VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Ruofeng Mei
dblp:424/7691
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 50% Motion planning and robot control · 25% Robot manipulation · 25% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling › flow matching
equivariant flow matching |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | EfficientFlow: Efficient Equivariant Flow Policy Learning for Embodied AI · AAAI 2026 |
Robotics › Robot manipulation
flow-based policy |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | EfficientFlow: Efficient Equivariant Flow Policy Learning for Embodied AI · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
flow matching |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | EfficientFlow: Efficient Equivariant Flow Policy Learning for Embodied AI · AAAI 2026 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot learning › visuomotor learning
visuomotor policy learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | EfficientFlow: Efficient Equivariant Flow Policy Learning for Embodied AI · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
flow matching · 1.0equivariance · 1.0acceleration regularization · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | EfficientFlow: Efficient Equivariant Flow Policy Learning for Embodied AIabstractGenerative modeling has recently shown remarkable promise for visuomotor policy learning, enabling flexible and expressive control across diverse embodied AI tasks. However, existing generative policies often struggle with data inefficiency, requiring large-scale demonstrations, and sampling inefficiency, incurring slow action generation during inference. We introduce EfficientFlow, a unified framework for efficient embodied AI with flow-based policy learning. To enhance data efficiency, we bring equivariance into flow matching. We theoretically prove that when using an isotropic Gaussian prior and an equivariant velocity prediction network, the resulting action distribution remains equivariant, leading to improved generalization and substantially reduced data demands. To accelerate sampling, we propose a novel acceleration regularization strategy. As direct computation of acceleration is intractable for marginal flow trajectories, we derive a novel surrogate loss that enables stable and scalable training using only conditional trajectories. Across a wide range of robotic manipulation benchmarks, the proposed algorithm achieves competitive or superior performance under limited data while offering dramatically faster inference. These results highlight EfficientFlow as a powerful and efficient paradigm for high-performance embodied AI. Jianlei Chang, Ruofeng Mei |
AAAI | 2 |