Zihan Yang

Curious Mind | Gentle but Resolute

School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University

About Me

I am Zihan Yang, currently a sophomore student in the Intelligent Science and Technology program (Zhi Class) at Peking University. Serving as the Vice President of the Academic Committee of Intelligence Science and Technology (ZhiXueHui).

My primary research interest lies in Embodied AI, focusing on how intelligent agents can learn and interact with physical environments through sensory-motor experiences. I believe that true intelligence emerges from the interaction between an agent and its environment, and I am excited to contribute to this rapidly evolving field.

I enjoy playing the guitar, shuttlecock kicking, playing table tennis, and chatting with people.

Research Interests

Agentic Robot Learning / Code as Policy
Vision-Language Navigation
VLA / World Model

Selected Publications

LaST_0.5

LaST_0.5: A Generalist World Action Model with Interaction-Centric Latent Reasoning

Xuheng Zhang†, Yiming Zhang†, Jialin Gao†, Hao Chen†, Jiaming Liu†, Ji Li, Runzhong Huang, Yinxi Wang, Chenyang Gu, Zihan Yang, Yaowei Liu, Zhonghao Yan, Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang, Peng Jia, Pheng-Ann Heng, Shanghang Zhang‡. [†Equal Contribution, ‡Corresponding Author]

arXiv 2026

Playful Agentic Robot Learning

Junyi Zhang*,†, Jiaxin Ge*,†, Hanjun Yoo†, Letian Fu‡, Zihan Yang‡, Yaowei Liu‡, Raj Saravanan‡, Shaofeng Yin, Justin Yu, Dantong Niu, Zirui Wang, Roei Herzig, Ken Goldberg, Yutong Bai, David M. Chan, Ion Stoica, Angjoo Kanazawa, Jiahui Lei§, Haiwen Feng§, Trevor Darrell. [†, ‡, § Equal Contribution; * Project Leads]

arXiv 2026 Paper

VTInstructor: Visual Trajectory Prompting for Navigation Instruction Generation in Continuous Environments

Haolin Yang†, Yuxing Long†, Zihan Yang†, Hao Dong‡. [†Equal Contribution, ‡Corresponding Author]

ACM MM 2026

NavSpace

NavSpace: How Navigation Agents Follow Spatial Intelligence Instructions

Haolin Yang†, Yuxing Long†, Zhuoyuan Yu, Zihan Yang, Minghan Wang, Jiapeng Xu, Yihan Wang, Ziyan Yu, Wenzhe Cai, Lei Kang, Hao Dong‡. [†Equal Contribution, ‡Corresponding Author]

ICRA 2026 Paper

CorrectNav

CorrectNav: Self-Correction Flywheel Empowers Vision-Language-Action Navigation Model

Zhuoyuan Yu†, Yuxing Long†, Zihan Yang, Chengyan Zeng, Hongwei Fan, Jiyao Zhang, Hao Dong‡. [†Equal Contribution, ‡Corresponding Author]

AAAI 2026 Paper

Selected Awards & Funding

2026-present

National Natural Science Foundation of China Undergraduate Research Grant（国家自然科学基金（本科生））

Project: Research on World Model Construction and Self-Evolution Methods for Intelligent Emergence Oriented to the Physical World

Role: Principal Investigator, fully funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China

2026

Huang Yicong Scholarship

2026

SenseTime Scholarship（商汤奖学金）

No more than 30 undergraduate recipients nationwide each year!

2025

National Scholarship

Highest honor for undergraduates in China!