Sixian Zhang 张思贤

Assistant Researcher, Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Biography

Sixian Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 2025, under the supervision of Shuqiang Jiang (蒋树强) (Professor at the UCAS), and Xinhang Song (宋新航) (Associate Professor at ICT, CAS). Since July 2025, he has been an Assistant Researcher (Post-doc Fellow) at the State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, ICT, CAS. His research interests include embodied AI and visual navigation. He has received several awards, including the CAS President Award, the Excellent Graduate of Beijing Award, and the Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program.

张思贤，中国科学院计算技术研究所特别研究助理（合作导师：蒋树强研究员）。 长期从事具身智能、视觉导航等方向的研究，发表论文20余篇， 其中以第一作者在CCF/CAAI推荐A类会议/期刊发表论文10篇（包括IEEE TPAMI、CVPR、ICCV、ECCV）。 获2025博士后创新人才支持计划支持，中科院院长优秀奖，北京市优秀毕业生等。 学术服务方面，担任IEEE T-RO、CVPR、ICCV、NeurIPS、ICLR、ICML等CCF-A类会议审稿人。

Selected Journal Papers

• Sixian Zhang, Xinhang Song, Xinyao Yu, Yubing Bai, Xinlong Guo, Weijie Li, Shuqiang Jiang. HOZ++: Versatile Hierarchical Object-to-Zone Graph for Object Navigation[J]. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025, 47(7): 5958–5975. [PDF]
• Shuqiang Jiang, Sixian Zhang, Shida Tao, Xihong Zhu, Tianliang Qi, Xinhang Song. Self Model for Embodied Artificial Intelligence[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2026: 1-16. [PDF]
• 张思贤，余欣瑶，宋新航，王翼遥，蒋树强. 面向具身目标导航的序列扩散规划器研究[J].计算机学报, 2025(9): 2030-2048.

Selected Conference Papers

• Keming Zhang, Sixian Zhang†, Xinhang Song, Hongyu Wang, Yiyao Wang, Yingjie Wang, Shuqiang Jiang. Joint Navigation and Manipulation Planning with 3D Interaction Chains[C]. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 2026. (Accept). [PDF]
• Sixian Zhang, Yiyao Wang, Xinhang Song, Keming Zhang, Zijian Xu, Shuqiang Jiang. Multi-Scale Gaussian-Language Map for Embodied Navigation and Reasoning[C]. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2026:37086-37097. (Highlight，录用率3.6%) [PDF]
• Yiyao Wang, Sixian Zhang, Keming Zhang, Xinhang Song, Songjie Du, Shuqiang Jiang. TrajRAG: Retrieving Geometric-Semantic Experience for Zero-Shot Object Navigation[C]. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2026:15166-15176. [PDF]
• Sixian Zhang, Xinyao Yu, Xinhang Song, Yiyao Wang, Shuqiang Jiang. Function-centric Bayesian Network for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation[C]. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision (ICCV). 2025:19535-19545. [PDF]
• Xiaorong Qin, Xinhang Song, Sixian Zhang, Xinyao Yu, Xinmiao Zhang, Shuqiang Jiang. Learning on the Go: A Meta-learning Object Navigation Model[C]. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision (ICCV). 2025:8939-8949. [PDF]
• Xinyao Yu*, Sixian Zhang*, Xinhang Song, Xiaorong Qin, Shuqiang Jiang. Trajectory Diffusion for ObjectGoal Navigation[C]. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 2024: 110388-110411. [PDF]
• Sixian Zhang, Xinyao Yu, Xinhang Song, Xiaohan Wang, Shuqiang Jiang. Imagine Before Go: Self-supervised Generative Map for Object Goal Navigation[C]. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2024: 16414-16425. [PDF]
• Sixian Zhang*, Bohan Wang*, Junqiang Wu*, Yan Li, Tingting Gao, Di Zhang, Zhongyuan Wang. Learning Multi-Dimensional Human Preference for Text-to-Image Generation[C]. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2024: 8018-8027. [PDF]
• Xiaohan Wang, Yuehu Liu, Xinhang Song, Yuyi Liu, Sixian Zhang, Shuqiang Jiang. An Interactive Navigation Method with Effect-oriented Affordance[C]. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2024: 16446-16456. [PDF]
• Sixian Zhang, Xinhang Song, Weijie Li, Yubing Bai, Xinyao Yu, Shuqiang Jiang. Layout-based Causal Inference for Object Navigation[C]. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2023: 10792-10802. [PDF]
• Yubing Bai, Xinhang Song, Weijie Li, Sixian Zhang, Shuqiang Jiang. Long-Short Term Policy for Visual Object Navigation[C]. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2023: 9035-9042. [PDF]
• Sixian Zhang, Weijie Li, Xinhang Song, Yubing Bai, Shuqiang Jiang. Generative Meta-Adversarial Network for Unseen Object Navigation[C]. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022: 301-320. [PDF]
• Sixian Zhang, Xinhang Song, Yubing Bai, Weijie Li, Yakui Chu, Shuqiang Jiang. Hierarchical Object-to-zone Graph for Object Navigation[C]. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision (ICCV). 2021: 15130-15140. [PDF]
• Weijie Li, Xinhang Song, Yubing Bai, Sixian Zhang, Shuqiang Jiang. ION: Instance-level Object Navigation[C]. Proceedings of the 29th ACM international conference on multimedia (ACM MM). 2021: 4343-4352. [PDF]
• Xinhang Song, Haitao Zeng, Sixian Zhang, Luis Herranz, Shuqiang Jiang. Generalized Zero-shot Learning with Multi-source Semantic Embeddings for Scene Recognition[C]. Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM). 2020: 3976-3985. [PDF]
• Xinhang Song, Sixian Zhang, Yuyun Hua, Shuqiang Jiang. Aberrance-aware Gradient-sensitive Attentions for Scene Recognition with RGB-D Videos[C]. Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on multimedia (ACM MM). 2019: 1286-1294. [PDF]

Projects & Fundings

• 2025 Postdoctoral Innovative Talents Support Program (博士后创新人才支持计划)

Honors & Awards

• 2025 CAS President Award (Excellent Prize) (中国科学院院长优秀奖)
• 2025 中国科学院计算所“新百星”
• 2025 Excellent Graduate of Beijing (北京市优秀毕业生)
• 2023 National Scholarship（国家奖学金）
• CVPR 2021 Embodied AI目标导航竞赛冠军