Welcome to my academic homepage. I am a first-year graduate student in Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) advised by Prof. Song-Chun Zhu. I also closely collaborate with Prof. Ying Nian Wu. Before coming to UCLA, I finished my undergraduate study in Computer Science with honors at Tsinghua University.

My research interests primarily focus on endowing robots and other agent-based systems with advanced learning and reasoning architectures, so as to understand the complex physical and psychological world dynamics. Some of my research keywords can be found below:

  • Cognitive Modeling: Physical and mental reasoning, Human-AI/Robot collaboration
  • Learning Behaviours: Reinforcement learning, Imitation learning, Preference-based learning
  • Multi-Modal Sensing: Visual sensing, Tactile sensing, Language grounding
Email: xm [at] cs [dot] ucla [dot] edu / Google Scholar

News

Selected Publications

Preprint

Xiaojian Ma*, Mingxuan Jing*, Fuchun Sun and Huaping Liu
Learning and Inferring Movement from Demonstrations with Deep Generative Model
arXiv preprint / Paper / Project Page / arXiv / Code 
also in Generative Modeling and Model-Based Reasoning for Robotics and AI Workshop @ ICML 2019

Conference

Mark Edmonds, Xiaojian Ma, Siyuan Qi, Yixin Zhu, Hongjing Lu and Song-Chun Zhu
Theory-based Causal Transfer: Integrating Instance-level Induction and Abstract-level Structure Learning
AAAI 2020 / Paper / Project Page / arXiv / Code 
Oral presentation

Xiaojian Ma*, Mingxuan Jing*, Wenbing Huang, Fuchun Sun, Bin Fang and Huaping Liu
Reinforcement Learning from Imperfect Demonstrations under Soft Expert Guidance
AAAI 2020 / Paper / Project Page / arXiv / Code 
also in Structure & Priors in Reinforcement Learning Workshop @ ICLR 2019

Xiaojian Ma*, Chao Yang*, Wenbing Huang*, Fuchun Sun, Huaping Liu, Junzhou Huang and Chuang Gan,
Imitation Learning from Observations by Minimizing Inverse Dynamics Disagreement
NeurIPS 2019 / Paper / Project Page / arXiv / Code 
Spotlight presentation

Hongzhuo Liang, Shuang Li, Xiaojian Ma, Norman Hendrich, Timo Gerkmann, Fuchun Sun and Jianwei Zhang
Making Sense of Audio Vibration for Liquid Height Estimation in Robotic Pouring
IROS 2019 / Paper / Project Page / arXiv / Code / Video 

Xiaojian Ma*, Hongzhuo Liang*, Shuang Li, Michael Görner, Song Tang, Bin Fang, Fuchun Sun and Jianwei Zhang
PointNetGPD: Detecting Grasp Configurations from Point Sets
ICRA 2019 / Paper / Project Page / arXiv / Code / Video 

Xiaojian Ma*, Shuang Li*, Hongzhuo Liang, Michael Görner, Philipp Ruppel, Bin Fang, Fuchun Sun and Jianwei Zhang
Vision-based Teleoperation of Shadow Dexterous Hand using End-to-End Deep Neural Network
ICRA 2019 / Paper / Project Page / arXiv / Code / Video 

Xiaojian Ma*, Mingxuan Jing*, Wenbing Huang, Fuchun Sun and Huaping Liu
Task Transfer by Preference-Based Cost Learning
AAAI 2019 / Paper / Project Page / arXiv / Code 
Spotlight presentation

Education

Experience

Selected Awards and Grants


Professional Service


Contact

UCLA Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Autonomy
3878 Slitcher Hall
603 Charles E Young Dr E
Los Angeles, CA 90024
xm [at] cs [dot] ucla [dot] edu
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