Publications

Selected Publications

(* indicates co-first authors)

EmbodiedSmith: Scaling Embodied Data through Recursive Self-Improvement Flywheel in Simulation

Y. Qin, Y. Deng, M. Liang, W. Song, Z. Lin, Z. Jiang, J. Fu, Q. Sun, H. Lei, X. Gong, J. Chen, H. Zhao, S. Bai, P. Ding, P. Wang, H. Li

Preprint, 2026

[arXiv]

RoboMemArena paper overview

RoboMemArena: A Keyframe-Annotated Benchmark for Memory-Dependent Robotic Manipulation

H. Lei*, W. Song*, H. Zhang, J. Pei, J. Chen, H. Yan, H. Zhao, P. Ding, Z. Zhang, L. Huang, D. Wang, Y. Wang, H. Li

Preprint, 2026

[paper] [share] [project] [github]

DySta paper overview

Static-Dynamic Disentanglement for Efficient Multi-Frame Vision-Language-Action Models

W. Qiu*, H. Lei*, T. Huang, A. Feng, R. Ying

NeurIPS 2026, Poster

[paper] [github]

EnvTrap examples of environment-induced robotic execution failures

EnvTrap: Revealing the Environment-Only Attack Surface in Embodied AI via Consequence-Blind Action Execution

Zehao Liu, H. Lei, Xi Lin, Haoang Li, Yuliang Chen, Huarui Zhang, Yifan Wang

NeurIPS 2026, Poster
HCSG paper overview

HCSG: Human-Centric Semantic-Geometric Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation

H. Xu, T. Li, W. Chen, Y. Liu, J. Wu, H. Lei, Y. Lou, L. Wang, H. Wang, H. Li

Preprint, 2026

[paper] [project]

High-Accuracy Early Recognition of Upper-Limb Motions for Exoskeleton-Assisted Mirror Rehabilitation

H. Wang*, Y. Yao, H. Lei*, Y. Shi, S. Pei

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025

[paper] [code]

CEBench and LLaVA-VLA framework

Rethinking the Practicality of Vision-Language-Action Model: A Comprehensive Benchmark and An Improved Baseline

W. Song*, J. Chen*, X. Sun*, H. Lei, Y. Qin, W. Zhao, P. Ding, H. Zhao, T. Wang, P. Hou, Z. Zhong, H. Yan, D. Wang, J. Ma, H. Li

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026

[paper]

MonoAttack paper

MonoAttack: A Strong Attack Framework with Depth-Migration and Attribute-Tampering for Monocular 3D Object Detection

X. Zhang*, H. Lei*, D. Liu, X. Qu, X. Fang, R. Guan, K. Jin

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2025

[paper]

Bounding box backdoor paper

Manipulating the Bounding Box: Multimodal Controlled Backdoor Attacks on 3D Visual Grounding Models

X. Zhang*, H. Lei*, D. Liu, X. Qu, X. Fang, R. Guan, K. Jin

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2025

[paper]

Disentangled temporal activity localization paper

Exploring Disentangled Appearance-Motion Contexts for Temporal Activity Localization

H. Lei, X. Cai, D. Liu, X. Fang, X. Qu, J. Dong, J. Yu, K. Jin

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2025

[paper]