I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (CSE, HKUST). I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Song Guo at PEILab. I received my Master’s degree in 2024 from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ). I received my Bachelor’s degree in 2021 from Wuhan University.

My research interests focus on scaling up robot learning. Previously, I gained some experience in NLP. The long-term goal of my research is to develop a machine that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world like humans.

I am currently developing a generative world model for robot learning, which will enable automatic training and evaluation in a virtual environment.

🔥 News

• 2024.06: Our paper, IRASim, which explores generative robot world models, has been released! 🎉 Everything is open source!
• 2023.10: One paper is accepted by EMNLP 2023!🎉
• 2023.05: One paper is accepted by ACL Findings 2023! 🎉
• 2022.11: One paper is accepted by AAAI 2023! 🎉

Preprint

IRASim: Learning Interactive Real-Robot Action Simulators

Fangqi Zhu, Hongtao Wu, Song Guo, Yuxiao Liu, Chilam Cheang, Tao Kong

[Paper] [Code] [Project Website]

📝 Publications

EMNLP 2023

Learning to Describe for Predicting Zero-shot Drug-Drug Interactions

Fangqi Zhu, Yongqi Zhang, Lei Chen, Bing Qin, Ruifeng Xu

EMNLP 2023 (Oral Presentation) | [Paper] [Code]

ACL Findings 2023

A Diffusion Model for Event Skeleton Generation

Fangqi Zhu, Lin Zhang, Jun Gao, Bing Qin, Ruifeng Xu, Haiqin Yang

ACL Findings 2023 (Poster) | [Paper] [Code] [Poster]

AAAI 2023

A Generative Approach for Script Event Prediction via Contrastive Fine-Tuning

Fangqi Zhu, Jun Gao, Changlong Yu, Wei Wang, Chen Xu, Xin Mu, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu

AAAI 2023 (Oral Presentation) | [Paper] [Code] [Poster]

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2021.09 First-class Scholarship of Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

📖 Educations

• 2021.09 - 2024.01, Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ)
• 2017.09 - 2021.06, Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Wuhan University (WHU)

💻 Internships

• 2024.03 - Present, Research Intern, ByteDance, Robotics Research, AI Lab, Beijing, China

• 2023.04 - 2023.12, Research Intern, 4Paradigm, Shenzhen, China

  Mentor: Dr. Yongqi Zhang

• 2022.09 - 2023.03, Research Intern, International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA), DataStory AI lab, Shenzhen, China

  Mentor: Dr. Haiqin Yang & Dr.Lin Zhang