Yanpeng Zhao

PhD student, University of Edinburgh

Joined

October 2017

Names

Yanpeng Zhao (Preferred)

Emails

****@shanghaitech.edu.cn (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@ed.ac.uk (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)

2018 – 2026

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ivan Titov

2018 – Present

Expertise

representation learning; multimodal reasoning; structured prediction

Present

Publications

A Diagnostic Benchmark for Embodied Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models
Yanpeng Zhao, Wentao Ding, Hongtao Li, Baoxiong Jia, Zilong Zheng
- MUSI
- Readers: Everyone
Probing Visual Planning in Image Editing Models
Zhimu Zhou, Yanpeng Zhao, Qiuyu Liao, Bo Zhao, Xiaojian Ma
- ES-Reasoning @ ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning
Yapeng Mi, Yanpeng Zhao, Hengli Li, Chenxi Li, Huimin Wu, Xiaojian Ma, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu, Qing Li
- LIT Workshop @ ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
NEP: Autoregressive Image Editing via Next Editing Token Prediction
Huimin Wu, Xiaojian Ma, Yanpeng Zhao, Qing Li
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
v-HUB: A Visual-Centric Humor Understanding Benchmark for Video LLMs
Zhengpeng Shi, Hengli Li, Yanpeng Zhao, Jianqun Zhou, Yuxuan Wang, Qinrong Cui, Wei Bi, Song-Chun Zhu, Bo Zhao, Zilong Zheng
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning
Yapeng Mi, Yanpeng Zhao, Hengli Li, Chenxi Li, Huimin Wu, Xiaojian Ma, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu, Qing Li
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
NEP: Autoregressive Image Editing via Next Editing Token Prediction
Huimin Wu, Xiaojian Ma, Haozhe Zhao, Yanpeng Zhao, Qing Li
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
An Efficient Recipe for Long Context Extension via Middle-Focused Positional Encoding
Tong Wu, Yanpeng Zhao, Zilong Zheng
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
On the Transferability of Visually Grounded PCFGs
Yanpeng Zhao, Ivan Titov
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
Connecting the Dots between Audio and Text without Parallel Data through Visual Knowledge Transfer
Yanpeng Zhao, Jack Hessel, Youngjae Yu, Ximing Lu, Rowan Zellers, Yejin Choi
- 2022 (modified: 09 Nov 2022)
- NAACL-HLT 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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