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Jin Shi

ROLE RESEARCHERAT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDONMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN MAY 15, 2026
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Jin Shi is a researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London. He is best known as a co-author of the paper "Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation," which introduces VLA-AD, a distillation framework that compresses billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action policies into lightweight student models using offline semantic guidance from Vision-Language Models.

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product·arXiv Physical AI·MAY 15, 2026

Paper: 'Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation' Authors: Jin Shi, Brady Zhang, Yishun Lu (UCL / Oxford)

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mention·arXiv Physical AI·MAY 15, 2026

compressing a 7-billion-parameter VLA policy down to 158 million parameters while maintaining essentially identical task performance...matches the teacher with only a 0.27% average relative gap

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