Friedrich Yuan | The University of Hong Kong

About Me

I’m a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Agentic Intelligence Lab, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). I received my PhD degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU), fortunately supervised by Prof. Wenjun Zeng and Prof. Bo Li. In 2024, I was a visiting scholar at the Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, The University of Cambridge, fortunately advised by Prof. Fumiya Iida.

My research career is also complemented by research experiences at leading industrial research hubs, covering intelligent robotics and intelligent system research fields across LimX Dynamics (2025), Tencent Robotics X Lab (2022), and JD.com, Inc. (2019).

Research Interests

Reinforcement Learning (Sample efficiency, intrinsic motivation, etc.)
Embodied Intelligence (Humanoid robotics, VLA models, etc.)
Continual Learning (Anti-forgetting, plasticity, etc.)
Machine Learning Systems (AI Infra, agent-based systems, etc.)

News

[Jul, 2026] One paper accepted by IROS2026!
[Feb, 2026] Two papers accepted by CVPR2026!
[Jan, 2026] One paper accepted by IEEE RA-L!
[Dec, 2025] One paper accepted by IEEE TPAMI!
[July, 2025] One paper accepted by ICCV2025!
[Apr, 2025] RLeXplore is accepted by the Transactions on Machine Learning Research!
[Dec, 2024] RLLTE is going to be displayed in AAAI 2025. See you in Philadelphia!
[Jan, 2024] I’m going to visit the University of Cambridge from February!
[Apr, 2023] One paper accepted by the ICML 2023!

Selected Publications

CVPR

PvP: Data-Efficient Humanoid Robot Learning with Proprioceptive-Privileged Contrastive Representations

Mingqi Yuan, Tao Yu, Haolin Song, Bo Li, Xin Jin, Hua Chen, Wenjun Zeng

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.

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CVPR

Goal-Driven Reward by Video Diffusion Models for Reinforcement Learning

Qi Wang, Mian Wu, Yuyang Zhang, Mingqi Yuan, Wenyao Zhang, Haoxiang You, Yunbo Wang, Xin Jin, Xiaokang Yang, Wenjun Zeng

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.

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RA-L

Gait-Adaptive Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion with Real-Time Under-Base Terrain Reconstruction

Haolin Song, Hongbo Zhu, Tao Yu, Yan Liu, Mingqi Yuan, Wengang Zhou, Hua Chen, Houqiang Li

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026.

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TPAMI

A Survey of Behavior Foundation Model: Next-Generation Whole-Body Control System of Humanoid Robots

Mingqi Yuan, Tao Yu, Wenqi Ge, Xiuyong Yao, Huijiang Wang, Jiayu Chen, Bo Li, Wei Zhang, Wenjun Zeng, Hua Chen, Xin Jin

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025.

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ICCV

ULTHO: Ultra-Lightweight yet Efficient Hyperparameter Optimization in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Mingqi Yuan, Bo Li, Xin Jin, Wenjun Zeng

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.

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TMLR

RLeXplore: Accelerating Research in Intrinsically-Motivated Reinforcement Learning

Mingqi Yuan*, Roger Creus Castanyer*, Bo Li, Xin Jin, Wenjun Zeng, Glen Berseth

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025.

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ICML

Automatic Intrinsic Reward Shaping for Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Mingqi Yuan, Bo Li, Xin Jin, Wenjun Zeng

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023.

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Services

Student Mentoring

Xiaoquan Sun, Master student at HUST, 2026 - present
Yijun Hong, Undergraduate student at SUSTech, 2026 - present
Jiarun Zhu, Undergraduate student at SUSTech, 2026 - present
Qijun He, Undergraduate student at SUSTech, 2025 - present
Caihao Sun, PhD student at HKU, 2025
Yuxuan Li, Undergraduate student at ZJU, 2025

Reviewer

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)