About Me
I am a final-year PhD student at Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) Lab, Tianjin University (TJU), advised by Prof. Jianye Hao.
I interned at Netease Fuxi AI Lab (Fuxi) during 2023, where I worked with Dr. Yujing Hu. I then interned at Tencent JueWu Team, advised by Prof. Zhongwen Xu. I am currently interning with the Tencent Hunyuan Vision & Embodied Team, advised by Han Hu and Shuyang Gu.
I received my Bachelor's degree from Dalian University of Technology (DUT), advised by Prof. Guozhen Tan.
Research Interests
My work connects perception, reasoning, learning, and action.
I am broadly interested in building embodied agents for decision making. To this end, my current research focuses on Embodied AI & Robotics, World Models, Reinforcement Learning, and LLM Agents. I hope to ride the wave of AI changing the world.
News
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Apr 30, 2026One paper accepted by ICML 2026 NEW
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Mar 13, 2026Honored to be selected as one of the EAI Next 20 in EAI-100, supported by ModelScope and Alibaba Cloud. NEW
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Feb 20, 2026One paper accepted by CVPR 2026
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Jan 25, 2026Two papers accepted by ICLR 2026
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Jan 18, 2026One paper accepted by WWW 2026
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Dec 14, 2025Received the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Student Basic Research Project (获得国家自然科学基金青年学生基础研究项目,30万元) !!!
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Nov 25, 2025Our paper selected as the Cover Article by Visual Intelligence
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Nov 8, 2025One paper accepted by AAAI 2026
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Sep 26, 2025Two papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025
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Sep 13, 2025Received the Ant Intech Scholarship (蚂蚁intech奖, 大陆6人,具身智能领域唯一, 奖金5万)
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Jul 12, 2025Received the Outstanding Scholarship of 2024 Tencent Rhino-bird Research Elite Program (2/45) and Best Presentation Award of 2024 Tencent Rhino-bird Research Elite Program (1/45) (获得2024腾讯犀牛鸟精英人才 计划杰出奖学金和个人风采奖)
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May 17, 2025One paper accepted by ACL 2025 findings
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May 1, 2025Two papers accepted by ICML 2025
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Jan 22, 2025One paper accepted by ICLR 2025
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Jan 20, 2025One paper accepted by WWW 2025 Oral Presentation
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Jan 9, 2025Invited Talks: Diffusion Models for Decision Making @ BeNeRL Workshop [Link]
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Jan 8, 2025Received the BYD Scholarship
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Jan 4, 2025Supported by China Association for Science and Technology Youth Ph.D Talent Support Project, Supported by CCF (首届中国科协青年人才托举工程博士生专项计划, 托举学会:中国计算机学会)
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Dec 14, 2024Invited Talks on Auto Bidding as AlGB Track Winner @ NeurIPS 2024 Auto-Bidding in Large-Scale Auctions Competition [Link]
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Nov 20, 2024One papers accepted by IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
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Nov 4, 2024Supported by CIE-Tencent Doctoral Research Incentive Project (首届混元学者/中国电子学会—腾讯博士生科研激励计划,全国17人,奖金10万)
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Sep 26, 2024Three papers accepted by NeurIPS 2024
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Aug 04, 2024Invited Talks: Diffusion Models for Decision Making @ THU MOS [Link]
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May 5, 2024Supported by Tencent Hornbill Elite Talent Programme (腾讯犀牛鸟精英人才计划)
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May 2, 2024One paper accepted by ICML 2024
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Jan 15, 2024Two papers accepted by ICLR 2024
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Dec 03, 2023Invited Talks: Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning with World Model @ DAI2023 Conference
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May 10, 2023One paper accepted by ICML 2023
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Jan 20, 2023One paper accepted by ICLR 2023
Selected demos
Research systems beyond static figures and tables.
