Publication Author Markers Design

Goal

Show equal-contribution and corresponding-author roles consistently across every publication card on the homepage without repeating explanatory notes inside individual cards.

Scope

• Update the 10 cards under the homepage Publications section.
• Do not change the Projects section, publication order, links, descriptions, filtering behavior, or global layout.
• Preserve existing author links and Yueci Deng’s bold treatment.

Marker Convention

• Append <sup>*</sup> to every equal-contribution author.
• Append <sup>†</sup> to every corresponding author.

• Add one shared note directly below the publication filter bar:

  * Equal contribution; † Corresponding author

• Remove DexScale’s existing per-card equal-contribution note.
• Do not add explanatory notes to any individual publication card.

Corresponding Authors

• PAct — Zhen Liu
• Backpropagating Through Simulation / APG — Yueci Deng
• Focus-Then-Contact — Guiliang Liu
• AgentChord — Guiliang Liu
• YOTO++ — Kui Jia
• EVA (shown as EWA on the current homepage) — Zhen Liu
• Sim2Real VLA — Guiliang Liu
• GS-World — Kui Jia
• DexScale — Kui Jia
• YOTO — Kui Jia

APG is a single-author paper and identifies Yueci Deng with the paper’s contact email, so Yueci Deng is treated as the corresponding author for the shared marker convention.

Equal-Contribution Authors

• DexScale — Guiliang Liu and Yueci Deng

No other displayed publication explicitly identifies equal-contribution authors in the verified sources.

Sources

• PAct project page: https://pact-project.github.io/
• APG paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21525
• FTC, AgentChord, and Sim2Real VLA entries on Guiliang Liu’s official publication list: https://guiliang.me/contents/publications.html
• AgentChord paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.11951
• EVA project page: https://eva-project-page.github.io/
• YOTO++ paper: https://hnuzhy.github.io/projects/YOTOPlus/final_YOTO++.pdf
• DexScale project page: https://edem-ai.github.io/dexscale.github.io/
• GS-World paper: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=E23dMeRpE0
• YOTO paper: https://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss21/p149.pdf

Verification

• Confirm all 10 rendered publication cards contain the expected † marker.
• Confirm DexScale retains both existing * markers and gains † on Kui Jia.
• Confirm the shared legend appears once, immediately after the filter bar.
• Confirm no per-card card-note remains.
• Run the Jekyll build and a rendered-page test covering the marker mapping and shared legend.