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Zhi Wang

Publications 16

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RealtimeWAM: How Fast Can I Run My World Action Model?

Huanan Liu, Ye Li, Kangye Ji et al. · 2026

World Action Models (WAMs) combine visual dynamics modeling with action generation, but their high inference latency limits responsive robot control. Recent efforts accelerate inference by removing explicit future-video generation at test time, as in FastWAM, an approach that requires a specially tailored architectural …

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CurvSpec: Adaptive Multi-Curvature Learning for Partial Relevant Video Retrieval

Zhen Liu, Letian Li, Jinpeng Wang et al. · 2026 · 10.1145/3767308.3835167

Partially Relevant Video Retrieval (PRVR) seeks to retrieve untrim-med videos containing a moment that matches a text query, without temporal annotations. The relevant moment may last only seconds within a video spanning several minutes, creating an extremely low signal-to-noise ratio that makes PRVR more challenging t …

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CoDimRecon: Agentic Reconstruction of Sim-Ready 3D Scenes with Deformable Curves, Surfaces, and Volumes

Shuzhao Xie, Lelin Wang, Guying Lin et al. · 2026

Reconstructing simulation-ready 3D scenes from real-world observations enables robotics, gaming, and immersive applications, yet existing methods largely assume rigid objects. This leaves an important gap for deformables, whose simulation-ready geometry depends on dimensionality (curves, surfaces, or volumes) and whose …

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Weaponizing Ground Truth: Data Poisoning Attacks by Exploiting Boundary Misalignment Between Antivirus Software and Learning-Based Detectors

Jieshuai Yang, Zhi Wang, Yan Jia et al. · 2026

Machine-learning (ML)-based malware detectors are commonly trained using labels obtained from antivirus (AV) engines and aggregation services (e.g., VirusTotal). This practice assumes AV-generated labels provide reliable supervision. However, small byte-level modifications can substantially alter AV verdicts while leav …

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HarnessPAI: An Evolving Harness for Physical AI

Xin Wang, Wenhao Wu, Menghao Zhang et al. · 2026

Physical AI aims to build embodied agents that perceive the world, understand and reason about it, and decide how to act. Yet the field has focused primarily on the last component: the action model that maps observations to low-level controls. The prevailing training recipe can erode the perceptual and reasoning capabi …

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