Awards
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ModelScope & Alibaba Cloud EAI Next 20 (具身智能学术新锐, 20 recipients nationwide)
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Student Basic Research Project (国家自然科学基金青年学生基础研究项目, 300,000 RMB)
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Ant Intech Scholarship (蚂蚁intech奖, 6 students in mainland China, the only one in Embodied AI)
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Huawei Scholarship (华为奖学金)
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First batch CIE-Tencent Doctoral Research Incentive Project (首届混元学者/中国电子学会—腾讯博士生科研激励计划, 17 students nationwide)
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BYD Scholarship (比亚迪奖学金, 7 Ph.D students each year)
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The First China Association for Science and Technology Youth Ph.D Talent Support Project, Supported by the CCF (首届中国科协青年人才托举工程博士生专项计划)
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Tencent Hornbill Elite Talent Programme (腾讯犀牛鸟精英人才计划)
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Outstanding Scholarship of 2024 Tencent Rhino-bird Research Elite Program (2024腾讯犀牛鸟精英人才计划杰出奖学金, 6 students each year)
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Best Presentation Award of 2024 Tencent Rhino-bird Research Elite Program (2024腾讯犀牛鸟精英人才计划个人风采奖, 1 student each year)
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National Scholarship (国家奖学金)
Selected publications
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Authors with equal contribution are marked by *.
Yifu Yuan (Corresponding Author), Xianze Yao, Yaoting Huang, Pengyi Li, Yi Ma, Hongyao Tang, Jianye HAO
arXiv
Zihao Wu, Hongyao Tang, Yi Ma, Huizhong Song, Pengyi Li, Yifu Yuan, Fei Ni, Jinyi Liu, Wei Wei, Jianrong Wang, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao
arXiv, 2026
project page paper code
Tencent Hunyuan Embodied Team (Core contributor)
paper code
Yaoting Huang*, Yifu Yuan* (Corresponding Author), Linqi Han, Chengwen Li, Shuoheng Zhang, Xianze Yao, Hongyao Tang, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao
ACM MM2026
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Yifu Yuan (Corresponding Author), … (22 authors)
NeurIPS
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Shuoheng Zhang*, Yifu Yuan* (Corresponding Author), Hongyao Tang, Yan Zheng, Qiaojun Yu, Pengyi Li, Guowei Huang, Helong Huang, Xingyue Quan, Jianye Hao
arXiv
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Zihang Ma, Jinyi Liu, Hongyao Tang, Yi Ma, Ruitao Wang, Yifu Yuan, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao
LLA@ICLR 2026
openreview
Zibin Dong, Yicheng Liu, Shiduo Zhang, Baijun Ye, Yifu Yuan, Fei Ni, Jingjing Gong, Xipeng Qiu, Hang Zhao, Yinchuan Li, Jianye Hao
arXiv
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Pengyi Li, Hongyao Tang, Yifu Yuan, Yan Zheng, Xin Xu, Jianye Hao
ICML 2026
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Fei Ni, Zhuo Chen, Yifu Yuan, Zibin Dong, Xianze Yao, Shan Luo, Jianye Hao, Jiankang Deng, Stefanos Zafeiriou
CVPR 2026
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Yifu Yuan, Haiqin Cui, Yaoting Huang, Yibin Chen, Fei Ni, Zibin Dong, Pengyi Li, YAN ZHENG, Jianye HAO
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
project page paper dataset code model
Yifu Yuan, Haiqin Cui, Yibin Chen, Zibin Dong, Fei Ni, Longxin Kou, Jinyi Liu, Pengyi Li, Yan Zheng, Jianye HAO
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
project page paper models & datasets code
Wenya Wei, Qixian Zhou, Yifu Yuan, Ruochen Liu, Xuelei Zhang, Yan Jiang, Yongle Luo, Hailong Wang, Tianzhou Wang, Peipei Jin, Wangtong Liu, Elvis S Liu
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
Deployed in Game: Arena Breakout Infinite
paper homepage
… (3 authors), Yifu Yuan, … (33 authors)
arXiv
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Pengyi Li, Hongyao Tang, Yifu Yuan, Jianye HAO, Zibin Dong, YAN ZHENG
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
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Yiwen Zhu, Jinyi Liu, Pengjie Gu, Yifu Yuan, Zhenxing Ge, Wenya Wei, Zhou Fang, Yujing Hu, Bo An
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
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Zibin Dong, Fei Ni, Yifu Yuan, Yinchuan Li, Jianye Hao
arXiv
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Jinyi Liu, Yan Zheng, Rong Cheng, Qiyu Wu, Wei Guo, Fei Ni, Hebin Liang, Yifu Yuan, Hangyu Mao, Fuzheng Zhang, Jianye Hao
arXiv
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Haiqin Cui*, Yifu Yuan* (Corresponding Author), Yan Zheng, Jianye HAO
Arxiv
project page paper ros firmwares hardware assembly guide demo
Yifu Yuan, Zhenrui Zheng, Zibin Dong, Jianye HAO
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
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Pengyi Li, Jianye HAO, Hongyao Tang, Yifu Yuan, Jinbin Qiao, Zibin Dong, Yan Zheng
