Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

2024

  1. Grounded Relational Inference: Domain Knowledge-driven Explainable Autonomous Driving
    Chen Tang, Nishan Srishankar, Sujitha Martin, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2024
    presented at 2020 NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving
  2. Active Exploration in Iterative Gaussian Process Regression for Uncertainty Modeling in Autonomous Racing
    Tommaso Benciolini, Chen Tang, Marion Leibold, Catherine Weaver, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (T-CST), 2024
  3. Skill-Critic: Refining Learned Skills for Reinforcement Learning
    Ce Hao*, Catherine Weaver*, Chen Tang, Kenta Kawamoto, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
    accepted for oral presentation at 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
  4. Guided Online Distillation: Promoting Safe Reinforcement Learning by Offline Demonstration
    Jinning Li, Xinyi Liu, Banghua Zhu, Jiantao Jiao, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chen Tang, and Wei Zhan
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
  5. Pre-training on Synthetic Driving Data for Trajectory Prediction
    Yiheng Li*, Seth Z Zhao*, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang, Chenran Li, Mingyu Ding, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    In EEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
  6. Quantifying Agent Interaction in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Cost-efficient Generalization
    Yuxin Chen, Chen Tang, Ran Tian, Chenran Li, Jinning Li, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    In Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), 2024
    Preliminary version was presented as an extended abstract at 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS).
  7. Optimizing Diffusion Models for Joint Trajectory Prediction and Controllable Generation
    Yixiao Wang, Chen Tang, Lingfeng Sun, Simone Rossi, Yichen Xie, Chensheng Peng, Thomas Hannagan, Stefano Sabatini, Nicola Poerio, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
  8. BeTAIL: Behavior Transformer Adversarial Imitation Learning from Human Racing Gameplay
    Catherine Weaver, Chen Tang, Ce Hao, Kenta Kawamoto, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
  9. Learning Online Belief Prediction for Efficient POMDP Planning in Autonomous Driving
    Zhiyu Huang, Chen Tang, Chen Lv, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
  10. Residual-MPPI: Online Policy Customization for Continuous Control
    Pengcheng Wang*, Chenran Li*, Catherine Weaver, Kenta Kawamoto, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chen Tang, and Wei Zhan
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00898, 2024
    under double-bline review
  11. MEReQ: Max-Ent Residual-Q Inverse RL for Sample-Efficient Alignment from Human Intervetion
    Yuxin Chen*, Chen Tang*, Chenran Li, Ran Tian, Peter Stone, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16258, 2024
  12. WOMD-Reasoning: A Large-Scale Language Dataset for Interactions and Driving Intentions Reasoning
    Yiheng Li, Chongjian Ge, Chenran Li, Chenfeng Xu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chen Tang, Mingyu Ding, and Wei Zhan
    arXiv preprint, 2024
    under review for Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets and Benchmarks Track
  13. CaMP: Causal Motion Predictor for Robust Trajectory Forecasting
    Zizhao Wang*, Chen Tang*, Aolin Xu, Enna Sachdeva, Peter Stone, and Teruhisa Misu
    arXiv preprint, 2024
    under double-blind review
  14. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics: A Survey of Real-World Successes
    Chen Tang*, Ben Abbatematteo*, Jiaheng Hu*, Rohan Chandra, Roberto Martín-Martín, and Peter Stone
    arXiv preprint, 2024
    under review for Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems

2023

  1. Double-Iterative Gaussian Process Regression for Modeling Error Compensation in Autonomous Racing
    Shaoshu Su, Ce Hao, Catherine Weaver, Chen Tang, Wei Zhan, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    In 22nd IFAC World Congress (IFAC), 2023
  2. Editing Driver Character: Socially-Controllable Behavior Generation for Interactive Traffic Simulation
    Wei-Jer Chang*, Chen Tang*, Chenran Li, Yeping Hu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
    presented at 2023 CVPR Workshop on Multi-Agent Behavior: Properties, Computation, and Emergence (MABe) and 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  3. Residual Q-Learning: Offline and Online Policy Customization without Value
    Chenran Li*, Chen Tang*, Haruki Nishimura, Jean Mercat, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023

