Qihang Peng | 彭启航

I'm a senior undergraduate student at Xingjian College, Tsinghua University, and an incoming Ph.D. student at MMLab, CUHK.

My recent research mainly focuses on native multimodal pretraining and spatial intelligence. I also work with collaborators on visual generation, embodied intelligence, and LLM/VLM reasoning.

Now I'm working closely with Prof. Gao Huang and Prof. Hongsheng Li. If you are also interested in my research, please feel free to contact me.

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WeChat: qihang_peng    Email: pengqihang22@gmail.com

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News
  • 2026-06: Released three technical reports of the Qwen-Robot series.
  • 2026-02: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2026.
  • 2025-06: Awarded by Sensetime Scholarship. 30 undergraduate students nationwide.
  • 2025-02: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2025. My first article as the first author!
  • 2025-01: One paper is accepted by ICLR 2025.
  • 2024-10: Awarded by National Scholarship. Highest honor for undergraduates in China.
  • 2024-09: Supported by Beijing Natural Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Program.
  • 2024-06: Outstanding Championship and Innovation Award in the Track on Multi-View 3D Visual Grounding of the AGC at CVPR 2024.
  • 2023-10: Awarded by Wang Dazhong Scholarship, Tsinghua University. 1 student per major.

Selected Publications

*Equal contribution

Qwen-RobotManip Qwen-RobotManip Technical Report: Alignment Unlocks Scale for Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models
Qwen Team (Qihang Peng as Core Contributor)
Tech Report, 2026
[arXiv] [Blog]

A generalist robotic manipulation foundation model that aligns representations, motions, and behaviors across 15 robot platforms. Trained on ~38,100 hours of pre-training data. Ranks first on RoboChallenge and surpasses π0.5 across 6 OOD benchmarks.

Qwen-RobotNav Qwen-RobotNav Technical Report: A Scalable Navigation Model Designed for an Agentic Navigation System
Qwen Team (Qihang Peng as Core Contributor & Co-first Author)
Tech Report, 2026
[arXiv] [Blog]

A unified navigation model built on Qwen3-VL spanning 5 task families with 15.6M training samples. Achieves SOTA on VLN-CE RxR, HM3Dv2, EVT-Bench, and NAVSIM with real-world deployment on Unitree Go2 quadruped robot.

Qwen-RobotWorld Qwen-RobotWorld Technical Report: Unifying Embodied World Modeling through Language-Conditioned Video Generation
Qwen Team (Qihang Peng as Contributor)
Tech Report, 2026
[arXiv] [Blog]

A language-conditioned video world model with dual-stream MMDiT and MLLM action encoding, trained on 8.6M video-text pairs across 20+ robot morphologies. Ranks #1 on EWMBench, DreamGen Bench, and leads open-source models on WorldModelBench and PBench.

ColaVLA ColaVLA: Leveraging Cognitive Latent Reasoning for Hierarchical Parallel Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving
Qihang Peng, Xuesong Chen, Chenye Yang, Shaoshuai Shi, Hongsheng Li
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
[arXiv] [Code] [Project Page]

ColaVLA moves VLM reasoning into a compact latent space and decodes multi-scale causal trajectories in one pass. State-of-the-art in both open-loop and closed-loop settings with favorable efficiency and robustness on the nuScenes benchmark.

ProxyTransformation ProxyTransformation: Preshaping Point Cloud Manifold With Proxy Attention For 3D Visual Grounding
Qihang Peng, Henry Zheng, Gao Huang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
[arXiv] [Code] [Project Page]

Make full use of multimodal information in ego-centric 3D visual grounding for point enhancement. State-of-the-art on the EmbodiedScan benchmark.

DenseGrounding DenseGrounding: Improving Dense Language-Vision Semantics for Ego-centric 3D Visual Grounding
Henry Zheng*, Shi Hao*, Qihang Peng, et al.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
[arXiv] [ICLR 2025] [AGC 2024]

Use LLM and Ground Truth to enhance semantic details in prompt to reduce the ambiguity during training. Extract individual view semantics and enrich visual representation with global scene-level semantic.

Education
Tsinghua University Tsinghua University
B.Eng. in Mechanics & Vehicle Engineering
Sep. 2022 - Jun. 2026 (Expected)
Rank 1st in major with National Scholarship
Experience
Alibaba Qwen Team, Alibaba Group
Research Intern, working on Embodied Intelligence and VL Pretraining.
Apr. 2026 - Present
Advised by Dr. Xiong-Hui Chen and Shuai Bai
Didi Voyager Research, Didi AutoDriving
Research Intern, working on VLAs for autonomous driving.
Jul. 2025 - Mar. 2026
Advised by Dr. Shaoshuai Shi
LeapLab LeapLab, Tsinghua University
Research Assistant, working on 3D visual grounding.
Feb. 2024 - May 2025
Advised by Prof. Gao Huang
Honors and Awards

  • Sensetime Scholarship, 30 undergraduate students nationwide (2025)
  • National Scholarship, Highest honor for undergraduates in China (2024)
  • Outstanding Championship & Innovation Award, 3D Visual Grounding Track, Autonomous Grand Challenge at CVPR 2024
  • Beijing Natural Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Program (2024)
  • Wang Dazhong Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1 student per major (2023)
  • Teaching

  • Volunteer Lecturer, Advanced Algebra, Xingjian College, Tsinghua University, 2024
        [Midterm Lecture] [Final Lecture]
  • Miscellaneous

  • 🏀 I really like playing basketball. My favorite basketball player is Kevin Durant.
  • 🎮 I often play games in my leisure time, such as Sekiro, Elden Ring, Black Myth: Wukong.

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