Publications

Yuanming Hu (2021). The Taichi High-Performance and Differentiable Programming Language for Sparse and Quantized Visual Computing. MIT EECS Ph.D. thesis.

Yuanming Hu, Jiafeng Liu, Xuanda Yang, Mingkuan Xu, Ye Kuang, Weiwei Xu, Qiang Dai, William T. Freeman, Fredo Durand (2021). QuanTaichi: A Compiler for Quantized Simulations. SIGGRAPH 2021.

Zhiao Huang, Yuanming Hu, Tao Du, Siyuan Zhou, Hao Su, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan (2021). PlasticineLab: A Soft-Body Manipulation Benchmark with Differentiable Physics. ICLR 2021 (Spotlight).

Yuanming Hu (2020). The Taichi Programming Language: A Hands-on Tutorial. SIGGRAPH 2020 Courses.

Yuanming Hu (2020). Life of a Taichi Kernel. Invited talk, 2020..

Yuanming Hu, Luke Anderson, Tzu-Mao Li, Qi Sun, Nathan Carr, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Fredo Durand (2020). DiffTaichi: Differentiable Programming for Physical Simulation. ICLR 2020.

Yuanming Hu, Tzu-Mao Li, Luke Anderson, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Fredo Durand (2019). Taichi: A Language for High-Performance Computation on Spatially Sparse Data Structures. SIGGRAPH Asia 2019.

Yuanming Hu, Xinxin Zhang, Ming Gao, Chenfanfu Jiang (2019). On Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian Simulation Methods: Practical Notes and High-Performance Aspects. SIGGRAPH 2019 Courses.

Andrew Spielberg, Allan Zhao, Yuanming Hu, Tao Du, Wojciech Matusik, Daniela Rus (2019). Learning-In-The-Loop Optimization: End-To-End Control And Co-Design of Soft Robots Through Learned Deep Latent Representations. NeurIPS 2019.

Yuanming Hu, Jiancheng Liu, Andrew Spielberg, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, William T. Freeman, Jiajun Wu, Daniela Rus, Wojciech Matusik (2019). ChainQueen: A Real-Time Differentiable Physical Simulator for Soft Robotics. ICRA 2019.

Yuanming Hu (2018). The ChainQueen Differentiable Physics Engine. MIT EECS Master Thesis, 2018.

Haixiang Liu*, Yuanming Hu*, Bo Zhu, Wojciech Matusik, Eftychios Sifakis (2018). Narrow-Band Topology Optimization on a Sparsely Populated Grid. SIGGRAPH Asia 2018.

Liang Shi, Vahid Babaei, Changil Kim, Michael Foshey, Yuanming Hu, Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Wojciech Matusik (2018). Deep Multispectral Painting Reproduction via Multi-layer, Custom-Ink Printing. SIGGRAPH Asia 2018.

Yuanming Hu, Hao He, Chenxi Xu, Baoyuan Wang, Stephen Lin (2018). Exposure: A White-Box Photo Post-Processing Framework . SIGGRAPH 2018 (TOG), and Tsinghua undergraduate thesis.

Yu Fang, Yuanming Hu, Shi-Min Hu, Chenfanfu Jiang (2018). A Temporally Adaptive Material Point Method with Regional Time Stepping. SCA 2018.

Yuanming Hu, Yu Fang, Ziheng Ge, Ziyin Qu, Yixin Zhu, Andre Pradhana, Chenfanfu Jiang (2018). A Moving Least Squares Material Point Method with Displacement Discontinuity and Two-Way Rigid Body Coupling. SIGGRAPH 2018.

Yuanming Hu, Baoyuan Wang, Stephen Lin (2017). FC4: Fully Convolutional Color Constancy with Confidence-weighted Pooling. CVPR 2017.

Yuanming Hu, Yu Fang (2017). An Asynchronous Material Point Method. SIGGRAPH 2017 Posters.