VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Qiuan Yang
dblp:441/9130
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 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 |
Motion planning and robot control · 67% Robot manipulation · 33% | |
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
GPUs and heterogeneous computing · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control
learning control |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Learning to Control Free-Form Soft Swimmers · NeurIPS 2025 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
robot learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Learning to Control Free-Form Soft Swimmers · NeurIPS 2025 |
Robotics › Robot manipulation › soft robotics
soft robot control |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Learning to Control Free-Form Soft Swimmers · NeurIPS 2025 |
GPUs and heterogeneous computing › GPU-accelerated scientific computing
GPU-accelerated simulation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Learning to Control Free-Form Soft Swimmers · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reduced-mode control space · 1.7fluid-structure interaction simulation · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Learning to Control Free-Form Soft SwimmersabstractSwimming in nature achieves remarkable performance through diverse morphological adaptations and intricate solid-fluid interaction, yet exploring this capability in artificial soft swimmers remains challenging due to the high-dimensional control complexity and the computational cost of resolving hydrodynamic details. Traditional approaches often rely on morphology-dependent heuristics and simplified fluid models, which constrain exploration and preclude advanced strategies like vortex exploitation. To address this, we propose an automated framework that combines a unified, reduced-mode control space with a high-fidelity GPU-accelerated simulator. Our control space naturally captures deformation patterns for diverse morphologies, minimizing manual design, while our simulator efficiently resolves the crucial fluid-structure interactions required for learning. We evaluate our method on a wide range of morphologies, from bio-inspired to unconventional. From this general framework, high-performance swimming patterns emerge that qualitatively reproduce canonical gaits observed in nature without requiring domain-specific priors, where state-of-the-art baselines often fail, particularly on complex topologies like a torus. Our work lays a foundation for future opportunities in automated co-design of soft robots in complex hydrodynamic environments. The code is available at https://github.com/changyu-hu/FreeFlow. Yanke Qu, Qiuan Yang, Xiaoyu Xiong, Kui Wu 0003, Tao Du 0001 |
NeurIPS | 3 |