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
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Haoyuan Sun, Zihao Wu, Bo Xia, Pu Chang, Zibin Dong, Yifu Yuan, Yongzhe Chang, Xueqian Wang
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
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Yibin Chen*, Yifu Yuan*, Zeyu Zhang, Yan Zheng, Jinyi Liu, Fei Ni, Jianye HAO
The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2025, Oral Presentation (Top5%)
IJCAI2024 Automates Workshop
project page paper code benchmark
Yibin Chen, Jinyi Liu, Yan Zheng, Yifu Yuan, Jianye Hao
Findings of ACL 2025
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Xinglin Zhou*, Yifu Yuan*, Shaofu Yang, Jianye Hao
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (JCR Q1)
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Yifu Yuan, Hongyao Tang, Cong Wang, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao
Visual Intelligence
Cover Article
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Zibin Dong*, Yifu Yuan*, Jianye HAO, Fei Ni, Yi Ma, Pengyi Li, Yan Zheng
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track), 2024
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Zibin Dong, Jianye Hao, Yifu Yuan, Fei Ni, Yitian Wang, Pengyi Li, Yan Zheng
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
project page / paper code
Fei Ni, Jianye HAO, Shiguang Wu, Longxin Kou, Yifu Yuan, Zibin Dong, Jinyi Liu, MingZhi Li, YAN ZHENG, Yuzheng Zhuang
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
project page paper
Longxin Kou, Fei Ni, YAN ZHENG, Jinyi Liu, Yifu Yuan, Zibin Dong, Jianye HAO
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
project page paper
Yifu Yuan*, Jinyi Liu*, Jianye HAO, Fei Ni, Lingzhi Fu, Yibin Chen, Yan Zheng
AAAI2024 RL+LLMs Workshop
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Yifu Yuan, Jianye Hao, Yi Ma, Zibin Dong, Hebin Liang, Jinyi Liu, Zhixin Feng, Kai Zhao, Yan Zheng
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
project page paper benchmark & dataset platform
Zibin Dong*, Yifu Yuan*, Jianye Hao, Fei Ni, Yao Mu, Yan Zheng, Yujing Hu, Tangjie Lv, Changjie Fan, Zhipeng Hu
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
NeurIPS Diffusion Workshop, 2023
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Fei Ni, Jianye Hao, Yao Mu, Yifu Yuan, Yan Zheng, Bin Wang, Zhixuan Liang
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
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Yifu Yuan, Jianye Hao, Fei Ni, Yao Mu, Yan Zheng, Yujing Hu, Jinyi Liu, Yingfeng Chen, Changjie Fan
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
NeurIPS DeepRL workshop, 2022
project page pretrained model paper code
Projects
Internship experience
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2025.07 -AI Researcher (Intern), Tencent Hunyuan Vision & Embodied Team, Shenzhen(advised by Han Hu and Shuyang Gu)
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2024.06 - 2025.06AI Researcher (Intern, Hornbill Programme), Tencent JueWu Team, Tencent, ShenZhen(advised by Zhongwen Xu)
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2022.11 - 2024.05AI Researcher (Intern), Fuxi AI Lab, NetEase, HangZhou(advised by Yujing Hu)
Education
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2023.09 -PhD student, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University(advised by Jianye Hao)
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2021.09 - 2023.06Master, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University(advised by Jianye Hao, transfer to a PhD student)
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2017.09 - 2021.06Bachelor, Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering Department, Dalian University of Technology(advised by Guozhen Tan)
Invited Talks
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2024.12Retrospect the Past: Diffusion Bidding Policy Optimization with Action Relabeling via Ensemble Q-LearningNeurIPS 2024 Auto-Bidding in Large-Scale Auctions (NeurIPS 2024), Canada
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2024.7Diffusion Models for Decision MakingNanjing University
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2023.12Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning with World ModelThe 5th International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI 2023), Singapore
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2023.06EUCLID: Towards Efficient Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning with Multi-choice Dynamics ModelRLChina Seminar
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2023.03EUCLID: Towards Efficient Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning with Multi-choice Dynamics ModelAI Time Seminar
Academic Service
Contact
I'm very welcome to any kind of collaboration or discussion. Feel free to contact me via email atyuanyf [at] tju.edu.cn.