I am a PhD student at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Xiaolong Wang and Prof. Hao Su. My research is supported by the NVIDIA Graduate Research Fellowship, and I previously interned at Meta AI (FAIR).
Before starting my PhD, I was a visiting student at UC Berkeley and a research intern at Berkeley AI Research, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Lerrel Pinto, Prof. Xiaolong Wang, and Prof. Alexei Efros.
I received my BS and MS degrees from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where I worked with Prof. Ole Winther and Prof. Morten Mørup.
I have also spent time at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in lovely Singapore, as well as Retune-DSP (acquired by NXP), and raffle.ai.
Research interest
I am broadly interested in research on the generalization and adaptation of neural agents. I believe AI in the future should be flexible, learn with little supervision, and learn continuously over their lifetime. I work with reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision.
Publications and preprints
Papers sorted by recency. Representative papers are highlighted.
TD-MPC2: Scalable, Robust World Models for Continuous Control
Nicklas Hansen, Hao Su*, Xiaolong Wang*
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024 (Spotlight)
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Nicklas Hansen, Hao Su*, Xiaolong Wang*
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024 (Spotlight)
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Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Open X-Embodiment, [...], Nicklas Hansen, [...] (173 authors)
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
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Open X-Embodiment, [...], Nicklas Hansen, [...] (173 authors)
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
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MoDem-V2: Visuo-Motor World Models for Real-World Robot Manipulation
Patrick Lancaster, Nicklas Hansen, Aravind Rajeswaran, Vikash Kumar
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
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Patrick Lancaster, Nicklas Hansen, Aravind Rajeswaran, Vikash Kumar
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
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GNFactor: Multi-Task Real Robot Learning with Generalizable Neural Feature Fields
Yanjie Ze*, Ge Yan*, Yueh-Hua Wu*, Annabella Macaluso, Yuying Ge, Jianglong Ye, Nicklas Hansen, Li Erran Li, Xiaolong Wang
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023 (Oral)
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Yanjie Ze*, Ge Yan*, Yueh-Hua Wu*, Annabella Macaluso, Yuying Ge, Jianglong Ye, Nicklas Hansen, Li Erran Li, Xiaolong Wang
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023 (Oral)
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Finetuning Offline World Models in the Real World
Yunhai Feng*, Nicklas Hansen*, Ziyan Xiong*, Chandramouli Rajagopalan, Xiaolong Wang
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023 (Oral)
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Yunhai Feng*, Nicklas Hansen*, Ziyan Xiong*, Chandramouli Rajagopalan, Xiaolong Wang
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023 (Oral)
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On Pre-Training for Visuo-Motor Control: Revisiting a Learning-from-Scratch Baseline
Nicklas Hansen*, Zhecheng Yuan*, Yanjie Ze*, Tongzhou Mu*, Aravind Rajeswaran+, Hao Su+, Huazhe Xu+, Xiaolong Wang+
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
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Nicklas Hansen*, Zhecheng Yuan*, Yanjie Ze*, Tongzhou Mu*, Aravind Rajeswaran+, Hao Su+, Huazhe Xu+, Xiaolong Wang+
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
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MoDem: Accelerating Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Demonstrations
Nicklas Hansen, Yixin Lin, Hao Su, Xiaolong Wang, Vikash Kumar, Aravind Rajeswaran
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
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Nicklas Hansen, Yixin Lin, Hao Su, Xiaolong Wang, Vikash Kumar, Aravind Rajeswaran
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
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On the Feasibility of Cross-Task Transfer with Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Yifan Xu*, Nicklas Hansen*, Zirui Wang, Yung-Chieh Chan, Hao Su, Zhuowen Tu
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
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Yifan Xu*, Nicklas Hansen*, Zirui Wang, Yung-Chieh Chan, Hao Su, Zhuowen Tu
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
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Visual Reinforcement Learning with Self-Supervised 3D Representations
Yanjie Ze*, Nicklas Hansen*, Yinbo Chen, Mohit Jain, Xiaolong Wang
Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
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Yanjie Ze*, Nicklas Hansen*, Yinbo Chen, Mohit Jain, Xiaolong Wang
Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
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Graph Inverse Reinforcement Learning from Diverse Videos
Sateesh Kumar, Jonathan Zamora*, Nicklas Hansen*, Rishabh Jangir, Xiaolong Wang
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022 (Oral)
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Sateesh Kumar, Jonathan Zamora*, Nicklas Hansen*, Rishabh Jangir, Xiaolong Wang
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022 (Oral)
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Temporal Difference Learning for Model Predictive Control
Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong Wang*, Hao Su*
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022
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Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong Wang*, Hao Su*
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022
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Look Closer: Bridging Egocentric and Third-Person Views with Transformers for Robotic Manipulation
Rishabh Jangir*, Nicklas Hansen*, Sambaran Ghosal, Mohit Jain, Xiaolong Wang
Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
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Rishabh Jangir*, Nicklas Hansen*, Sambaran Ghosal, Mohit Jain, Xiaolong Wang
Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
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Learning Vision-Guided Quadrupedal Locomotion End-to-End with Cross-Modal Transformers
Ruihan Yang*, Minghao Zhang*, Nicklas Hansen, Huazhe Xu, Xiaolong Wang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022 (Spotlight)
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Ruihan Yang*, Minghao Zhang*, Nicklas Hansen, Huazhe Xu, Xiaolong Wang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022 (Spotlight)
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Stabilizing Deep Q-Learning with ConvNets and Vision Transformers under Data Augmentation
Nicklas Hansen, Hao Su, Xiaolong Wang
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
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Nicklas Hansen, Hao Su, Xiaolong Wang
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
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Generalization in Reinforcement Learning by Soft Data Augmentation
Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong Wang
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
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Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong Wang
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
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Self-Supervised Policy Adaptation during Deployment
Nicklas Hansen, Rishabh Jangir, Yu Sun, Guillem Alenyà, Pieter Abbeel, Alexei A. Efros, Lerrel Pinto, Xiaolong Wang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021 (Spotlight)
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Nicklas Hansen, Rishabh Jangir, Yu Sun, Guillem Alenyà, Pieter Abbeel, Alexei A. Efros, Lerrel Pinto, Xiaolong Wang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021 (Spotlight)
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Short Term Blood Glucose Prediction based on Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data
Ali Mohebbi, Alexander R. Johansen, Nicklas Hansen, Peter E. Christensen, Jens M. Tarp, Morten L. Jensen, Henrik Bengtsson, Morten Mørup
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), 2020
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Ali Mohebbi, Alexander R. Johansen, Nicklas Hansen, Peter E. Christensen, Jens M. Tarp, Morten L. Jensen, Henrik Bengtsson, Morten Mørup
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), 2020
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Misc. open-source projects
TD-MPC2 Official Implementation⭐ 148
Nicklas Hansen, Hao Su*, Xiaolong Wang*
Oct 2023
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Nicklas Hansen, Hao Su*, Xiaolong Wang*
Oct 2023
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TD-MPC Official Implementation⭐ 248
Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong Wang*, Hao Su*
Mar 2022
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Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong Wang*, Hao Su*
Mar 2022
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DMControl Generalization Benchmark⭐ 145
Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong Wang
Nov 2020
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Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong Wang
Nov 2020
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How to build RNNs and LSTMs from scratch with NumPy⭐ 228
Nicklas Hansen, Peter E. Christensen, Alexander R. Johansen
Oct 2019
colab / code
Nicklas Hansen, Peter E. Christensen, Alexander R. Johansen
Oct 2019
colab / code
Voice Activity Detection in Noisy Environments⭐ 178
Nicklas Hansen*, Simon H. Albrechtsen*
Dec 2018
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Nicklas Hansen*, Simon H. Albrechtsen*
Dec 2018
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