Yifan Ye

Research Interests

Embodied AI, World-Action Models, Vision-Language-Action Models, Tactile Manipulation, and Efficient Robot Learning.

Education

Research Experience

Publications

1. Yifan Ye*, Yankai Fu*, Yaoxu Lv*, Bohan Hou*, Jun Cen*†, Lingdong Kong*, Duo Zheng, Tianxing Chen, Jiaming Liu, Ziang Cao, Yunfan Lou, Wei Chow, Xian Sun, Yingshuo Wang, Kuangzhi Ge, Xiaowei Chi, Xidong Zhang, Zhibo Pang, Yiwu Zhong, Sirui Han, Zhihe Lu, Weihao Yuan, Qifeng Chen, Michael Yu Wang, Yao Mu, Ziwei Liu, Jianfei Yang, Ping Luo, Shanghang Zhang‡. “Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation.” arXiv preprint, arXiv:2607.24744, 2026.
2. Yifan Ye, Jun Cen, Jing Chen, Zhihe Lu. “Self-evolved Imitation Learning in Simulated World.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2026.3683594.
3. Yifan Ye, Jiaqi Ma, Jun Cen, Zhihe Lu. “Token Expand-Merge: Training-Free Token Compression for Vision-Language-Action Models.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2026.3703265.
4. Yunfan Lou*, Yifan Ye*†, Yankai Fu*, Jun Cen, Xiaowei Chi, Yaoxu Lyu, Peidong Jia, Sirui Han, Zhihe Lu, Shanghang Zhang. “Dream-Tac: A Unified Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation.” Accepted by ACM Multimedia, 2026.
5. Jiajun Li*, Tiecheng Guo*, Yifan Ye*, Rongyu Zhang, Xiaowei Chi, Qianpu Sun, Ying Li, Yunfan Lou, Yan Huang, Zhihe Lu, Meng Guo, Shanghang Zhang. “Efficient-WAM: A 1B-Parameter World-Action Model with Low-Cost Future Imagination.” Technical report, 2026.
6. Yifan Ye*, Shuai Fu*, Jing Chen. “Learning Cross-Domain Representations by Vision Transformer for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation.” Neural Computing and Applications, 2023.

* Equal contribution. † Project leader. ‡ Corresponding author.

Honors & Awards

Skills & Additional Information

• Programming: Python and PyTorch.
• Languages: Mandarin (native), Cantonese (fluent), and English (fluent; IELTS 7.5).
• Content: Technical writing on Zhihu with more than 100,000 accumulated views.
• Sports: Football, tennis, and swimming.