Anno Yanzhe Chen

Anno Yanzhe Chen

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šŸ‘ØšŸ»ā€šŸŽ“ Biography

I am currently a Second-year Ph.D. student at the Show Lab, National University of Singapore, advised by Prof. Mike Zheng Shou.

I obtained my Master of Science degree from the AAIS at Peking University, advised by Prof. Yuxin Peng.

Previously, I have interned at TikTok and Kuaishou.

My research interests include Agent, Robotics, and Multimedia.

Iā€™m open to collaborations and discussions. Feel free to drop me an email!

šŸ”„ News

  • 2026.05 Code2Video and ACA got accepted by ICML 2026 šŸŽ‰
  • 2026.01 We won the third place in RoCo Challenge @AAAI Embodied AI Workshop 2026 šŸŽ‰
  • 2025.11 UniAPO got accepted by AAAI 2026 šŸŽ‰
  • 2025.10 Check out our newest work on creative video generation: Code2Video!
  • 2025.08 Joined Show Lab @ NUS to start my Ph.D. journey!

šŸ“ Publications

ā­ Selected Publications

Code2Video

Code2Video: A Code-centric Paradigm for Educational Video Generation
ICML 2026
Yanzhe Chen*, Kevin Qinghong Lin*, Mike Zheng Shou
Code2Video is an agentic, code-centric framework that generates high-quality educational videos from tutorial topics.

šŸŒ Project Ā Ā ā€¢Ā Ā  šŸ“„ Paper Ā Ā ā€¢Ā Ā  šŸ’» Code Ā Ā ā€¢Ā Ā  šŸ¤— Dataset

šŸ“š All Publications

šŸ¤– Agent

  • Code2Video: A Code-centric Paradigm for Educational Video Generation
    ICML 2026 Ā |Ā  šŸ“„ Paper
    Yanzhe Chen*, Kevin Qinghong Lin*, Mike Zheng Shou

  • PaperDoctor: Evidence-Grounded and Actionable Feedback for Scientific Papers in Progress
    ICMLW AI4S 2026 Ā |Ā  šŸ“„ Paper
    Kevin Qinghong Lin, Siyuan Hu, Pan Lu, Yu Chen, Yanzhe Chen, Owen Queen, Yupeng Chen, Jialin Yu, Junchi Yu, Zifeng Ding, Yuanfeng Ji, Sheng Liu, Jindong Gu, Linjie Li, Mike Zheng Shou, Philip Torr, James Zou

šŸ¦¾ Robotics

  • Escaping the Diversity Trap in Robotic Manipulation via Anchor-Centric Adaptation
    ICML 2026 Ā |Ā  šŸ“„ Paper
    Yanzhe Chen, Kevin Yuchen Ma, Qi Lv, Yiqi Lin, Zechen Bai, Chen Gao, Mike Zheng Shou

  • ActionMap: Robot Policy Learning via Voxel Action Heatmap
    Arxiv 2026 Ā |Ā  šŸ“„ Paper
    Pei Yang*, Hai Ci*, Yanzhe Chen*, Qi Lv, Han Cai, Mike Zheng Shou

šŸ–¼ļø Multimedia

  • UniAPO: Unified Multimodal Automated Prompt Optimization
    AAAI 2026 Ā |Ā  šŸ“„ Paper
    Qipeng Zhu*, Yanzhe Chen*, Huasong Zhong*, Jie Chen, Yan Li, Zhixin Zhang, Junping Zhang, Zhenheng Yang

  • MAI: A Multi-turn Aggregation-Iteration Model for Composed Image Retrieval
    ICLR 2025 Ā |Ā  šŸ“„ Paper
    Yanzhe Chen, Zhiwen Yang, Jinglin Xu, Yuxin Peng

  • FashionERN: Enhance-and-Refine Network for Composed Fashion Image Retrieval
    AAAI 2024 Ā |Ā  šŸ“„ Paper
    Yanzhe Chen, Huasong Zhong, Xiangteng He, Yuxin Peng, Jiahuan Zhou, Lele Cheng

  • SPIRIT: Style-guided Patch Interaction for Fashion Image Retrieval with Text Feedback
    TOMM 2024 Ā |Ā  šŸ“„ Paper
    Yanzhe Chen, Jiahuan Zhou, Yuxin Peng

  • Real20M: A Large-scale E-commerce Dataset for Cross-domain Retrieval
    ACM MM 2023 Ā |Ā  šŸ“„ Paper
    Yanzhe Chen, Huasong Zhong, Xiangteng He, Yuxin Peng, Lele Cheng

šŸ« Education

  • 2025.08 - Present Ph.D., School of Computer (SoC), National University of Singapore.
  • 2022.09 - 2025.06 Master, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (AAIS), Peking University.
  • 2018.09 - 2022.06 Undergraduate, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University.

šŸŽ– Honors

  • 2025.06 Outstanding Graduate of the Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University
  • 2024.11 Merit Student, Peking University
  • 2024.11 Leo KoGuan Scholarship
  • 2022.06 Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate, Wuhan University
  • 2020.11 National Scholarship

šŸ“– Service

  • Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, ACM MM, etc.