Selected Publications

A full list of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar.


PhyCritic: Multimodal Critic Models for Physical AI

Tianyi Xiong, Shihao Wang, Guilin Liu, Yi Dong, Ming Li, Heng Huang, Jan Kautz, Zhiding Yu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
[paper] / [project page]

GR00T N1.6: An Improved Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots

GR00T Team, NVIDIA
Technical Report, 2025
[project] / [model card]

Multi-Crit: Benchmarking Multimodal Judges on Pluralistic Criteria-Following

Tianyi Xiong*, Yi Ge*, Ming Li, Zuolong Zhang, Pranav Kulkarni, Kaishen Wang, Qi He, Zeying Zhu, Chenxi Liu, Ruibo Chen, Tong Zheng, Yanshuo Chen, Xiyao Wang, Renrui Zhang, Wenhu Chen, Heng Huang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
[paper] / [project page] / [code]

LLaVA-Critic-R1: Your Critic Model is Secretly a Strong Policy Model

Xiyao Wang, Chunyuan Li, Jianwei Yang, Kai Zhang, Bo Liu, Tianyi Xiong, Furong Huang
arxiv preprint, 2025
[paper]

Modality-Balancing Preference Optimization of Large Multimodal Models by Adversarial Negative Mining

Chenxi Liu, Tianyi Xiong, Yanshuo Chen, Ruibo Chen, Yihan Wu, Junfeng Guo, Tianyi Zhou, Heng Huang
arxiv preprint, 2025 [paper]

LLaVA-Critic: Learning to Evaluate Multimodal Models

Tianyi Xiong, Xiyao Wang, Dong Guo, Qinghao Ye, Haoqi Fan, Quanquan Gu, Heng Huang, Chunyuan Li
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
[paper] / [project page] / [huggingface]

Event3DGS: Event-Based 3D Gaussian Splatting for High-Speed Robot Egomotion

Tianyi Xiong*, Jiayi Wu*, Botao He, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Heng Huang, Christopher A. Metzler
Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024
[paper] / [project page]

MasQCLIP for Open-Vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation

Xin Xu*, Tianyi Xiong*, Zheng Ding, Zhuowen Tu
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
[paper] / [project page]