About Me

Hi, I'm Chi Zhang (张驰).

"The study of vision must therefore include not only the study of how to extract from images the various aspects of the world that are useful to us, but also an inquiry into the nature of the internal reprensentations by which we capture this information and thus make it available as a basis for decisions about our thoughts and actions." ‐ David Marr

About Me

I'm Chi Zhang (张驰). I recently joined Peking University as an assistant professor, after a year of research at ByteDance Seed and a few wonderful ones at Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) as a full-time research scientist. Before that, I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Department of Computer Science, University of California - Los Angeles, advised by Professor Song-Chun Zhu.

My recent reseach interests include abstract reasoning, active reasoning and applied research for challenging problems.

I used to work with Professor Dit-Yan Yeung at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Professor Deng Cai at my alma mater, Zhejiang University.

I serve as

  • Conference reviewer: CVPR (from 2019), ICCV (from 2019), ECCV (from 2020), NeurIPS (from 2020), ICLR (from 2020), ICML (from 2021), AAAI (from 2020)
  • Journal reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), Psychological Review

CV / Email / GitHub / Google Scholar

Publications

Selected Publications
    All Publications
    • NarrativeLoom: Enhancing Creative Storytelling through Multi-Persona Collaborative Improvisation
      Yuxi Ma, Yongqian Peng, Fengyuan Yang, Siyu Zha, Chi Zhang, Zixia Jia, Zilong Zheng, Yixin Zhu
      CHI 2026
      Paper / Video / Project
    • Learning physics-grounded 4D dynamics with neural gaussian force fields
      Shiqian Li, Ruihong Shen, Junfeng Ni, Chang Pan, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu
      ICLR 2026
      Paper / Code / Dataset / Video / Project
    • Neural Force Field: Few-shot Learning of Generalized Physical Reasoning
      Shiqian Li, Ruihong Shen, Yaoyu Tao, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu
      ICLR 2026
      Paper / Code / Dataset / Video / Project
    • Proposing and solving olympiad geometry with guided tree search
      Chi Zhang, Jiajun Song, Siyu Li, Yitao Liang, Yuxi Ma, Wei Wang, Yixin Zhu, Song-Chun Zhu
      Nature Machine Intelligence, Jan Issue, 2026
      Paper / Code / 新华社 / Xinhua News / 人民日报 / 人民网 / People's Daily / 科技日报
    • Heterogeneous Adversarial Play in Interactive Environments
      Manjie Xu, Xinyi Yang, Jiayu Zhan, Wei Liang, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu
      NeurIPS 2025
      Paper / Code / Poster / Video / Project
    • Seed-Prover: Deep and Broad Reasoning for Automated Theorem Proving
      ByteDance Seed AI4Math
      Tech report, July, 2025
      Paper / Code
    • Probing and inducing combinational creativity in vision-language models
      Yongqian Peng, Yuxi Ma, Mengmeng Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Yizhou Wang, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu, Zilong Zheng
      CogSci 2025
      Paper / Code / Dataset / Video / Project / 量子位
    • A simulation-heuristics dual-process model for intuitive physics
      Shiqian Li, Yuxi Ma, Jiajun Yan, Bo Dai, Yujia Peng, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu
      CogSci 2025
      Paper / Code / Video / Poster / Dataset
    • Human-level few-shot concept induction through minimax entropy learning
      Chi Zhang, Baoxiong Jia, Yixin Zhu, Song-Chun Zhu
      Science Advances, Vol 10, Issue 16, 2024
      Paper / 人民日报 / 新华网 / 光明网 / 科技日报
    • I-PHYRE: Interactive Physical Reasoning
      Shiqian Li, Kewen Wu, Chi Zhang,Yixin Zhu
      ICLR 2024
      Paper / Code / Video / Poster / Project / 北大AI院
    • Active Reasoning in an Open-World Environment
      Manjie Xu, Guangyuan Jiang, Wei Liang, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu
      NeurIPS 2023
      Paper / Code / Supp / Poster / Project
    • Evaluating and Inducing Personality in Pre-trained Language Models
      Guangyuan Jiang*, Manjie Xu*, Song-Chun Zhu, Wenjuan Han, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu
      NeurIPS 2023
      Spotlight
      Paper / Supp / Poster
    • Interactive Visual Reasoning under Uncertainty
      Manjie Xu*, Guangyuan Jiang*, Wei Liang, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu
      NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks
      Paper / Code / Supp / Poster / Project
    • X-VoE: Measuring eXplanatory Violation of Expectation in Physical Events
      Bo Dai, Linge Wang, Baoxiong Jia, Zeyu Zhang, Song-Chun Zhu, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu
      ICCV 2023
      Oral
      Paper / Code / Supp / Poster / Dataset / Project
    • MEWL: Few-shot multimodal word learning with referential uncertainty
