Bofang Jia

I am a research-based master’s student (MEng) at Nanyang Technological University, advised by Prof. Ziwei Wang as part of the Pine Lab.

I received my Bachelor of Engineering degree from Southwest University in June 2025. During my undergraduate studies, I was also a visiting student at Westlake University, advised by Prof. Donglin Wang.

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News

Aug 2025 I became a master student at Nanyang Technological University.
May 2025 I became an outstanding undergraduate graduate of Southwest University.
Jul 2024 I became a visiting student at Westlake University.
Apr 2024 One paper “DLEE: A Dataset for Chinese Document-level Legal Event Extraction” got accepted to NCAA.

Research

My research focuses on sample-efficient robot learning for manipulation. I study how robots can improve beyond demonstrations by learning from real-world interaction, human feedback, and world-model-generated experience. My work spans online reinforcement learning, failure recovery, vision-language-action models, and efficient visuomotor policies.

WorldSample Figure 1: real robot rollouts are expanded into synthetic trajectories in a closed training loop.
More learning from each physical rollout

World models · REAL-WORLD RL

WorldSample: Closed-loop Real-robot RL with World Modelling

Yuquan Xue, Le Xu, Zeyi Liu, Zhenyu Wu, Zhengyi Gu, Xinyang Song, Bofang Jia, Ziwei Wang

arXiv preprint, 2026

WorldSample expands real-robot rollouts into synthetic training experience with a task-adapted world model. Policy-Paced Learning selects and schedules generated data to limit value overestimation. Across five manipulation tasks, it raises average success from 56% to 82% over HIL-SERL while reducing average training steps from 56K to 23K.

PACT Figure 1: suboptimal actions before human intervention receive corrected value targets.
Learning the right lessons from human corrections

Human feedback · REAL-WORLD RL

Preference-Calibrated Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation

Zeyi Liu, Guangyao Liu, Yinuo Qu, Yuquan Xue, Bofang Jia, Chunhua Yang, Weihua Gui, Keke Huang, Ziwei Wang

arXiv preprint, 2026

PACT uses human interventions to correct credit assignment in real-robot reinforcement learning. It identifies suboptimal trajectory segments, calibrates critic targets using intervention-derived preferences, and aligns the actor with corrective actions. Across five tasks, average success rises from 58.0% to 82.5%, while the intervention rate falls from 47.1% to 32.3% versus HIL-SERL.

Overview of reinforcement learning for vision-language-action models.
rl survey

RL-VLA · Survey

A Survey on Reinforcement Learning of Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

Haoyuan Deng, Zhenyu Wu, Haichao Liu, Wenkai Guo, Yuquan Xue, Ziyu Shan, Chuanrui Zhang, Bofang Jia, Yuan Ling, Guanxing Lu, Ziwei Wang

TechRxiv preprint, 2025

This survey organizes reinforcement learning for VLA models from pretraining to real-world deployment. It connects model architectures, training paradigms, deployment frameworks, and evaluation benchmarks, and examines how interaction-driven learning can improve generalization beyond imitation datasets.

RESample v4 Figure 1 compares failure after a deviation with successful recovery using augmented training data.
Targeted data for recovering from execution errors

Failure recovery · Data augmentation

RESample: A Robust Data Augmentation Framework via Exploratory Sampling for Robotic Manipulation

Yuquan Xue, Guanxing Lu, Zhenyu Wu, Chuanrui Zhang, Bofang Jia, Zhengyi Gu, Ziwei Wang

arXiv preprint, 2025 · Updated Aug 2026

RESample uses a learned coverage function to guide exploration toward underrepresented, recoverable deviations, then augments demonstrations with targeted recovery trajectories. On LIBERO and real-world manipulation tasks, it improves success by up to 12 percentage points with no more than 20% additional training samples.

OpenHelix overview of a dual-system vision-language-action architecture.
Connecting high-level reasoning and low-level control

Vision-language-action · Dual-system architectures

OpenHelix: A Short Survey, Empirical Analysis, and Open-Source Dual-System VLA Model for Robotic Manipulation

Can Cui, Pengxiang Ding, Wenxuan Song, Shuanghao Bai, Xinyang Tong, Zirui Ge, Runze Suo, Wanqi Zhou, Yang Liu, Bofang Jia, Han Zhao, Siteng Huang, Donglin Wang

arXiv preprint, 2025

OpenHelix studies how high-level multimodal models and low-level control policies should be connected in dual-system VLA architectures. It combines a survey, empirical analysis of key design choices, and an open-source model to support reproducible comparisons and further development.

SDM Policy architecture for one-step visuomotor policy distillation.
One-step actions from diffusion policies

Policy distillation · Efficient control

Score and Distribution Matching Policy: Advanced Accelerated Visuomotor Policies via Matched Distillation

Bofang Jia*, Pengxiang Ding*, Can Cui*, Mingyang Sun, Pengfang Qian, Siteng Huang, Zhaoxin Fan, Donglin Wang

arXiv preprint, 2024 · * Equal contribution

SDM Policy distills diffusion-based visuomotor policies into one-step generators through score and distribution matching. A dual-teacher design supports action quality during distillation, achieving a 6× inference speedup on a 57-task simulation benchmark.

DLEE overview for Chinese document-level legal event extraction.
Document-level event extraction from legal text

Earlier work · NLP

DLEE: A Dataset for Chinese Document-level Legal Event Extraction

Guochuan Xian, Siyuan Du, Xi Tang, Yuan Shi, Bofang Jia, Banghao Tang, Zhefu Leng, Li Li

Neural Computing and Applications 36, 15581–15597, 2024

DLEE provides a dataset for Chinese document-level legal event extraction, supporting the study of event structures and arguments distributed across legal documents.

Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding undergraduate graduate of Southwest University
  • Southwest University First-Class Scholarship (Top 3%)
  • Southwest University Second-Class Scholarship (Top 8%)

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