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Tao Zhong 0003
dblp:24/6538-3
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5ranked-venue papers
3as first author
5since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0009-4878-4792ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 5 · 3 first-author · 5 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 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
4 papers |
Robot manipulation · 54% Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 34% Generative modeling · 5% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Geometric modeling and processing · 100% |
Topics — the 9 heaviest of 9, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Robot manipulation › grasping
multifingered grasping |
1.5 | 2 | 2025 | GAGrasp: Geometric Algebra Diffusion for Dexterous Grasping · ICRA 2025 Fast-Grasp'D: Dexterous Multi-finger Grasp Generation Through Differentiable Simulation · ICRA 2023 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
test-time adaptation |
1.3 | 2 | 2024 | Adapting to Distribution Shift by Visual Domain Prompt Generation · ICLR 2024 Meta-DMoE: Adapting to Domain Shift by Meta-Distillation from Mixture-of-Experts · NeurIPS 2022 |
Robotics › Robot manipulation › grasping › grasp planning
grasp synthesis |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | GAGrasp: Geometric Algebra Diffusion for Dexterous Grasping · ICRA 2025 |
Robotics › Robot manipulation
grasping |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Fast-Grasp'D: Dexterous Multi-finger Grasp Generation Through Differentiable Simulation · ICRA 2023 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
domain shift |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Meta-DMoE: Adapting to Domain Shift by Meta-Distillation from Mixture-of-Experts · NeurIPS 2022 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | GAGrasp: Geometric Algebra Diffusion for Dexterous Grasping · ICRA 2025 |
Geometric modeling and processing
geometric algebra |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | GAGrasp: Geometric Algebra Diffusion for Dexterous Grasping · ICRA 2025 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
foundation model |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Adapting to Distribution Shift by Visual Domain Prompt Generation · ICLR 2024 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › model compression
knowledge distillation |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | Meta-DMoE: Adapting to Domain Shift by Meta-Distillation from Mixture-of-Experts · NeurIPS 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
geometric algebra · 1.7diffusion model · 1.7differentiable physics refinement · 1.7SE(3) equivariance · 1.7meta-learning · 1.3knowledge bank · 0.8domain-aware contrastive loss · 0.8gradient-based optimization · 0.7differentiable simulation · 0.7mixture of experts · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | GAGrasp: Geometric Algebra Diffusion for Dexterous GraspingabstractWe propose GAGrasp, a novel framework for dexterous grasp generation that leverages geometric algebra representations to enforce equivariance to$S E(3)$transformations. By encoding the$S E(3)$symmetry constraint directly into the architecture, our method improves data and parameter efficiency while enabling robust grasp generation across diverse object poses. Additionally, we incorporate a differentiable physics-informed refinement layer, which ensures that generated grasps are physically plausible and stable. Extensive experiments demonstrate the model's superior performance in generalization, stability, and adaptability compared to existing methods. Additional details at gagrasp.github.io Tao Zhong 0003, Christine Allen-Blanchette |
ICRA | 1 |
| 2025 | Grasp2Grasp: Vision-Based Dexterous Grasp Translation via Schrödinger BridgesabstractWe propose a new approach to vision-based dexterous grasp translation, which aims to transfer grasp intent across robotic hands with differing morphologies. Given a visual observation of a source hand grasping an object, our goal is to synthesize a functionally equivalent grasp for a target hand without requiring paired demonstrations or hand-specific simulations. We frame this problem as a stochastic transport between grasp distributions using the Schrödinger Bridge formalism. Our method learns to map between source and target latent grasp spaces via score and flow matching, conditioned on visual observations. To guide this translation, we introduce physics-informed cost functions that encode alignment in base pose, contact maps, wrench space, and manipulability. Experiments across diverse hand-object pairs demonstrate that our approach generates stable, physically grounded grasps with strong generalization. This work enables semantic grasp transfer for heterogeneous manipulators and bridges vision-based grasping with probabilistic generative modeling. Additional details at https://grasp2grasp.github.io/. Tao Zhong 0003, Jonah Buchanan, Christine Allen-Blanchette |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2024 | Adapting to Distribution Shift by Visual Domain Prompt GenerationabstractIn this paper, we aim to adapt a model at test-time using a few unlabeled data to address distribution shifts.
