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Patrick Yin

Publications 2

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A Balanced Data Diet: Addressing the Exploration Bottleneck in Mega-Scale RL for Robot Control

General-purpose robots must perform a wide range of tasks from agile locomotion to dexterous manipulation. While sim-to-real reinforcement learning (RL) has proven to be a useful tool for this goal, current RL pipelines depend on engineering-heavy, per-task structural priors such as shaped rewards and demonstrations. R …

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Visual Sim-to-Real Learning for Robotic Insertion under Geometric Variations: Application to Rebar Installation

Tao Sun, Beining Han, Patrick Yin et al. · 2026

Rebar insertion is among the most repetitive and physically demanding tasks on construction sites, and a contact-rich problem at 1.4 mm clearance. The parts, however, vary at two levels: a nominal design per structural member, and fabrication tolerance around each nominal design. Real-world data therefore has to be re- …

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