Zilai Zeng

Hi! I'm a Ph.D. student at Brown University advised by the wonderful Prof. Chen Sun. Previously, I obtained my Master's degree from Brown University, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Chen Sun and Prof. Ellie Pavlick. Before that, I received my B.E. in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

My research interests span decision making, representation learning as well as generative modeling. Particularly, I'm interested in modeling structured world representations and transferring adaptable knowledge from foundation models to facilitate generalizable decision making.

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Email: zilai_zeng [at] brown [dot] edu

(* denotes equal contribution)


Solving New Tasks by Adapting Internet Video Knowledge

Calvin Luo*, Zilai Zeng*, Yilun Du, Chen Sun
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
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Text-Aware Diffusion for Policy Learning

Calvin Luo, Mandy He*, Zilai Zeng*, Chen Sun
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024
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Emergence of Abstract Representations in Embodied Sequence Modeling

Tian Yun*, Zilai Zeng*, Kunal Handa, Ashish V Thapliyal, Bo Pang, Ellie Pavlick, Chen Sun
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023
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Goal-Conditioned Predictive Coding for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Zilai Zeng, Ce Zhang, Shijie Wang, Chen Sun
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023
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