To tackle the challenges of extracting domain knowledge from a limited amount of data, it is crucial to utilize correlated information from pre-trained backbones and source domains. Previous studies fail to utilize recent foundation models with strong out-of-distribution generalization. Additionally, domain-centric designs are not flavored in their works. Furthermore, they employ the process of modelling source domains and the process of learning to adapt independently into disjoint training stages. In this work, we propose an approach on top of the pre-computed features of the foundation model. Specifically, we build a knowledge bank to learn the transferable knowledge from source domains. Conditioned on few-shot target data, we introduce a domain prompt generator to condense the knowledge bank into a domain-specific prompt. The domain prompt then directs the visual features towards a particular domain via a guidance module. Moreover, we propose a domain-aware contrastive loss and employ meta-learning to facilitate domain knowledge extraction. Extensive experiments are conducted to validate the domain knowledge extraction. The proposed method outperforms previous work on 5 large-scale benchmarks including WILDS and DomainNet. Zhixiang Chi, Li Gu, Tao Zhong 0003, Huan Liu 0014, Yuanhao Yu, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Yang Wang 0003 |
ICLR | 3 |
| 2023 | Fast-Grasp'D: Dexterous Multi-finger Grasp Generation Through Differentiable SimulationabstractMulti-finger grasping relies on high quality training data, which is hard to obtain: human data is hard to transfer and synthetic data relies on simplifying assumptions that reduce grasp quality. By making grasp simulation differentiable, and contact dynamics amenable to gradient-based optimization, we accelerate the search for high-quality grasps with fewer limiting assumptions. We present Grasp'D-1M: a large-scale dataset for multi-finger robotic grasping, synthesized with Fast-Grasp'D, a novel differentiable grasping simulator. Grasp'D-1M contains one million training examples for three robotic hands (three, four and five-fingered), each with multimodal visual inputs (RGB+depth+segmentation, available in mono and stereo). Grasp synthesis with Fast-Grasp'D is 10x faster than GraspIt! [1] and 20x faster than the prior Grasp'D differentiable simulator [2]. Generated grasps are more stable and contact-rich than GraspIt! grasps, regardless of the distance threshold used for contact generation. We validate the usefulness of our dataset by retraining an existing vision-based grasping pipeline [3] on Grasp'D-1M, and showing a dramatic increase in model performance, predicting grasps with 30% more contact, a 33% higher epsilon metric, and 35% lower simulated displacement. Additional details at fast-graspd.github.io. Dylan Turpin, Tao Zhong 0003, Shutong Zhang, Guanglei Zhu, Eric Heiden, Miles Macklin, Stavros Tsogkas, Sven J. Dickinson, Animesh Garg |
ICRA | 2 |
| 2022 | Meta-DMoE: Adapting to Domain Shift by Meta-Distillation from Mixture-of-ExpertsabstractIn this paper, we tackle the problem of domain shift. Most existing methods perform training on multiple source domains using a single model, and the same trained model is used on all unseen target domains. Such solutions are sub-optimal as each target domain exhibits its own specialty, which is not adapted. Furthermore, expecting single-model training to learn extensive knowledge from multiple source domains is counterintuitive. The model is more biased toward learning only domain-invariant features and may result in negative knowledge transfer. In this work, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised test-time adaptation, which is formulated as a knowledge distillation process to address domain shift. Specifically, we incorporate Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) as teachers, where each expert is separately trained on different source domains to maximize their specialty. Given a test-time target domain, a small set of unlabeled data is sampled to query the knowledge from MoE. As the source domains are correlated to the target domains, a transformer-based aggregator then combines the domain knowledge by examining the interconnection among them. The output is treated as a supervision signal to adapt a student prediction network toward the target domain. We further employ meta-learning to enforce the aggregator to distill positive knowledge and the student network to achieve fast adaptation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art and validates the effectiveness of each proposed component. Our code is available at https://github.com/n3il666/Meta-DMoE. Tao Zhong 0003, Zhixiang Chi, Li Gu, Yang Wang 0003, Yuanhao Yu, Jin Tang 0005 |
NeurIPS | 1 |