Yilun Du

1.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 565 citations indexed

About

Yilun Du is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Geophysics and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Yilun Du has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 565 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 10 papers in Geophysics and 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Yilun Du's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (10 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (8 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (6 papers). Yilun Du is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (10 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (8 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (6 papers). Yilun Du collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Yilun Du's co-authors include Eric Cousineau, Shuran Song, Siyuan Feng, Benjamin Burchfiel, Cheng Chi, Zhenjia Xu, Russ Tedrake, Zhenjia Xu, Cheng Chi and Zhenshan Pang and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of Robotics Research, Ore Geology Reviews and International Journal of Molecular Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Yilun Du

30 papers receiving 542 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion
    2023 204 citations Cheng Chi, Siyuan Feng et al. profile →
  2. Diffusion policy: Visuomotor policy learning via action diffusion
    2024 101 citations Cheng Chi, Zhenjia Xu et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yilun Du China 12 190 165 159 98 59 31 565
Xin Shi China 14 56 0.3× 61 0.4× 60 0.4× 12 0.1× 72 1.2× 53 444
Xiaoyan Chen China 12 46 0.2× 23 0.1× 79 0.5× 56 0.6× 97 1.6× 59 458
Shanshan Wang China 14 416 2.2× 73 0.4× 314 2.0× 7 0.1× 26 0.4× 65 761
Xiaojie Ma China 13 114 0.6× 20 0.1× 130 0.8× 17 0.2× 66 1.1× 28 590
Chunwei Tian China 10 74 0.4× 26 0.2× 337 2.1× 8 0.1× 35 0.6× 20 503
Shichen Liu China 11 117 0.6× 28 0.2× 459 2.9× 17 0.2× 26 0.4× 21 775
Chang Wen China 11 68 0.4× 18 0.1× 218 1.4× 11 0.1× 37 0.6× 43 421
Bailin Li China 14 50 0.3× 26 0.2× 236 1.5× 22 0.2× 21 0.4× 53 556
Daniel B. Rowe United States 8 89 0.5× 39 0.2× 41 0.3× 12 0.1× 25 0.4× 15 302
Yankui Sun China 11 57 0.3× 78 0.5× 194 1.2× 3 0.0× 102 1.7× 45 511

Countries citing papers authored by Yilun Du

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yilun Du

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yilun Du. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yilun Du. The network helps show where Yilun Du may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yilun Du

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yilun Du. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yilun Du based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yilun Du. Yilun Du is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Zhou, Jiachen, et al.. (2025). 3D-Mem: 3D Scene Memory for Embodied Exploration and Reasoning. 17294–17303. 4 indexed citations
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Cai, Shuangfeng, Quan Li, Siyu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Sweet taste receptors play roles in artificial sweetener-induced enhanced urine output in mice. npj Science of Food. 8(1). 2–2. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Lirui, Jialiang Zhao, Yilun Du, Edward H. Adelson, & Russ Tedrake. (2024). PoCo: Policy Composition from and for Heterogeneous Robot Learning. 10 indexed citations
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Chen, Boyuan, et al.. (2024). Diffusion Forcing: Next-token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion. 24081–24125. 4 indexed citations
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Du, Yilun, et al.. (2024). Disentangled Acoustic Fields For Multimodal Physical Scene Understanding. 557–564. 1 indexed citations
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Chi, Cheng, Zhenjia Xu, Siyuan Feng, et al.. (2024). Diffusion policy: Visuomotor policy learning via action diffusion. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 44(10-11). 1684–1704. 101 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Weiyu, Yilun Du, Tucker Hermans, Sonia Chernova, & Chris Paxton. (2023). StructDiffusion: Language-Guided Creation of Physically-Valid Structures using Unseen Objects. 17 indexed citations
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Chi, Cheng, Siyuan Feng, Yilun Du, et al.. (2023). Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion. 204 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Yihua, Yilun Du, Jiayin Sun, et al.. (2023). Efficacy of Alveolar Type II Epithelial Cell Transplantation for Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Meta-Analysis. Iranian Journal of Public Health. 52(1). 1–9. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Nan, Yilun Du, Shuang Li, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & Antonio Torralba. (2023). Unsupervised Compositional Concepts Discovery with Text-to-Image Generative Models. 2085–2095. 4 indexed citations
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Lin, Chunru, et al.. (2023). 3D Concept Learning and Reasoning from Multi-View Images. 9202–9212. 17 indexed citations
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Du, Yilun, Tomás Lozano‐Pérez, & Leslie Pack Kaelbling. (2022). Learning Object-Based State Estimators for Household Robots. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). abs/1602.02867. 12558–12565. 1 indexed citations
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Fu, Jiahui, et al.. (2022). Robust Change Detection Based on Neural Descriptor Fields. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2817–2824. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yong‐An & Yilun Du. (2016). Lessons in ambivalence: The Shanghai Municipal Council’s opium policies, 1906–1917. International Journal of Drug Policy. 37. 136–142. 3 indexed citations
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Du, Yilun, et al.. (2013). Sulphide melt evolution in upper mantle to upper crust magmas, Tongling, China. Geoscience Frontiers. 5(2). 237–248. 12 indexed citations

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