Yao-Hui Li (李耀辉)

Ph.D. student, School of Computer Science and Technology, BIT

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), advised by Xin Li.

I received my master's degree from the College of Mathematics and Information Science at Hebei University, where I was advised by Feng Zhang. I was also a visiting scholar at the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, hosted by Wei Pang.

My research interests lie in deep reinforcement learning, robot learning, and embodied intelligence, with a particular focus on sample-efficient representation learning and model-based control. I am also interested in integrating vision-language-action (VLA) models with reinforcement learning to develop generalizable robotic policies that connect multimodal perception with decision-making and action.

Publications and preprints

Papers sorted by year. Representative papers are highlighted. * represents equal contributions.

GEAR: Bridging the Planner-Actor Gap via Gradient-Aligned Policy Extraction
Yao-Hui Li, Xin Li, Hasnaa Bennis, Meiju Li, Boya Zhang, Yingfang Yuan, Wei Pang
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
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SLOPE: Optimistic Potential Landscape Shaping for Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Yao-Hui Li*, Zeyu Wang*, Xin Li, Wei Pang, Yingfang Yuan, Zhengkun Chen, Boya Zhang, Riashat Islam, Alex Lamb, Yonggang Zhang
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
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Wavelet Predictive Representations for Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning
Min Wang, Xin Li, Ye He, Yao-Hui Li, Hasnaa Bennis, Riashat Islam, Mingzhong Wang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
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Learning Fused State Representations for Control from Multi-View Observations
Zeyu Wang*, Yao-Hui Li*, Xin Li, Hongyu Zang, Romain Laroche, Riashat Islam
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
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Revisiting Bisimulation Metric for Robust Representations in Reinforcement Learning
Leiji Zhang, Zeyu Wang, Xin Li, Yao-Hui Li
arXiv preprint, 2025
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Regularizing Model Predictive Control for pixel-based long-horizon tasks
Yao-Hui Li, Feng Zhang, Qiang Hua, Chun-Ru Dong
Applied Soft Computing, 2025
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Integrating human learning and reinforcement learning: A novel approach to agent training
Yao-Hui Li, Feng Zhang, Qiang Hua, Xiao-Hua Zhou
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024
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