Yanyuan Qiao

I am a postdoctoral research fellow working with Asst.Prof. Josie Hughes at Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Previously, I worked with A.P. Qi Wu, at Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), The University of Adelaide, where I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science under the supervision of A.P. Qi Wu and Dr. Yuankai Qi.

My research interests lie broadly in the field of Vision and Language, Embodied AI, and AI-Driven Robotics Design.

I welcome academic collaborations in related research areas. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in working together.

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News

[Jul. 2026] I serve as a Senior Program Committee member for AAAI 2027.

[Apr. 2026] I serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026.

[Jan. 2026] One paper is accepted by ICRA 2026.

[Sept. 2025] Two papers are accepted by NeurIPS 2025.

[Aug. 2025] Two papers are accepted by EMNLP 2025.

[Jun. 2025] One paper is accepted by ICCV 2025 and two papers are accepted by IROS 2025.

[Apr. 2025] MiniVLN has been selected as ICRA 2025 Best Paper Award Finalist.

[Jan. 2025] One paper is accepted by ICLR 2025 and four papers are accepted by ICRA 2025.

Selected Publications [Full List]


clean-usnob  Lang2Morph: Language-Driven Morphological Design of Robotic Hands
Yanyuan Qiao, Kieran Gilday, Yutong Xie, Josie Hughes
arxiv
clean-usnob NavBench: Probing Multimodal Large Language Models for Embodied Navigation
Yanyuan Qiao, Haodong Hong, Wenqi Lyu, Dong An, Siqi Zhang, Yutong Xie, Xinyu Wang, Qi Wu
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
project / arxiv
clean-usnob Open-Nav: Exploring Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environment with Open-Source LLMs
Yanyuan Qiao, Wenqi Lyu, Hui Wang, Zixu Wang, Zerui Li, Yuan Zhang, Mingkui Tan, Qi Wu
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
project / arxiv
clean-usnob MiniVLN: Efficient Vision-and-Language Navigation by Progressive Knowledge Distillation
Junyou Zhu, Yanyuan Qiao, Siqi Zhang, Xingjian He, Qi Wu, Jing Liu
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025, Best Paper Finalist
arxiv
clean-usnob General Scene Adaptation for Vision-and-Language Navigation
Haodong Hong, Yanyuan Qiao, Sen Wang, Jiajun Liu, Qi Wu
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
paper
clean-usnob VL-Mamba: Exploring State Space Models for Multimodal Learning
Yanyuan Qiao, Zheng Yu, Zijia Zhao, Sihan Chen, Mingzhen Sun, Longteng Guo, Qi Wu, Jing Liu
NeurIPS Workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing, 2024
project / arxiv / code
clean-usnob LLM as Copilot for Coarse-grained Vision-and-Language Navigation
Yanyuan Qiao, Qianyi Liu, Jiajun Liu, Jing Liu, Qi Wu
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
paper

clean-usnob 		March in Chat: Interactive Prompting for Remote Embodied Referring Expression
Yanyuan Qiao, Yuankai Qi, Zheng Yu, Jing Liu, Qi Wu
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
paper / arxiv / code
clean-usnob VLN-PETL: Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for Vision-and-Language Navigation
Yanyuan Qiao, Zheng Yu, Qi Wu
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
paper / arxiv / code
clean-usnob HOP+: History-Enhanced and Order-Aware Pre-Training for Vision-and-Language Navigation
Yanyuan Qiao, Yuankai Qi, Yicong Hong, Zheng Yu, Peng Wang, Qi Wu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2023
paper
clean-usnob HOP: History-and-Order Aware Pre-training for Vision-and-Language Navigation
Yanyuan Qiao, Yuankai Qi, Yicong Hong, Zheng Yu, Peng Wang, Qi Wu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
paper / arxiv / code
clean-usnob R-GAN: Exploring Human-like Way for Reasonable Text-to-Image Synthesis via Generative Adversarial Networks
Yanyuan Qiao, Qi Chen, Chaorui Deng, Ning Ding, Yuankai Qi, Mingkui Tan, Xincheng Ren, Qi Wu.
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021
paper

Services

Workshop Organizer: Learning-based Robot Co-design: Generative and Iterative Approaches, IROS 2026.

Conference Area Chair: NeurIPS 2026.

Senior Program Committee: AAAI 2027.

Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2025/2026, ICML 2025/2026, CVPR 2024-2026, RoboSoft 2026, ICCV 2025, ECCV 2024/2026, NeurIPS 2024/2025, CoRL 2025/2026, ACM MM 2024-2026, AAAI 2024, ICRA 2024-2026, IROS 2025/2026, BMVC 2021/2023/2024, WACV 2024, MICCAI 2026.

Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Nature Communications, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), Pattern Recognition (PR), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).