Letian (Max) Fu

I am a PhD student at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Ken Goldberg. I am also a research intern at NVIDIA, working with Jim Fan and Yuke Zhu.

I work on multi-modal models for both perception and robot learning. I am interested in scaling robot foundation models by investigating various approaches to expand robot datasets and leveraging priors from existing foundation models.

I received B.A./M.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2023.

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Selected Publications
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🦦OTTER: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Text-Aware Visual Feature Extraction
Huang Huang*, Fangchen Liu*, Letian Fu*, Tingfan Wu, Mustafa Mukadam, Jitendra Malik, Ken Goldberg, Pieter Abbeel
*Equal contribution
Arxiv 2025, Paper, Website, Code
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In-Context Imitation Learning via Next-Token Prediction
Letian Fu*, Huang Huang*, Gaurav Datta*, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, William Chung-Ho Panitch, Fangchen Liu, Hui Li, Ken Goldberg
*Equal contribution
ICRA 2025, Paper, Website, Code, Dataset
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A Touch, Vision, and Language Dataset for Multimodal Alignment
Letian Fu, Gaurav Datta*, Huang Huang*, William Chung-Ho Panitch*, Jaimyn Drake*, Joseph Ortiz, Mustafa Mukadam, Mike Lambeta, Roberto Calandra, Ken Goldberg
*Equal contribution
ICML 2024, Oral Presentation, OpenReview, Website, Code, Dataset
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Rethinking Patch Dependence for Masked Autoencoders
Letian Fu*, Long Lian*, Renhao Wang, Baifeng Shi, Xudong Wang, Adam Yala†, Trevor Darrell†, Alexei A Efros†, Ken Goldberg†
*Equal contribution, †Equal advising
TMLR 2025, Paper, Website, Code
Robot Learning with Sensorimotor Pre-training
Ilija Radosavovic, Baifeng Shi, Letian Fu, Ken Goldberg, Trevor Darrell, Jitendra Malik
CoRL 2023, Oral Presentation, OpenReview
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Safely Learning Visuo-Tactile Feedback Policies in Real For Industrial Insertion
Letian Fu, Huang Huang, Lars Berscheid, Hui Li, Ken Goldberg, Sachin Chitta,
ICRA 2023, arXiv
Evo-NeRF: Evolving NeRF for Sequential Robot Grasping
Justin Kerr, Letian Fu, Huang Huang, Yahav Avigal, Matthew Tancik, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Angjoo Kanazawa, Ken Goldberg
CoRL 2022, Oral Presentation, OpenReview
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Mechanical Search on Shelves with Efficient Stacking and Destacking of Objects
Letian Fu*, Huang Huang*, Michael Danielczuk, Chung Min Kim, Zachary Tam, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Anelia Angelova, Brian Ichter, and Ken Goldberg, *Equal contribution
ISRR 2022, arXiv
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LEGS: Learning Efficient Grasp Sets for Exploratory Grasping
Letian Fu, Michael Danielczuk, Ashwin Balakrishna, Daniel S. Brown, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Eugen Solowjow, Ken Goldberg,
ICRA 2022, IEEE, arxiv
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Mechanical Search on Shelves using a Novel "Bluction" Tool
Huang Huang, Michael Danielczuk, Chung Min Kim, Letian Fu, Zachary Tam, Jeffrey Ichnowski, Anelia Angelova, Brain Ichter, Ken Goldberg,
ICRA 2022, IEEE, arXiv

Website is in part based on Jon Barron's site.