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Qihang Peng | 彭启航

I'm a first-year Ph.D. student at MMLab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Hongsheng Li. My research interests currently center on multimodal pretraining, from architecture design to training dynamics to data analysis. I'm also interested in agentic learning, embodied intelligence, visual generation, and LLM reasoning.

I received my bachelor's degree from Xingjian College, Tsinghua University in 2026. During my undergraduate studies, I did research at LeapLab, Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Gao Huang.

If you're interested in my research, feel free to reach out, I'm always open to discussion and potential collaborations.

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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
The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering
Aug. 2026 - Present
MMLab, advised by Prof. Hongsheng Li
Tsinghua University Tsinghua University
B.Eng. in Mechanics & Vehicle Engineering
Sep. 2022 - Jun. 2026
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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