I am a PhD student at Fudan University and Shanghai Innovation Institute, advised by Prof. Li Zhang. Prior to that, I received my Bachelor’s degree from Sun Yat-sen University. My research focuses on post-training embodied AI models, particularly through DAgger and reinforcement learning, as well as tactile perception and learning.

I work closely with my senior labmates Junzhe Jiang and Jingyu Li.

🔥 News

  • 2026.10:  🎉🎉 Forward Dynamics Models (FDM) is now available on arXiv, with code and a project page.
  • 2026.09:  🎉🎉 TacPAC is now available on arXiv.
  • 2026.07:  🎉🎉 DriveWeaver has been accepted by ECCV 2026.
  • 2026.05:  🎉🎉 MoLA has been accepted by ICML 2026.
  • 2025.06:  🎉🎉 BézierGS has been accepted by ICCV 2025.

📝 Publications

arXiv 2026
FDM pipeline: future prediction supervises action features during training, while inference skips future generation

Forward Dynamics Models

Zipei Ma, Junzhe Jiang, Jiahui Zhang, Juntong Zhang, Chun Gu, Bozhou Zhang, Jiankang Deng, Xiatian Zhu, Li Zhang

arXiv Project Code

  • TL;DR: We introduce FDM, which uses action-conditioned future prediction to supervise robotic policies during training and skips future generation at inference, achieving 99.4% average success on LIBERO and absolute gains of up to 13% on real-world tasks.
arXiv 2026
TacPAC pipeline

TacPAC: Tactile Prediction and Real-Time Action Correction in World-Action Models for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Zipei Ma, Xiaofei Wei, Junzhe Jiang, Shunlin Lu, Li Zhang

arXiv Code

  • TL;DR: We introduce TacPAC, which uses cached tactile predictions to interpret incoming touch and correct unexecuted actions in real time, improving average success from 22% to 64% across five contact-rich real-robot tasks.
Tech Report 2026
N0-TWAM teaser

$\mathcal{N}_0$-TWAM: Scaling Tactile-Native World Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

NeoteAI Team & Fudan TEAI Team

arXiv Project Code

  • TL;DR: We introduce $\mathcal{N}_0$-TWAM, a tactile-native world-action model that jointly predicts future vision, touch, and actions, enabling stronger contact-rich manipulation through large-scale visuo-tactile pretraining.
Tech Report 2026
N0-Foundation teaser

$\mathcal{N}_0$-Foundation: Towards the Age of Tactile Intelligence

NeoteAI Team & Fudan TEAI Team

arXiv Project Dataset

  • TL;DR: We present $\mathcal{N}_0$-Foundation, a tactile-centric foundation that unifies scalable sensing hardware, large-scale multimodal data, transferable tactile representations, and standardized real-world and simulated evaluation.
ECCV 2026
DriveWeaver pipeline

DriveWeaver: Point-Conditioned Video Inpainting for Controllable Vehicle Insertion in Autonomous Driving Simulation

Junzhe Jiang, Zipei Ma, Zijie Pan, Li Zhang†

arXiv Code

  • TL;DR: We propose DriveWeaver, a point-cloud-conditioned video inpainting framework that inserts controllable, temporally consistent vehicles and extracts their 3D Gaussian representations for real-time autonomous driving simulation.
arXiv 2026
Metis framework

Metis: A Generalizable and Efficient World-Action Model for Autonomous Driving and Urban Navigation

Jingyu Li*, Zhe Liu*, Dongnan Hu, Junjie Wu, Zipei Ma, Wenxiao Wu, Chao Han, Zhihui Hao, Zhikang Liu, Kun Zhan, Jiankang Deng, Xiatian Zhu, Li Zhang†

arXiv Code

  • TL;DR: We introduce Metis, an efficient world-action model that decouples video generation and action prediction through specialized transformer experts and asymmetric attention, retaining world-model supervision during training while bypassing video generation at inference.
ICML 2026
MoLA pipeline

From Imagined Futures to Executable Actions: Mixture of Latent Actions for Robot Manipulation

Yajie Li*, Bozhou Zhang*, Chun Gu, Zipei Ma, Jiahui Zhang, Jiankang Deng, Xiatian Zhu, Li Zhang

arXiv Project Code

  • TL;DR: We introduce MoLA, which transforms imagined future videos into executable representations through a mixture of pretrained inverse dynamics models, achieving consistent gains in simulation and real-world robot manipulation.
arXiv 2025
ProphRL thumbnail

Reinforcing Action Policies by Prophesying

Jiahui Zhang*, Ze Huang*, Chun Gu, Zipei Ma, Li Zhang†

arXiv Project Code

  • TL;DR: We introduce ProphRL, which learns a reusable action-to-video world model and a flow-aware RL post-training strategy to improve VLA policies efficiently, delivering strong gains in both simulation and real-robot tasks.
ICCV 2025
BézierGS pipeline

BézierGS: Dynamic Urban Scene Reconstruction with Bézier Curve Gaussian Splatting

Zipei Ma*, Junzhe Jiang*, Yurui Chen, Li Zhang†

arXiv Code

  • TL;DR: We propose a method that models object motion using Bézier curves, achieving accurate reconstruction and effective foreground-background separation.

🎓 Academic Service

  • Conference Reviewer: ICML, AAAI

📖 Educations

  • 2025.06 - Present, Fudan University & SII
  • 2021.09 - 2025.06, Sun Yat-sen University

🤣 Hobbies

  • 🏸 Badminton, ⚽️ Football(Visca el Barça! 💙❤️)
  • 🎮 Games(Soulslike, Multiplayer…)
  • 🎬 Movies, 🎵 Music