization
20238 papers
- UAI (T1)A trajectory is worth three sentences: multimodal transformer for offline reinforcement learning
- NeurIPS (T1)Adaptive Online Replanning with Diffusion Models
- CoRL (T1)Continual Vision-based Reinforcement Learning with Group Symmetries
- CoRL WorkshopCreative Robot Tool Use with Large Language Models
- AISTATS (T1)Group Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchical Latent Variables
- ICLR (T1)Hyper-Decision Transformer for Efficient Online Policy Adaptation
- The Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)Transfer Knowledge from Natural Language to Electrocardiography: Can We Detect Cardiovascular Disease Through Language Models?
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)What Went Wrong? Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap via Differentiable Causal Discovery
Where alumni went
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Apply to TsinghuaFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (international applicants)
- Round
- Main
- Opens
- GRE
- See program page
- English
- Per school catalog
- Fee
- RMB 800
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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