Publications, Talks & Workshops
Last updated July 2026

Pre-training for manipulation: Empirical studies and open tools for the science of robot pre-training Speaker & Panelist · VLA Pipelines Workshop, ICRA 2026 · June 2026 [Workshop]
CodeDiffuser: Attention-Enhanced Diffusion Policy via VLM-Generated Code for Instruction Ambiguity
Guang Yin Yin, Yitong Li, Yixuan Wang, Dale Mcconachie, Paarth Shah, Kunimatsu Hashimoto, Huan Zhang, Katherine Liu, Yunzhu Li RSS 2025 [PDF]

Learning to Simulate Robot Worlds Organizer & Panel Moderator · CoRL 2025 · September 2025 [Workshop]
SE(3) Equivariant Ray Embeddings for Implicit Multi-View Depth Estimation
Yinshuang Xu, Dian Chen, Katherine Liu, Sergey Zakharov, Rares Ambrus, Kostas Daniilidis, Vitor Guizilini NeuRIPS 2024 [PDF]
Multi-Object Manipulation via Object-Centric Neural Scattering Functions
Stephen Tian, Yancheng Cai, Hong-Xing Yu, Sergey Zakharov, Katherine Liu, Adrien Gaidon, Yunzhu Li, Jiajun Wu CVPR 2023
VoluMon: Weakly-Supervised Volumetric Monocular Estimation with Ellipsoid Representations
Katherine Liu, Kyel Ok, Nicholas Roy IROS 2021 [PDF]
Hierarchical Object Map Estimation for Efficient and Robust Navigation
Kyel Ok, Katherine Liu, Nicholas Roy ICRA 2021 [PDF]
Online High-Level Model Estimation for Efficient Hierarchical Robot Navigation
Martina Stadler, Katherine Liu, Nicholas Roy IROS 2021 [PDF]
Search and Rescue Under the Forest Canopy Using Multiple UAVs
Yulun Tian, Katherine Liu, Kyel Ok, Loc Tran, Danette Allen, Nicholas Roy, Jonathan P How IJRR 2020 [PDF]
Learned Sampling Distributions for Efficient Planning in Hybrid Geometric and Object-Level Representations
Katherine Liu, Martina Stadler, Nicholas Roy ICRA 2020 [PDF]
Robust Object-Based SLAM for High-Speed Autonomous Navigation
Kyel Ok, Katherine Liu, Kris Frey, Jonathan P How, Nicholas Roy ICRA 2019 [PDF]
Deep Inference for Covariance Estimation: Learning Gaussian Noise Models for State Estimation
Katherine Liu, Kyel Ok, William Vega-Brown, Nicholas Roy ICRA 2018 [PDF]