Weiduo Yuan

I'm a 2nd-year master student at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Before that, I received my bachelor degree at ShanghaiTech University majoring in computer science and technology.

I will graduate from the USC in December 2026 and am currently seeking PhD positions for Spring/Fall 2027.

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Research Interests

My research interests generally lie in the following areas:

  • Latent action pretraining
  • Vision-Language-Action models
  • World action models

I'm open to collaboration or discussion about these topics. Feel free to reach out to me via email!

Research Experiences

University of Southern California [Aug 2025 - Present]: Research Internship. Advisior: Professor Yue Wang.

University of California, Riverside [Jan 2025 - Aug 2025]: Research Internship. Advisior: Professor Hang Qiu.

News

Aug 2025: I've started my research internship at Physical Superintelligence(PSI) lab advised by Yue Wang!

Aug 2025: Our paper BEVCalib has been accepted by CoRL 2025!

Jan 2025: I've started my research internship at CISL in UC Riverside advised by Hang Qiu!

Jan 2025: I joined USC in 25 Spring as a CS master student!

Jun 2024: I got my banchelor degree at ShanghaiTech University!

May 2023: I finished one-semester visit in UC Berkeley!

Publications (* means equal contribution)

DreamPlan DreamPlan: Efficient Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Planners via Video World Models
Emily Yue-Ting Jia*, Weiduo Yuan*, Tianheng Shi, Vitor Guizilini, Jiageng Mao, Yue Wang,
Arxiv Preprint
project page / arxiv / paper

PSI-Zero Ψ₀: An Open Foundation Model Towards Universal Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Psi-Zero team, Weiduo Yuan
Arxiv Preprint
project page / code / arxiv / paper

ICLR ICLR: In-Context Imitation Learning with Visual Reasoning
Toan Nguyen, Weiduo Yuan, Songlin Wei, Hui Li, Daniel Seita, Yue Wang,
Arxiv Preprint
project page / arxiv / paper

LRM Large Reward Models: Generalizable Online Robot Reward Generation with Vision-Language Models
Yanru Wu, Weiduo Yuan, Ang Qi, Vitor Guizilini, Jiageng Mao, Yue Wang,
Arxiv Preprint
project page / arxiv / paper

The Earth Simulator The Earth Simulator: Street View World Modeling with 3D Gaussian Memory and Camera Control
Peilin Cai, Weiduo Yuan, Sicheng He, Cho-Ying Wu, David Paz, Hengyuan Zhang, Yuliang Guo, Xinyu Huang, Liu Ren, Jiageng Mao, Yue Wang,
In submission
BEVCalib BEVCALIB: LiDAR-Camera Calibration via Geometry-Guided Bird's-Eye View Representations
Weiduo Yuan*, Jerry Li*, Justin Yue, Divyank Shah, Konstantinos Karydis, Hang Qiu
CoRL 2025
project page / code / arxiv / paper

Awards

Nov 2021: I got silver medal in the 46th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia Jinan Regional Contest!

Apr 2021: I got gold medal(top 3%) in the 45th International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia Kunming Regional Contest!