👨🏻‍🎓 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.

I’m open to collaborations and discussions. Feel free to drop me an email~

🔥 News

Sep. 2026 🦾 We released Show-Harness [Website, Code], and a Survey on robot-use agent.
Sep. 2026 🎉 Three papers got accepted by CoRL 2026.
May 2026 🎉 Code2Video and ACA got accepted by ICML 2026.
Jan. 2026 🎉 We won the third place in RoCo Challenge @AAAI Embodied AI Workshop 2026.
Nov. 2025 🎉 UniAPO got accepted by AAAI 2026.
Aug. 2025 🎓 Joined Show Lab @ NUS to start my Ph.D. journey!

📝 Publications

⭐ Selected Publications

Show-Harness: Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots

Yanzhe Chen^*, Zechen Bai^*, Zhijun Cao^*, Wenzheng Zeng^*, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Yiqi Lin, Guoqiang Liang, Kevin Yuchen Ma, Qiming Huang, Mike Zheng Shou

arXiv 2026

Show-Harness is an embodied harness that lets VLMs play robots through a compact semantic action interface.

Project Paper Code Models Dataset

Code2Video: A Code-centric Paradigm for Educational Video Generation

Yanzhe Chen^*, Kevin Qinghong Lin^*, Mike Zheng Shou

ICML 2026

Code2Video is an agentic, code-centric framework that generates high-quality educational videos from tutorial topics.

Project Paper Code Dataset

📚 All Publications

Code2Video: A Code-centric Paradigm for Educational Video Generation
Yanzhe Chen^*, Kevin Qinghong Lin^*, Mike Zheng Shou
ICML 2026 Paper
Escaping the Diversity Trap in Robotic Manipulation via Anchor-Centric Adaptation
Yanzhe Chen, Kevin Yuchen Ma, Qi Lv, Yiqi Lin, Zechen Bai, Chen Gao, Mike Zheng Shou
ICML 2026 Paper
Where Success Breaks: Failure-Boundary Learning for Robust Vision-Language-Action Models
Yanzhe Chen^*, Zhijun Cao^*, Mike Zheng Shou
CoRL 2026 Paper
Supervise What Survives: Geometry-Guided VLA Adaptation from Synthetic Robot Videos
Danze Chen, Yanzhe Chen, Qiming Huang, Zhijun Cao, Chen Gao, Mike Zheng Shou
CoRL 2026 Paper
UniAPO: Unified Multimodal Automated Prompt Optimization
Qipeng Zhu^*, Yanzhe Chen^*, Huasong Zhong^*, Jie Chen, Yan Li, Zhixin Zhang, Junping Zhang, Zhenheng Yang
AAAI 2026 Paper
Overconfidence in LLM-as-a-Judge: Diagnosis and Confidence-Driven Solution
Zailong Tian, Zhuoheng Han, Yanzhe Chen, Haozhe Xu, Xi Yang, Richeng Xuan, Houfeng Wang, Lizi Liao
NLPCC 2026 Paper
PaperDoctor: Evidence-Grounded and Actionable Feedback for Scientific Papers in Progress
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
ICMLW AI4S 2026 · Best Poster Award Paper
Show-Harness: Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots
Yanzhe Chen^*, Zechen Bai^*, Zhijun Cao^*, Wenzheng Zeng^*, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Yiqi Lin, Guoqiang Liang, Kevin Yuchen Ma, Qiming Huang, Mike Zheng Shou
arXiv 2026 Paper
Survey on Multimodal Embodied Agents: A Unified Capability-centric Perspective from Computer-Use to Robot-Use
Yanzhe Chen, Ziyi Yang, Jifeng Zhu, Qiming Huang, Ruihe An, Peiyao Xu, Hesen Yang, Runda Liu, Chang Gong, Zhijun Cao, Zechen Bai, Wenzheng Zeng, Yiqi Lin, Guoqiang Liang, Kevin Yuchen Ma, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Mike Zheng Shou
TechRxiv 2026 Paper
ActionMap: Robot Policy Learning via Voxel Action Heatmap
Pei Yang^*, Hai Ci^*, Yanzhe Chen^*, Qi Lv, Han Cai, Mike Zheng Shou
arXiv 2026 Paper
Kiwi-Edit: Versatile Video Editing via Instruction and Reference Guidance
Yiqi Lin, Guoqiang Liang, Ziyun Zeng, Zechen Bai, Yanzhe Chen, Mike Zheng Shou
arXiv 2026 Paper
Spectral Surgery: Training-Free Refinement of LoRA via Gradient-Guided Singular Value Reweighting
Zailong Tian, Yanzhe Chen, Zhuoheng Han, Lizi Liao
arXiv 2026 Paper
MAI: A Multi-turn Aggregation-Iteration Model for Composed Image Retrieval
Yanzhe Chen, Zhiwen Yang, Jinglin Xu, Yuxin Peng
ICLR 2025 Paper
UniCode²: Cascaded Large-scale Codebooks for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
Yanzhe Chen, Huasong Zhong, Yan Li, Zhenheng Yang
Technical Report 2025 Paper
FashionERN: Enhance-and-Refine Network for Composed Fashion Image Retrieval
Yanzhe Chen, Huasong Zhong, Xiangteng He, Yuxin Peng, Jiahuan Zhou, Lele Cheng
AAAI 2024 Paper
SPIRIT: Style-guided Patch Interaction for Fashion Image Retrieval with Text Feedback
Yanzhe Chen, Jiahuan Zhou, Yuxin Peng
TOMM 2024 Paper
Real20M: A Large-scale E-commerce Dataset for Cross-domain Retrieval
Yanzhe Chen, Huasong Zhong, Xiangteng He, Yuxin Peng, Lele Cheng
ACM MM 2023 Paper
PKU_WICT at TRECVID 2022: Disaster Scene Description and Indexing Task
Yanzhe Chen, HsiaoYuan Hsu, James Ye, Zhiwen Yang, Zishuo Wang, Xiangteng He, Yuxin Peng
TRECVID 2022 · Ranked 1st Paper

🏫 Education

National University of Singapore2025.08 – Present

Ph.D., School of Computer (SoC)

Peking University2022.09 – 2025.06

Master, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (AAIS)

Outstanding Graduate of the Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology2025.06
Merit Student2024.11
Leo KoGuan Scholarship2024.11

Wuhan University2018.09 – 2022.06

Undergraduate, School of Computer Science

Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate2022.06
National Scholarship2020.11

📖 Service

Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, ACM MM, etc.
Teaching Assistant: NUS EE4309 Robot Perception

Anno Yanzhe Chen