Yuyang Zhang 张瑀扬

I am a Ph.D. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), jointly trained at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (EIT). I am advised by Prof. Wenjun Zeng and Prof. Xin Jin, and also work with Prof. Yao Mu.

I am currently a research intern at Tencent Robotics X, working with He Zhang. My research focuses on robot learning, representation learning, 3D reconstruction, and generative models.

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ImageWAM: Do World Action Models Really Need Video Generation, or Just Image Editing?

Yuyang Zhang*, Wenyao Zhang*, Zekun Qi, He Zhang, Haitao Lin, Jingbo Zhang, Yao Mu, Xiaokang Yang, Wenjun Zeng, Xin Jin

* Equal contribution.

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2026

A simple world-action model that repurposes pretrained image editing models for robot action prediction, using editing KV caches as compact world-action context to cut inference cost while improving policy performance.

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