      Guangyuan Jiang, Xanjie Xu, Shiji Xin, Wei Liang, Yujia Peng, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu
      ICML 2023
      Paper / Code / Project
    • Brain in a vat: On missing pieces towards artificial general intelligence in large language models
      Yuxi Ma, Chi Zhang, Song-Chun Zhu
      Opinion, July, 2023
      Paper
    • On the Learning Mechanisms in Physical Reasoning
      Shiqian Li*, Kewen Wu*, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu
      NeurIPS 2022
      Spotlight
      Paper / Poster / Code / Project / Media: Institute for AI, PKU
    • Learning Algebraic Representation for Systematic Generalization in Abstract Reasoning
      Chi Zhang*, Sirui Xie*, Baoxiong Jia*, Ying Nian Wu, Song-Chun Zhu, Yixin Zhu
      ECCV 2022
      Paper / Supp / Poster / Code / Dataset / Blog / Project / Media: Institute for AI, PKU / Media: PKU News / Media: PKU Weibo
    • DETR++: Taming Your Multi-Scale Detection Transformer
      Chi Zhang, Lijuan Liu, Xiaoxue Zang, Frederick Liu, Hao Zhang, Xinying Song, Jindong Chen
      T4V: Transformers for Vision @ CVPR 2022.
      Paper / Poster
    • ACRE: Abstract Causal REasoning Beyond Covariation
      Chi Zhang, Baoxiong Jia, Mark Edmonds, Song-Chun Zhu, Yixin Zhu
      CVPR 2021
      Paper / Supp / Poster / Code / Dataset / Blog / Project
    • Abstract Spatial-Temporal Reasoning via Probabilistic Abduction and Execution
      Chi Zhang*, Baoxiong Jia*, Song-Chun Zhu, Yixin Zhu
      CVPR 2021
      Paper / Supp / Poster / Code / Blog / Project
    • Congestion-aware Multi-agent Trajectory Prediction for Collision Avoidance
      Xu Xie, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu, Ying Nian Wu, Song-Chun Zhu
      ICRA 2021
      Paper / Demo / Code / Project
    • Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense
      Yixin Zhu, Tao Gao, Lifeng Fan, Siyuan Huang, Mark Edmonds, Hangxin Liu, Feng Gao, Chi Zhang, Siyuan Qi, Ying Nian Wu, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Song-Chun Zhu
      Engineering, Volume 6, Issue 3
      Paper / Link / Media: Engineering
    • Machine Number Sense: A Dataset of Visual Arithmetic Problems for Abstract and Relational Reasoning
      Wenhe Zhang, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu, Song-Chun Zhu
      AAAI 2020
      Oral
      Paper / Poster / Code / Dataset (Google Drive) / Dataset (BaiduNetdisk) / Project
    • Learning Perceptual Inference by Contrasting
      Chi Zhang*, Baoxiong Jia*, Feng Gao, Yixin Zhu, Hongjing Lu, Song-Chun Zhu
      NeurIPS 2019
      Spotlight (2.43% acceptance rate)
      Paper / Slides / Poster / Code / Blog / Project
    • Learning Virtual Grasp with Failed Demonstrations via Bayesian Inverse Reinforcement Learning
      Xu Xie*, Changyang Li*, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu, Song-Chun Zhu
      IROS 2019
      Paper / Demo / Code / Project
    • RAVEN: A Dataset for Relational and Analogical Visual rEasoNing
      Chi Zhang*, Feng Gao*, Baoxiong Jia, Yixin Zhu, Song-Chun Zhu
      CVPR 2019
      Paper / Supp / Poster / Code / Dataset / Blog / Project / Media: Synced
    • MetaStyle: Three-Way Trade-Off Among Speed, Flexibility, and Quality in Neural Style Transfer
      Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu, Song-Chun Zhu
      AAAI 2019
      Paper / Supp / Slides / Poster / Demo / Code / Blog / Project
    • Mirroring without Overimitation: Learning Functionally Equivalent Manipulation Actions
      Hangxin Liu, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu, Chenfanfu Jiang, Song-Chun Zhu
      AAAI 2019
      Paper / Blog
    • Learning Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Control for Autonomous Target Following
      Siyi Li, Tianbo Liu, Chi Zhang, Dit-Yan Yeung, Shaojie Shen
      IJCAI 2018
      Paper / Blog
    • Question Retrieval for Community-based Question Answering via Heterogeneous Social Influential Network
      Zheqian Chen, Chi Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Chengwei Yao, Deng Cai
      Neurocomputing, Volume 285
      Paper / Blog
    • A Method of Exact 3D Modeling Based on Natural Gestures via Data Gloves (in Chinese)
      Xiangdong Li, Sihong Lv, Yikun Wang, Xiaowo Sun, Chi Zhang
      Patent publication number: CN104778746 B
      Link

    Education

    • Ph.D. in Computer Science

      09.2017 - Summer 2022 | Los Angeles, California, USA

      University of California, Los Angeles

    • Master of Science in Computer Science

      09.2017 - 03.2019 | Los Angeles, California, USA

      University of California, Los Angeles

    • Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

      09.2013 - 06.2017 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

      Zhejiang University
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