Zhen Li

Zhen Li 「李祯」

I am currently a research intern at Alaya Lab, Shanda AI Research, working closely with Dr. Kaipeng Zhang. Prior to that, I obtained my Master's degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Yuwei Wu and Prof. Yunde Jia; and my Bachelor's degree from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2023.

My research interests lie in (1) interactive world models, and (2) the intersection of vision-and-language and compositional generalization.

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Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution. ^📧 indicates corresponding author.

	From Pixels to States: Rethinking Interactive World Models as Game Engines Zhen Li, Zian Meng, Shuwei Shi, Mingliang Zhai, Jiaming Tan, Chuanhao Li^📧, Kaipeng Zhang^📧 Arxiv, 2026.07 [Paper]
	Interactive Panoramic World Exploration via Camera Control Jiaming Tan, Zhen Li, Shuwei Shi, Minggui Teng, Siqi Yang, Bo Zheng, Yuwei Wu^📧, Kaipeng Zhang^📧, Chuanhao Li^📧 SIGGRAPH Asia, 2026
	AlayaWorld: Long-Horizon and Playable Video World Generation AlayaWorld Team (as a contributor) Arxiv, 2026.07 [Project Page] / [Intro Paper] / [Technical Report] / [Code]
	WildWorld: A Large-Scale Dataset for Dynamic World Modeling with Actions and Explicit State toward Generative ARPG Zhen Li, Zian Meng, Shuwei Shi, Wenshuo Peng, Bo Zheng, Yunde Jia, Yuwei Wu^📧, Chuanhao Li^📧, Kaipeng Zhang^📧 ECCV, 2026 [Project Page] / [Paper] / [Code]
	Surprise Forcing: What to Remember, When to Skip in Long Video Generation Shuwei Shi, Zhen Li, Muyao Niu, Chuanhao Li, Bo Zheng, Kaipeng Zhang^📧, Yinqiang Zheng^📧 ECCV, 2026 [Paper]
	OmniCustom: Sync Audio-Video Customization Via Joint Audio-Video Generation Model Maomao Li, Zhen Li, Kaipeng Zhang, Guosheng Yin, Zhifeng Li, Dong Xu Arxiv, 2026.02 [Project Page] / [Paper] / [Code]
	Yume1.5: A Text-Controlled Interactive World Generation Model Xiaofeng Mao, Zhen Li, Chuanhao Li, Xiaojie Xu, Kaining Ying, Tong He, Jiangmiao Pang, Yu Qiao, Kaipeng Zhang^📧 CVPR, 2026 [Project Page] / [Paper] / [Code]
	Composition-Incremental Learning for Compositional Generalization Zhen Li, Yuwei Wu, Chenchen Jing, Che Sun^📧, Chuanhao Li^📧, Yunde Jia AAAI, 2026 [Paper] / [Code]
	Sekai: A Video Dataset towards World Exploration Zhen Li, Chuanhao Li^📧, Xiaofeng Mao, Shaoheng Lin, Ming Li, Shitian Zhao, Zhaopan Xu, Xinyue Li, Yukang Feng, Jianwen Sun, Zizhen Li, Fanrui Zhang, Jiaxin Ai, Zhixiang Wang, Yuwei Wu^📧, Tong He, Jiangmiao Pang, Yu Qiao, Yunde Jia, Kaipeng Zhang^📧 NeurIPS, 2025 [Project Page] / [Paper] / [Code]
	Consistency of Compositional Generalization Across Multiple Levels Chuanhao Li, Zhen Li, Chenchen Jing^📧, Xiaomeng Fan, Wenbo Ye, Yuwei Wu^📧, Yunde Jia AAAI, 2025 [Paper] / [Code]
	Multi-Sourced Compositional Generalization in Visual Question Answering Chuanhao Li, Wenbo Ye, Zhen Li, Yuwei Wu^📧, Yunde Jia IJCAI, 2025 [Paper] / [Code]
	Compositional Substitutivity of Visual Reasoning for Visual Question Answering Chuanhao Li, Zhen Li, Chenchen Jing^📧, Yuwei Wu^📧, Mingliang Zhai, Yunde Jia ECCV, 2024 [Paper] / [Code]
	SearchLVLMs: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Augmenting Large Vision-Language Models by Searching Up-to-Date Internet Knowledge Chuanhao Li, Zhen Li, Chenchen Jing, Shuo Liu, Wenqi Shao, Yuwei Wu^📧, Ping Luo, Yu Qiao, Kaipeng Zhang^📧 NeurIPS, 2024 [Project Page] / [Paper] / [Code]
	In-Context Compositional Generalization for Large Vision-Language Models Chuanhao Li, Chenchen Jing, Zhen Li, Mingliang Zhai, Yuwei Wu^📧, Yunde Jia EMNLP, 2024 [Paper]
	Exploring the Effect of Primitives for Compositional Generalization in Vision-and-Language Chuanhao Li, Zhen Li, Chenchen Jing^📧, Yuwei Wu^📧, Yunde Jia CVPR, 2023 [Paper] / [Code]