Zhidong Deng
Zhidong Deng is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, where he has served since 2000, and is the director of the Visual Intelligence Research Center at the Tsinghua University Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He received his Ph.D. from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1991 and has authored or co-authored more than 290 papers and 5 books. His current research covers artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, self-driving cars, and advanced robotics, with recent work including vision-language-action models for robotic control such as XS-VLA.
“XS-VLA achieves 90.3% average success with a 0.25B backbone, outperforming Vanilla SmolVLA-0.25B by 7.5 percentage points under the same evaluation protocol. It also surpasses Vanilla SmolVLA-2.25B despite using roughly one-ninth of the parameters”
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