Research

You can find my publications on my Google Scholar Profile

Overview

I am interested in efficient robot (or more broadly AI agents) learning by installing symbolic human knowledge into robots. Unlike the mainstream data-driven generalist approach, my work aims to develop adaptable, interpretable polices that are easy for the end users to customize.

Publications

a diagram of an directed graph representing a structured policy Sample-Efficient Behavior Cloning Using General Domain Knowledge
Feiyu Zhu, Jean Oh, Reid Simmons
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2025
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Proposed an approach to make use of general domain knowledge to enable sample-efficient behavior cloning. Demonstrated the effectiveness and robustness of our approach in continuous environments with discrete and continuous action spaces with very few demonstrations.

a diagram of a cognitive agent Cognitive Framework for Preference Adaptation in Human-AI Interaction
Feiyu Zhu
School of Computer Science Honors Undergraduate Thesis, 2024
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Formally defined a cognitive architecture. Showed how we can bootstrap its rules with a large language model and minimal human input. Collected a set of human preferences in the real world. Showed how the architecture we proposed can adapt to those preferences in one shot.

a diagram of a cognitive agent Bootstrapping Cognitive Agents with a Large Language Model
Feiyu Zhu, Reid Simmons
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
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🏆 Oral Presentation

Proposed an agent framework that combines LLMs with customized cognitive architecture. Demonstrated how it can learn to perform various kitchen tasks from bootstrapping. Show that, when applied to new environments, it requires significantly fewer tokens than querying LLM for actions.

a diagram of three pedestrain trajectories SQE: a Self Quality Evaluation Metric for Parameters Optimization in Multi-Object Tracking
Yanru Huang, Feiyu Zhu, Zheni Zeng, Xi Qiu, Yuan Shen, Jianan Wu,
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
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Showed that feature distance distributions can reflect trajectory hypotheses quality. Proposed a self quality evaluation metric SQE based on two-class Gaussian mixture model, which can primarily fulfill the self-evaluation desire. Tested the effectiveness of our method on various data sets and note its drawbacks.