Ya-Qin Zhang

Full Professor, AIR, Tsinghua University

Joined

May 2022

Names

Ya-Qin Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@air.tsinghua.edu.cn (Confirmed)

****@outlook.com

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

AIR, Tsinghua University (tsinghua.edu.cn)

2020 – Present

president

Baidu (baidu.com)

2014 – 2019

Researcher

Microsoft Research Asia (microsoft.com)

2000 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Xianyuan Zhan

2021 – 2025

Coauthor

Jingjing Liu

2021 – 2025

Coauthor

Guyue Zhou

2020 – 2025

Coworker

Kai-Fu Lee

1999 – 2004

PhD Advisor

Raymond Pickholtz

1986 – 1990

Expertise

Video coding

deep learning

autonomous driving

1990 – 2025

Publications

Unleashing the Potential of Diffusion Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Yinan Zheng, Tianyi Tan, Bin Huang, Enguang Liu, Ruiming Liang, Jianlin Zhang, Jianwei Cui, Guang Chen, Kun Ma, Hangjun Ye, Long Chen, Ya-Qin Zhang, Xianyuan Zhan, Jingjing Liu
- ICLR 2026 DeLTa Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
X-VLA: Soft-Prompted Transformer as Scalable Cross-Embodiment Vision-Language-Action Model
Jinliang Zheng, Jianxiong Li, Zhihao Wang, Dongxiu Liu, Xirui Kang, Yuchun Feng, Yinan Zheng, Jiayin Zou, Yilun Chen, Jia Zeng, Tai Wang, Ya-Qin Zhang, Jingjing Liu, Xianyuan Zhan
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Writing-RL: Advancing Long-form Writing via Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning
Xuanyu Lei, Chenliang Li, Yuning Wu, Kaiming Liu, Weizhou Shen, Peng Li, Ming Yan, Fei Huang, Ya-Qin Zhang, Yang Liu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MemAgent: Reshaping Long-Context LLM with Multi-Conv RL-based Memory Agent
Hongli Yu, Tinghong Chen, Jiangtao Feng, Jiangjie Chen, Weinan Dai, Qiying Yu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Jingjing Liu, Mingxuan Wang, Hao Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Vector Quantization using Gaussian Variational Autoencoder
Tongda Xu, Wendi Zheng, Jiajun He, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Yan Wang, Ya-Qin Zhang, Jie Tang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
BudgetThinker: Empowering Budget-aware LLM Reasoning with Control Tokens
Hao Wen, Xinrui Wu, Yi Sun, Feifei Zhang, Liye Chen, Jie Wang, Yifan Su, Yunxin Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Yuanchun Li
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
ParaThinker: Native Parallel Thinking as a New Paradigm to Scale LLM Test-time Compute
Hao Wen, Yifan Su, Feifei Zhang, Xinrui Wu, Yi Sun, Yunxin Liu, Yunhao Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Yuanchun Li
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Feedforward 4D Reconstruction for Dynamic Driving Scenes using Unposed Images
Xiaoxue Chen, Ziyi Xiong, Yuantao Chen, Gen Li, Nan Wang, Hongcheng Luo, Long Chen, Haiyang Sun, BING WANG, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Hongyang Li, Ya-Qin Zhang, Hao Zhao
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
PE-SGD: Differentially Private Deep Learning via Evolution of Gradient Subspace for Text
Tianyuan Zou, Zinan Lin, Sivakanth Gopi, Yang Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Robert Sim, Xin Deng, Sergey Yekhanin
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Coder as Editor: Code‑driven Interpretable Molecular Optimization
Wenyu Zhu, Chengzhu Li, Xiaohe Tian, Yifan Wang, Yinjun Jia, Jianhui Wang, Bowen Gao, Ya-Qin Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Yanyan Lan
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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