01 Training · Action Modeling
NeurIPS / 2025
Wenbo Zhang.
Ph.D. Candidate · Embodied AI · Robotic Manipulation
Now
Research Intern @ ByteDance Seed, BeijingPhD Candidate @ Adelaide University, Australia
Research
Building physical agents?Why not virtual agents? Sadly, I believe that space is — and will increasingly be — rapidly converging under the digital hegemony of a few big companies. that self-improve through experience.
I work on embodied AI and robotic manipulation — toward autonomous systems that learn from their own experience and help with everyday tasks, without a human in the loop.
The Ideal — an embodied analogue of the three-stage recipe behind GPT
01
Native Multimodal Pretraining
≈ pretraining · compress knowledge
→
02
Policy Extraction
≈ post-training · extract knowledge
→
03
Align with Real-World
≈ alignment · to the final goal
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step | 千里之行，始于足下
01 / Training
Action Modeling
Chain-of-Action
→
02 / Post-Training
SFT Strategies
Effective Tuning
→
03 / Deployment
Test-Time Training
TTT-VLA
↻ Data Flywheel
↻ closes the data flywheel → training
02 Post-Training · SFT Strategies
ICRA / 2025
Effective Tuning Strategies for Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies
03 Deployment · Test-Time Training
Preprint / 2026
TTT-VLA: Test-Time Latent Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Profile / CV
Experience
Research Intern · Beijing, CN · mentor: Xiao Ma
Ph.D. Candidate · Adelaide, AU
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Research Intern · Shanghai, CN
SenseTime Research
Research Intern · CN
Sichuan University
M.Eng., Computer Science · Chengdu, CN
Service & Talks
ICCV VCL Challenges
Visual Continual Learning challenge
Chain-of-Action: Trajectory Autoregressive Modeling for Robotic Manipulation
Lumina Embodied AI & RL China
Student Representative Speech, Commencement Ceremony
Graduate School of Computer Science, Sichuan University
CONFERENCE / JOURNAL REVIEWER
Awards
Adelaide Research Scholarship
University of Adelaide
China National Scholarship
Ministry of Education, China
China Graduate AI Innovation Competition — Huawei Special Award & 2nd Prize
Ministry of Education, China
Top 100 Students
Sichuan University
Outstanding Graduation Thesis
Sichuan University
