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Yi Xu

Midea Group (China) · United States

Unclaimed · AI-structured profileOpenAlex

Researcher at Midea Group applying vision-language-action and world action models to real-robot manipulation

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h-index · OpenAlex

Bibliometric figures come from OpenAlex (2026-10-16) and cover the author's entire public record, not just the papers listed here. Reproducibility signal comes from Evolve's own reviews.

Research profile

Output: insufficient dataOutputImpact: insufficient dataImpactFocus: 0/100FocusCollaboration: 58/100CollaborationActivity: 64/100ActivityReproducibility: 32/100Reproducibility

Output—

Not yet scored: total publication volume and output trajectory cannot be computed from this snapshot, which indexes only 8 works, all in 2026, and lacks a multi-year publication history. This axis would measure cumulative and per-year research output.

Impact—

Not yet scored: citation-based impact is unavailable — the snapshot records h-index 0 and i10-index 0 with no citation counts, expected for 2026-dated work. This axis would measure citations, h-index, and influence on subsequent research.

Focus0/100

Focus scores 0 because output is spread evenly rather than concentrated: the field distribution splits into three equal thirds — robotics/robot manipulation/embodied AI, robot learning/vision-language-action models, and multimodal machine learning/educational technology (0.33 each). Topic counts reinforce this, with reinforcement learning in robotics and robot manipulation and learning at 6 each, while AI-based planning and multimodal applications sit at 3 each, indicating parallel research threads rather than one core line.

Collaboration58/100

Collaboration scores 58, a moderate level. The OpenAlex window records 17 distinct coauthors, and the frequent-coauthor list shows a stable core: Taiyi Su, Zitai Huang, Jian Zhu, and Tianbin Liu recur across papers, joined by Jianjun Zhang, Chong Ma, Weiyi Lu, and Hanli Wang. Across the three reviewed papers Yi Xu holds first, middle, and last authorship but no corresponding-author role, consistent with team-based industrial research.

Activity64/100

Activity scores 64, driven by a concentrated burst of output: recent3yWorks is 8, and the counts-by-year data places all 8 works in 2026, with no indexed output in earlier years. All three Evolve-reviewed papers are 2026 arXiv preprints, corroborating a recently launched or recently indexed research program. The absence of earlier records means the score reflects current momentum rather than a sustained multi-year track record.

Reproducibility32/100

Reproducibility scores 32, computed across 3 reviewed papers. Readiness is low for both robot-learning papers — JEPA-WAM's review notes no code release, no significance tests, and no task-agnostic control, while MaskHarness-WAM lacks component ablations — and medium for KnowVis, whose LLM-judge evaluation and 10-participant study are offset by judge circularity and weak statistics. The pattern indicates real-robot results reported without the open artifacts needed for independent replication.

Research summary

Yi Xu is a researcher associated with Midea Group whose public bibliometric profile, name-resolved from OpenAlex, centers on robot learning and vision-language-action models. The profile is early-stage and concentrated in 2026: OpenAlex attributes 8 works to the last three years, all indexed in 2026, with an h-index of 0 recorded so far. Topic modeling assigns the heaviest weights to reinforcement learning in robotics and robot manipulation and learning (6 publications each), followed by AI-based problem solving and planning and multimodal machine learning applications (3 each). Evolve has reviewed three 2026 arXiv preprints involving this author: JEPA-WAM with a last authorship position, MaskHarness-WAM with a middle position, and KnowVis, a first-authored study on knowledge-centric visual summarization of video lectures. The work spans two threads — real-robot manipulation built on world action models, and multimodal learning applied to educational technology — mirrored in an even three-way field distribution across robotics/embodied AI, VLA models, and multimodal ML. Collaboration is moderate (score 58) across 17 distinct coauthors, activity scores 64, and reproducibility readiness is currently low, with a mean of 32 across the three reviewed papers.

Collaboration pattern

Moderate collaboration intensity (score 58) built around a compact industrial team. The OpenAlex window records 17 distinct coauthors, and the frequent-coauthor list shows a stable core: Taiyi Su, Zitai Huang, Jian Zhu, and Tianbin Liu recur across papers, joined by Jianjun Zhang, Chong Ma, Weiyi Lu, and Hanli Wang. Across the three reviewed papers Yi Xu holds first, middle, and last authorship but no corresponding-author role, consistent with team-based research inside Midea Group's robot-learning effort.

Research keywords

World action modelsVision-language-action modelsRobot manipulationReinforcement learning in roboticsLong-horizon manipulationInstance groundingVisual promptingV-JEPA representationsText-to-image augmentationMultimodal machine learningVideo summarizationLLM-as-a-judge

Highlights

Timeline

  1. 2026First-authored KnowVis preprint on knowledge-centric visual summarization of video lectures appears on arXiv.
  2. 2026Co-authors MaskHarness-WAM, adding VLM-gated instance grounding for long-horizon manipulation of identical objects.
  3. 2026Last-authored JEPA-WAM preprint connects generated visual instructions to world action models via JEPA latent representations.
  4. 2026OpenAlex indexes 8 works for the year, spanning robot manipulation, vision-language-action models, and multimodal learning.

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  • Common name: this profile is name-resolved from public OpenAlex bibliographic data; no ORCID is available to confirm identity.
  • Bibliometrics come from OpenAlex only; citation-impact data is absent, with h-index and i10-index both recorded as 0.
  • Qualitative assessments rest on three Evolve-reviewed arXiv preprints (all 2026, not yet peer-reviewed).
  • Reproducibility score reflects Evolve reviews of 3 papers; reviewers noted missing code, significance tests, and ablations.
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