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Mingyu Ding

@dingmyu

Assistant Professor @UNC @unccs | IDEAL@UNC | Dexterous/Loco-Manipulation | #robotics, #embodiedAI, #3Dvision, #foundationmodels.
dingmyu.github.io Joined August 2024
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Mingyu Ding @dingmyu
Evaluated across four benchmarks: LIBERO, RoboTwin, RoboCasa, and RoboDojo.

📖 Blog: tianqi-zh.github.io/BenchMend/
🎥 Rollouts: huggingface.co/spaces/benchme…
tianqi-zh.github.io Agent-Guided Instruction Repair for Robotics Benchmarks Repair the instruction layer. Preserve the demonstrations. A human-proxy policy helps debug LIBERO and RoboTwin.
Tianqi Zhang Verified account @AlanZhang0928 Sep 25
A robot can follow a reasonable interpretation of an instruction and still fail the benchmark.

Meet BenchMend: we use GPT-6-Astra to uncover instruction–verifier gaps in robotics benchmarks, then repair the wording while preserving success checkers and recorded demonstrations.

Key takeaways:

📝 Instructions matter. Small edits can substantially improve alignment between task language and benchmark verdicts.
🤖 Even strong agents have limits when performing zero-shot robot control. Tasks requiring precise contact, placement, and coordination remain challenging for agents.
🛠️ An imperfect policy can still help debug benchmarks. Agents that diagnose gaps, propose fixes, and test them could enable self-improving benchmarks and potentially support recursive self-improvement (RSI).

Read the blog: tianqi-zh.github.io/BenchMend/
Watch the rollouts: huggingface.co/spaces/benchme…
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Mingyu Ding @dingmyu
Excited to share @AlanZhang0928's BenchMend!

Robots may fail a benchmark not because of wrong actions, but a misaligned instruction-verifier. GPT6 Astra can repair this with minimal change, pointing toward benchmarks that uncover their failure modes and iteratively self-improve.
Tianqi Zhang Verified account @AlanZhang0928 Sep 25
A robot can follow a reasonable interpretation of an instruction and still fail the benchmark.

Meet BenchMend: we use GPT-6-Astra to uncover instruction–verifier gaps in robotics benchmarks, then repair the wording while preserving success checkers and recorded demonstrations.

Key takeaways:

📝 Instructions matter. Small edits can substantially improve alignment between task language and benchmark verdicts.
🤖 Even strong agents have limits when performing zero-shot robot control. Tasks requiring precise contact, placement, and coordination remain challenging for agents.
🛠️ An imperfect policy can still help debug benchmarks. Agents that diagnose gaps, propose fixes, and test them could enable self-improving benchmarks and potentially support recursive self-improvement (RSI).

Read the blog: tianqi-zh.github.io/BenchMend/
Watch the rollouts: huggingface.co/spaces/benchme…
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Mingyu Ding @dingmyu
Thanks Haochen! It was a pleasure collaborating with you as well. Your insights were incredibly valuable and look forward to pushing this direction even further together.
Haochen Shi Verified account @HaochenShi74 Jul 30
This is exactly the kind of "transformer" I imagine. Creatively extending the otherwise limited workspace of a robot arm in a way that just makes sense. A perfect example of a brilliant idea + amazing execution. Enjoyed collaborating with the team a lot!
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