Yixin Zhu
助理教授
Researches visual reasoning and cognitive models, combining commonsense physics and causality with perception for interactive AI and cognitive robots.
Yixin Zhu's lab at Peking works on embodied & active vision, computational neuroscience & cognition and robot perception & SLAM. 71 papers since 2023. 19 PhD students and 1 master's student. 1 alumnus. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 19/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 19
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 1
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 21 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 15 papers2025 · T1 0
- 16 papers2024 · T1 0
- 19 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Embodied & active vision8 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM7 papers
- Computational neuroscience & cognition0 papers
- cognitive0 papers
- cognitive models0 papers
Paper list
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202621 papers
- Science26A sub–10-millisecond neural dynamical system based on phase-change memristors (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI26AffordX: Generalizable and Slim Affordance Reasoning for Task-oriented Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IJCV26AlphaChimp: Tracking and Behavior Recognition of Chimpanzees (opens in a new tab)
- ACL-Findings26Code over Words: Overcoming Semantic Inertia via Code-Grounded Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- NatureHumanBehaviour26Combined evidence from artificial neural networks and human brain-lesion models reveals that language modulates vision in human perception (opens in a new tab)
- CogSci26Grounding Before Generalizing: How AI Differs from Humans in Causal Transfer (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP26Inferring the Unspoken: Aligning Embodied Agents with Implicit Preferences (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR26Learning physics-grounded 4D dynamics with neural gaussian force fields (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR26MotionMaster: Generalizable Text-Driven Motion Generation and Editing (opens in a new tab)
- CogSci26Multi-Level Narrative Evaluation Outperforms Lexical Features for Mental Health (opens in a new tab)
- CHI26NarrativeLoom: Enhancing Creative Storytelling through Multi-Persona Collaborative Improvisation (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR26Neural Force Field: Few-shot Learning of Generalized Physical Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
202515 papers
- CogSci25A simulation-heuristics dual-process model for intuitive physics (opens in a new tab)
- IROS25Ag2x2: Robust Agent-Agnostic Visual Representations for Zero-Shot Bimanual Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- RA-L25B*: Efficient and Optimal Base Placement for Fixed-Base Manipulators (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL25CLONE: Closed-Loop Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation for Long-Horizon Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS25DrivAerStar: An Industrial-Grade CFD Dataset for Vehicle Aerodynamic Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR25Dynamic Motion Blending for Versatile Motion Editing (opens in a new tab)
- NatureMachineIntelligence25Embedding high-resolution touch across robotic hands enables adaptive human-like grasping (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS25GlobalTomo: A global dataset for physics-ML seismic wavefield modeling and FWI (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR25GROVE: A Generalized Reward for Learning Open-Vocabulary Physical Skill (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS25Heterogeneous Adversarial Play in Interactive Environments (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO25Integration of Robot and Scene Kinematics for Sequential Mobile Manipulation Planning (opens in a new tab)
- CogSci25Probing and Inducing Combinational Creativity in Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
202416 papers
- IROS24Ag2Manip: Learning Novel Manipulation Skills with Agent-Agnostic Visual and Action Representations (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR24AnySkill: Learning Open-Vocabulary Physical Skill for Interactive Agents (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPHAsia24Autonomous Character-Scene Interaction Synthesis from Text Instruction (opens in a new tab)
- CogSci24Evaluating and Modeling Social Intelligence: A Comparative Study of Human and AI Capabilities (opens in a new tab)
- RA-L24Grasp Multiple Objects with One Hand (opens in a new tab)
- ScienceAdvances24Human-level few-shot concept induction through minimax entropy learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR24I-PHYRE: Interactive Physical Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- RA-L24MiniTac: An Ultra-Compact 8 mm Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Enhanced Palpation in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR24Move as You Say, Interact as You Can: Language-guided Human Motion Generation with Scene Affordance (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR24Neural-Symbolic Recursive Machine for Systematic Generalization (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS24PhyRecon: Physically Plausible Neural Scene Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- IROS24PreAfford: Universal Affordance-Based Pre-Grasping for Diverse Objects and Environments (opens in a new tab)
202319 papers
- ICLR23A Minimalist Dataset for Systematic Generalization of Perception, Syntax, and Semantics (opens in a new tab)
- Engineering23A Reconfigurable Data Glove for Reconstructing Physical and Virtual Grasps (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS23Active Reasoning in an Open-World Environment (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS23ChimpACT: A Longitudinal Dataset for Understanding Chimpanzee Behaviors (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR23Diffusion-based Generation, Optimization, and Planning in 3D Scenes (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS23Evaluating and Inducing Personality in Pre-trained Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV23Full-Body Articulated Human-Object Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA23GenDexGrasp: Generalizable Dexterous Grasping (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS23Interactive Visual Reasoning under Uncertainty (opens in a new tab)
- IROS23Learning a Causal Transition Model for Object Cutting (opens in a new tab)
- ICML23MEWL: Few-shot multimodal word learning with referential uncertainty (opens in a new tab)
- ICML23On the Complexity of Bayesian Generalization (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went1 listed
Apply to PekingFall 2027
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