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Yiran Qin

ROLE PROJECT LEADMENTIONS 3LAST SEEN JULY 26, 2026
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Yiran Qin is a Ph.D. student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and a visiting Ph.D. student at Oxford University. Her research focuses on embodied AI, multimodal large language models, and world models, with publications including MP5, a multi-modal open-ended embodied system in Minecraft, and a survey of interactive generative video. She has also published work on supervised LiDAR-camera fusion for 3D object detection and video generation models as world simulators.

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mention·arXiv Physical AI·JULY 26, 2026

Listed under "Project Lead" and "Pre-Training" in the Contributors section

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product·arXiv Physical AI·JULY 26, 2026

N0-VTLA is, by its own claim, the first vision-tactile-language-action model pretrained on tactile data at scale. The result: on a 20-task simulation suite, N0-VTLA reaches 63.8% mean success against 44.0% for the strongest baseline (π0.5), and wins all nine real-robot NeoReal tasks

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hire·arXiv Physical AI·JULY 26, 2026

Yiran Qin: Project Lead for N0-VTLA. Listed as contributor across pretraining, offline RL, and project leadership

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