2022

  1. Dealing with the unknown: Pessimistic offline reinforcement learning
    Jinning Li, Chen Tang, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022
  2. Domain Knowledge Driven Pseudo Labels for Interpretable Goal-Conditioned Interactive Trajectory Prediction
    Lingfeng Sun*, Chen Tang*, Yaru Niu, Enna Sachdeva, Chiho Choi, Teruhisa Misu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, and Wei Zhan
    In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
  3. Interventional Behavior Prediction: Avoiding Overly Confident Anticipation in Interactive Prediction
    Chen Tang, Wei Zhan, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
  4. Hierarchical Planning Through Goal-Conditioned Offline Reinforcement Learning
    Jinning Li, Chen Tang, Wei Zhan, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022
  5. PreTraM: Self-Supervised Pre-training via Connecting Trajectory and Map
    Chenfeng Xu*, Tian Li*, Chen Tang, Lingfeng Sun, Kurt Keutzer, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Alireza Fathi, and Wei Zhan
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
  6. Outracing Human Racers with Model-based Planning and Control for Time-trial Racing
    Ce Hao, Chen Tang, Eric Bergkvist, Catherine Weaver, Liting Sun, Wei Zhan, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.09378, 2022
    under review for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (T-CST)
  7. Designing Explainable Autonomous Driving System for Trustworthy Interaction
    Chen Tang
    PhD Dissertation, 2022
    PhD Advisor: Masayoshi Tomizuka

2021

  1. Exploring Social Posterior Collapse in Variational Autoencoder for Interaction Modeling
    Chen Tang, Wei Zhan, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021

2020

  1. Application Specific System Identification for Model-Based Control in Self-Driving Cars
    Julian M. Salt Ducaju, Chen Tang, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    In 2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2020

2019

  1. A Remote Control Strategy for an Autonomous Vehicle with Slow Sensor Using Kalman Filtering and Dual-Rate Control
    Ángel Cuenca, Wei Zhan, Julián Salt, José Alcaina, Chen Tang, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    Sensors, 2019
  2. Toward Modularization of Neural Network Autonomous Driving Policy Using Parallel Attribute Networks
    Zhuo Xu, Haonan Chang, Chen Tang, Changliu Liu, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    In 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2019
  3. Disturbance-observer-based tracking controller for neural network driving policy transfer
    Chen Tang*, Zhuo Xu*, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2019
  4. Adaptive Probabilistic Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Through Physically Feasible Bayesian Recurrent Neural Network
    Chen Tang, Jianyu Chen, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019

2018

  1. Zero-shot Deep Reinforcement Learning Driving Policy Transfer for Autonomous Vehicles based on Robust Control
    Zhuo Xu*, Chen Tang*, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    In 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2018
    Best Student-Paper Runner-up
  2. Continuous Decision Making for On-Road Autonomous Driving under Uncertain and Interactive Environments
    Jianyu Chen, Chen Tang, Long Xin, Shengbo Eben Li, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
    In 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2018

2017

  1. A Highly Sensitive Graphene Woven Fabric Strain Sensor for Wearable Wireless Musical Instruments
    Xu Liu, Chen Tang, Xiaohan Du, Shuai Xiong, Siyuan Xi, Yuefeng Liu, Xi Shen, Qingbin Zheng, Zhenyu Wang, Ying Wu, and  others
    Materials Horizons, 2017

2015

  1. The Capillary Number Effect on the Capture Efficiency of Cancer Cells on Composite Microfluidic Filtration Chips
    Cong Zhao, Rui Xu, Kui Song, Dayu Liu, Shuo Ma, Chen Tang, Chun Liang, Yitshak Zohar, and Yi-Kuen Lee
    In 2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2015