Publications — Yufei Ding

SoFar: Language-Grounded Orientation Bridges Spatial Reasoning and Object Manipulation

NeurIPS 2025

Paper Project Page Code Huggingface

We introduce semantic orientation and a generalizable model for language-grounded spatial reasoning and robot manipulation.

first author(s) algorithm spotlight benchmark

Open6DOR: Benchmarking Open-instruction 6-DoF Object Rearrangement and A VLM-based Approach

Yufei Ding*, Haoran Geng*, Chaoyi Xu, Xiaomeng Fang, Jiazhao Zhang, Songlin Wei, Qiyu Dai, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang†

IROS 2024 · CVPR 2024 @ VLADA · ICRA 2024 @ 3D Manipulation

Paper Project Page Code Video Bibtex

Open6DOR provides a comprehensive benchmark for open-instruction 6-DoF rearrangement and a zero-shot VLM approach effective in sim and real.

first author(s) benchmark algorithm oral

RoboVerse: Towards a Unified Platform, Dataset and Benchmark for Scalable and Generalizable Robot Learning

RoboVerse Team

RSS 2025

Paper Project Code

A unified simulator-dataset-benchmark framework with MetaSim abstraction for interoperability and scalable evaluation.

dataset survey

DexGraspNet 2.0: Learning Generative Dexterous Grasping in Large-scale Synthetic Cluttered Scenes

Jialiang Zhang*, Haoran Liu*, Danshi Li*, Xinqiang Yu*, Haoran Geng, Yufei Ding, Jiayi Chen, He Wang†

CoRL 2024

Project

Large-scale synthetic clutter scenes and a generative framework for real-world dexterous grasping.

algorithm benchmark

Simulately: Handy information and resources for physics simulators for robot learning research.

Haoran Geng, Yuyang Li, Yuzhe Qin, Ran Gong, Wensi Ai, Yuanpei Chen, Puhao Li, Junfeng Ni, Zhou Xian, Songlin Wei, Yang You, Yufei Ding, Jialiang Zhang

Open-source Project · Selected into CMU 16-831t

Website Github

Curated simulator resources for robot learning research.

survey