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Tsinghua ISR Lab (Jianyu Chen)

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Jianyu Chen's Intelligent Systems and Robotics Lab at Tsinghua IIIS; released the Video Prediction Policy (VPP).

Overview

Jianyu Chen is an assistant professor at Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), where he runs the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Laboratory (ISR Lab). In December 2024 the group, with co-authors from Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, RobotEra, UC Berkeley and Shanghai AI Lab, released Video Prediction Policy (VPP), which conditions a diffusion action head on predictive representations from a fine-tuned video diffusion model. The group is distinct from Tsinghua TSAIL, which is listed separately.

Sources: people.iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn (19 Oct 2026) · arxiv.org (19 Dec 2024)

Type
Research lab

Key people

  • Yucheng HuCo-lead author, VPParxiv.org, 19 Dec 2024
  • Yanjiang GuoCo-lead author, VPParxiv.org, 19 Dec 2024
  • Jianyu ChenSenior / corresponding author, VPParxiv.org, 19 Dec 2024

Funding history

Research lab · University research lab at Tsinghua University; no separate funding.

Ranking

#17 of 104 model companies · score 73.1 / 100 · updated 19 Oct 2026

  • Published benchmarks 35%91%
  • Open weights 20%100%
  • Adoption 20%54%
  • Released models 15%20%
  • Disclosed funding 10%n/a

Each bar shows an input from 0 to 100% before weighting. 1 of 1 listed models have open weights. Most-starred official repository: roboterax/video-prediction-policy (416 stars, 19 Oct 2026).

How we rank model companies

The score (0–100) measures public, checkable evidence about a company's robot models. It does not measure private capability. A company that publishes no benchmark results and no weights can still have strong models. Every input is computed from the data on each company page, and every number there links to its source.

InputWeightHow it is measured
Published benchmarks35%For each scored benchmark, the company's best result divided by the best result any company has published, averaged over the benchmarks it reports. No published results scores 0. Results come only from the model's own paper, model card or the official benchmark leaderboard. Scored: LIBERO (4-suite average success, %); SimplerEnv Google Robot, visual matching (%); SimplerEnv Google Robot, variant aggregation (%); SimplerEnv WidowX / Bridge (%); CALVIN ABC→D (average length, 0–5); RoboArena (pairwise rating).
Open weights20%Share of the company's listed models whose weights the public can download.
Adoption20%GitHub stars on the company's most-starred official model repository, on a log scale relative to the most-starred repository in the list. Hugging Face downloads are shown on company pages but not scored, because gated repositories report zero.
Released models15%Number of publicly announced, named models, capped at 5.
Disclosed funding10%The sum of the funding rounds listed on the company's profile that were disclosed in USD, on a log scale from $10M to the largest sum in the list. Rounds reported only in other currencies are listed but not converted or counted. This input applies only to private startups and robot makers. For big-tech divisions, research labs and listed companies it is n/a, and its weight is shared across the other inputs in proportion.

Sources. arXiv papers and official model cards for benchmarks and parameters; official leaderboards (RoboArena); the GitHub and Hugging Face APIs for stars and downloads; company announcements and established press for funding. Missing values are shown as n/a, never estimated.

Updated 19 Oct 2026. Benchmark protocols differ between papers, for example in fine-tuning and number of trials, so small gaps between close scores are not meaningful.

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Video Prediction Policy (VPP)

Open weightsPolicy

Generalist policy that uses predictive visual representations from a text-guided video diffusion model as input to a diffusion action head.

Released
19 Dec 2024
Parameters
n/a
License
MIT
Embodiments
single-arm, dexterous hand
GitHub stars
416 as of 19 Oct 2026
HF downloads (all time)
n/a
Published benchmark results for Video Prediction Policy (VPP)
BenchmarkResultSource
CALVIN ABC→DCALVIN ABC->D average successful length (0-5)4.33arxiv.orgTable 1 and Sec. 5 text: average task completion length. As of 4 May 2025