Xiaokang (Koe) Ye

I am a Ph.D. student at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Lianhui Qin and Prof. Zhiting Hu. My research focuses on building agents that perceive, reason, and act in complex physical environments.

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Code4Scene: Benchmarking Coding Agents for Constructing and Editing 3D Scenes

Xiaokang Ye, Siddhant Hitesh Mantri, Zimeng Chen, Edward Zhang, Zhaoxu Zheng, Yuanheng Li, Yizhao Chen, Tianyang Huang, Lianhui Qin

Preprint · 2026

DeliveryGym: An RL Environment for Long-Horizon Embodied Agent Planning with Adaptive Curriculum

Haoqiang Kang, Yiming Zhang, Yiyang Guo, Chuying Li, Jianzhi Shen, Tianruo Rose Xu, Xiaokang Ye, Lianhui Qin

Preprint · 2026

SimWorld Studio: Automatic Environment Generation with Evolving Coding Agent for Embodied Agent Learning

Haoqiang Kang*, Xiaokang Ye*, Yuhan Liu, Siddhant Hitesh Mantri, Lingjun Mao, James Fleming, Drishti Regmi, Lianhui Qin

NeurIPS 2026Poster

SimWorld: An Open-ended Simulator for Agents in Physical and Social Worlds

Xiaokang Ye*, Jiawei Ren*, Yan Zhuang, Xuhong He, Yiming Liang, Yiqing Yang, Mrinaal Dogra, Xianrui Zhong, Eric Liu, Kevin Benavente, Rajiv Mandya Nagaraju, Dhruv Vivek Sharma, Ziqiao Ma, Tianmin Shu†, Zhiting Hu†, Lianhui Qin†

NeurIPS 2025Spotlight

SimWorld-Robotics: Synthesizing Photorealistic and Dynamic Urban Environments for Multimodal Robot Navigation and Collaboration

Yan Zhuang, Jiawei Ren*, Xiaokang Ye*, Jianzhi Shen, Ruixuan Zhang, Tianai Yue, Muhammad Faayez, Xuhong He, Xiyan Zhang, Ziqiao Ma, Lianhui Qin†, Zhiting Hu†, Tianmin Shu†

NeurIPS 2025

* Equal contribution · † Equal advising

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