Yixin Zhang

Yixin Zhang

Master in Robotics, Georgia Institute of Technology

I am a Master’s student in Robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working with Prof. Danfei Xu and Prof. Yongxin Chen. I maintain a GPA of 4.0/4.0 and expect to graduate in May 2026.

My research focuses on developing generative algorithms for long-horizon imitation learning and planning. I am particularly interested in compositional diffusion sampling methods that synthesize coherent long-horizon plans from short-horizon data. I also work on leveraging video-action models to improve policy learning through joint training with visual prediction and action generation.

Publications ( show selected / show by date / show by topic )

Topics: Decision Making

Compositional Visual Planning via Inference-Time Diffusion Scaling

Yixin Zhang, Yunhao Luo, Utkarsh Mishra, Woochul Shin, Yongxin Chen, Danfei Xu.

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

Experience

Robot Learning and Reasoning Lab

  • EgoWAM: leveraging video-action models to improve policy learning through joint training with visual prediction and action generation.
  • Compositional Visual Planning: introducing an inference-time compositional sampling approach that scales to unseen and long-horizon reasoning tasks.

School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech

  • CS7643 Deep Learning. Supervisor: Prof. Danfei Xu.
  • CS8803 Advanced Mobile Robotics. Supervisor: Prof. Frank Dellaert.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • First-class Undergraduate Academic Scholarship.2021–2023
  • National Scholarship.2022

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Python, C/C++, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, MATLAB.

Machine Learning

PyTorch, multi-node multi-GPU training.

Robotics

ROS, Gazebo, PyBullet, MuJoCo, SAPIEN.

Real Robot Experience

RBY1 robot
RBY1
Panda robot arm
Panda
ARX robot arm
ARX Arm