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Yinghua Zhou

Welcome! I am currently a CS master's student at Brown University.

I am currently interested in Embodied Intelligence, particularly large foundation models for generalist robot learning, such as World (Action) Models.

Prior to Brown, I completed my B.S. in Computer Science at Monash University and received my (first class) Honours degree in Computer Science from The University of Sydney.

💡 I am actively looking for research collaborations. Please feel free to drop me an email if interested, or just to say hi! 👋

Contact: zyinghua [at] brown [dot] edu

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Research

CLoRA: Exploring and Adapting Block-wise Functionalities in Video DiTs for Composable Personalization
Yinghua Zhou, Evan Luo
arXiv soon, 2026
paper / code

We find that certain transformer blocks in modern video DiTs could dominate content / style / motion, and we apply LoRA to these specific blocks to enable video personalization.

Goal Force: Teaching Video Models To Accomplish Physics-Conditioned Goals
Nate Gillman, Yinghua Zhou, Zitian Tang, Evan Luo, Arjan Chakravarthy, Daksh Aggarwal, Michael Freeman, Charles Herrmann, Chen Sun
CVPR, 2026
project page / arXiv / code

Goal Force specifies visual goals for video world models via explicit force vectors; trained only on synthetic causal primitives, it generalizes zero-shot to real-world scenes as an implicit neural physics simulator.


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