ActQuant: Sub-4-bit Action-Guided Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models

Arash Akbari^†, Arman Akbari, Masih Eskandar, Qitao Tan, Yixiao Chen, Jingwu Luo, Bertha Pangaribuan, Liyun Zhang, Jennifer Dy, Geng Yuan, Xue Lin, Gaowen Liu, Stratis Ioannidis, Yanzhi Wang

NeurIPS 2026  |  Paper

HiD²: A Trajectory Generator for High-Density Traffic and Diverse Agent-Interaction Scenarios

Ruining Yang, Yi Xu, Yixiao Chen, Yun Fu, Lili Su

IROS 2026  |  Paper

Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving: A Unified View

Ruining Yang^*, Muxing Wang^*, Yixiao Chen, Tongfei Guo, Yi Xu, Can Cui, Zichong Yang, Yitian Zhang, Ziran Wang, Yun Fu, Lili Su

🏆 Best Paper Award, ECCV 2026 DriveX Workshop

ECCV 2026 Workshop  |  Paper  | 

Hydra: Phase-Aware Workload Characterization of LLM Inference across Edge SoC Generations, Backends, and Quantization Levels

Amir Taherin, Sana Taghipour Anvari, Charles Amante, Yixiao Chen, Ruben Noroian, Zlatan Feric, Nicolas Bohm Agostini, Pu Zhao, José Cano, Bin Ren, Yanzhi Wang, David Kaeli

IISWC 2026  |  Paper

Effective MoE-based LLM Compression by Exploiting Heterogeneous Inter-Group Experts Routing Frequency and Information Density

Zhendong Mi, Yixiao Chen, Pu Zhao, Xiaodong Yu, Hao Wang, Yanzhi Wang, Shaoyi Huang^†

ICML 2026  |  Paper

Flash-WAM: Modality-Aware Distillation for World Action Models

Arman Akbari^†, Ci Zhang, Arash Akbari, Lin Zhao, Yixiao Chen, Weiwei Chen, Xuan Zhang, Geng Yuan, Yanzhi Wang

arXiv  |  Paper  |  Project

Human Cognition in Machines: A Unified Perspective of World Models

Timothy Rupprecht^*†, Pu Zhao^*, Amir Taherin^*, Arash Akbari^*, Arman Akbari^*, Yumei He^*, Tooba Imtiaz^*, Sean Duffy, Juyi Lin, Yixiao Chen, Rahul Chowdhury, Enfu Nan, Yixin Shen, Yifan Cao, Haochen Zeng, Weiwei Chen, Geng Yuan, Jennifer Dy, Sarah Ostadabbas, Xuan Zhang, David Kaeli, Edmund Yeh, Yanzhi Wang^†

arXiv  |  Paper

Are VLMs Ready for Lane Topology Awareness in Autonomous Driving?

Xin Chen, Jia He, Maozheng Li, Dongliang Xu^†, Tianyu Wang, Yixiao Chen, Zhixin Lin, Yue Yao^†

ICASSP 2026  |  Paper  | 

Collaborative Compression for Large-Scale MoE Deployment on Edge

Yixiao Chen, Yanyue Xie, Ruining Yang, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Yong He, Yue Chen, Pu Zhao^†, Yanzhi Wang

ICASSP 2026  |  Paper

From Static to Dynamic: a Survey of Topology-Aware Perception in Autonomous Driving

Yixiao Chen^*, Ruining Yang^*, Xin Chen, Jia He, Dongliang Xu^†, Yue Yao^†

ICCV 2025 WDFM-AD  |  Paper

Unsupervised Search for Ethnic Minorities' Disc-Cup Segmentation Training Set

Yixiao Chen, Yue Yao^†, Ruining Yang, Md Zakir Hossain, Ashu Gupta, Tom Gedeon

ICASSP 2025  |  Paper