Ruipeng Zhang

Ruipeng Zhang

I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC San Diego (adviced by Prof. Sicun Gao)

I work on Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Deep Learning

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Selected Publications

When Maximum Entropy Misleads Policy Optimization
Ruipeng Zhang, Ya-Chien Chang, Sicun Gao
ICML, 2025. arXiv | code | slides

Improving Value Estimation Critically Enhances Vanilla Policy Gradient
Tao Wang, Ruipeng Zhang, Sicun Gao
ICML, 2025. arXiv | code

Sequence Modeling for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Trajectory Optimization with Sampling-based Robustness Analysis
Katherine Mao, Hongzhan Yu, Ruipeng Zhang, Igor Spasojevic, M Ani Hsieh, Sicun Gao, Vijay Kumar
CoRL, 2025. arXiv

Learning-based motion planning in dynamic environments using GNNs and temporal encoding
Ruipeng Zhang, Chenning Yu, Jingkai Chen, Chuchu Fan, Sicun Gao
Neurips, 2022. arXiv | website | code

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Reviewer: NeurIPS