Selected Publications
Bilevel Learning for Bilevel Planning
Bowen Li, Tom Silver, Sebastian Scherer, Alexander Gray
RSS 2025 [Paper] [Project] [Code]
"A bilevel learning framework that invents neural predicates for long-horizon hybrid planning."
Bowen Li, Tom Silver, Sebastian Scherer, Alexander Gray
RSS 2025 [Paper] [Project] [Code]
"A bilevel learning framework that invents neural predicates for long-horizon hybrid planning."
LogiCity: Advancing NeSy AI with Abstract Urban Simulation
Bowen Li, Zhaoyu Li, Qiwei Du, Jinqi Luo, Wenshan Wang, Yaqi Xie, Simon Stepputtis, Chen Wang, Katia Sycara, Pradeep Ravikumar, Alexander Gray, Xujie Si, Sebastian Scherer*
NeurIPS 2024 D&B Track [Project] [Paper] [Code, Data]
"A flexible First-Order Logical abstraction-based multi-agent urban simulator, where LLMs fail."
Bowen Li, Zhaoyu Li, Qiwei Du, Jinqi Luo, Wenshan Wang, Yaqi Xie, Simon Stepputtis, Chen Wang, Katia Sycara, Pradeep Ravikumar, Alexander Gray, Xujie Si, Sebastian Scherer*
NeurIPS 2024 D&B Track [Project] [Paper] [Code, Data]
"A flexible First-Order Logical abstraction-based multi-agent urban simulator, where LLMs fail."
VoxDet: Voxel Learning for Novel Instance Detection
Bowen Li, Jiashun Wang, Yaoyu Hu, Chen Wang, Sebastian Scherer*
NeurIPS 2023 (★ SpotLight ★) [Paper] [Project] [Code, Data]
"A 3D-inspired framework for detecting ANY (Novel) specific instance in the wild."
Bowen Li, Jiashun Wang, Yaoyu Hu, Chen Wang, Sebastian Scherer*
NeurIPS 2023 (★ SpotLight ★) [Paper] [Project] [Code, Data]
"A 3D-inspired framework for detecting ANY (Novel) specific instance in the wild."
PVT++: A Simple End-to-End Latency-Aware Visual Tracking Framework
Bowen Li^, Ziyuan Huang^, Junjie Ye, Yiming Li, Sebastian Scherer, Hang Zhao, Changhong Fu*
ICCV 2023 [Paper] [Project] [Code]
"A simple, general, and effective framework for end-to-end predictive tracking that largely compentes for onboard latency."
Bowen Li^, Ziyuan Huang^, Junjie Ye, Yiming Li, Sebastian Scherer, Hang Zhao, Changhong Fu*
ICCV 2023 [Paper] [Project] [Code]
"A simple, general, and effective framework for end-to-end predictive tracking that largely compentes for onboard latency."
AirDet: Few-Shot Detection without Fine-tuning for Autonomous Exploration
Bowen Li, Chen Wang, Pranay Reddy, Seungchan Kim, Sebastian Scherer*
ECCV 2022 [Paper] [Project] [Code]
"Leverage class-agnostic relation to implement few-shot detection w/o fine-tuning, which enables fast and efficient robotic exploration."
Bowen Li, Chen Wang, Pranay Reddy, Seungchan Kim, Sebastian Scherer*
ECCV 2022 [Paper] [Project] [Code]
"Leverage class-agnostic relation to implement few-shot detection w/o fine-tuning, which enables fast and efficient robotic exploration."
Awards
- Gibbons-Newell Graduate Fellowship 2023@RI, Carnegie Mellon University
- National Scholarship (top 1%, twice) for Undergraduates
- Shanghai Scholarship (top 2%) for Undergraduates
- Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS2021), Carnegie Mellon University
- Excellent Student (top 1%), Tongji University
- Academic Star Model of Tongji University (Ranking 1st)
Service
Academic Reviewer
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- International Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Area Chair
- ICRA 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models and Neural-Symbolic AI for Robotics (FMNS)
Current and Past Affiliations
Mentors and Collaborators
Prof. Sebastian Scherer@CMU
Prof. Chen Wang@Buffalo
Prof. Tom Silver@Princeton
Dr. Alexander Gray@Centaur AI
Prof. Changhong Fu@Tongji
Prof. Hang Zhao@Tsinghua
Contact
- bowenli2@cs.cmu.edu
- +1-412-608-2217
- 1723 Murray Ave, Robotics Institute SQH, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA