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William Chen

ROLE PHD RESEARCHERAT UC BERKELEYMENTIONS 4LAST SEEN JUNE 11, 2026
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Co-first author of FRS paper, building research program around controllable and adaptable generalist policies at UC Berkeley RAIL Lab.

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product·arXiv Physical AI·JUNE 11, 2026

“FRS is an inference-time mechanism to unlock that latent knowledge without retraining the base model.”

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mention·arXiv Physical AI·JUNE 11, 2026

“up to 95% absolute task success rate boosts in under a minute of training (Abstract) on 10 trajectories — challenges the assumption that adaptation requires significant data collection infrastructure.”

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mention·arXiv Physical AI·JUNE 11, 2026

“Chen has prior work on training strategies for embodied reasoning (Reference 11) and steerable VLA policies (Reference 12). He is building a consistent research program around making generalist policies more controllable and adaptable.”

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mention·arXiv Physical AI·JUNE 11, 2026

“Authors: Andy Tang, William Chen, Andrew Wagenmaker, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine (Stanford + UC Berkeley). Date: June 2025. arXiv: 2606.13675.”

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