Boqiang Zhang 张博强

About Me

I hold a Master's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where I worked under the guidance of Prof. Hongtao Xie. I completed my Bachelor's degree at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU).

My current research interests focus on vision-language-action (VLA) models, vision language models (VLM) and unified understanding and generation. Earlier in my career, I concentrated on scene text recognition and editing, exploring both self-supervised and semi-supervised learning approaches.

Publications & Preprints

Penguin-VL: Exploring the Efficiency Limits of VLM with LLM-based Vision Encoders

Boqiang Zhang, Lei Ke, Ruihan Yang, Qi Gao, Tianyuan Qu, Rossell Chen, Dong Yu, Leoweiliang

ArXiv, 2026

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N3D-VLM: Native 3D Grounding Enables Accurate Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

Yuxin Wang, Lei Ke, Boqiang Zhang, Tianyuan Qu, Hanxun Yu, Zhenpeng Huang, Meng Yu, Dan Xu, Dong Yu

ArXiv, 2026

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VideoLLaMA 3: Frontier Multimodal Foundation Models for Image and Video Understanding

Boqiang Zhang, Kehan Li, Zesen Cheng, Zhiqiang Hu, Yuqian Yuan, Guanzheng Chen, Sicong Leng, Yuming Jiang, Hang Zhang, Xin Li, Peng Jin, Wenqi Zhang, Fan Wang, Lidong Bing, Deli Zhao

ArXiv, 2025

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MMR1: Enhancing Multimodal Reasoning with Variance-Aware Sampling and Open Resources

Sicong Leng, Jing Wang, Jiaxi Li, Hao Zhang, Zhiqiang Hu, Boqiang Zhang, Hang Zhang, Yuming Jiang, Xin Li, Deli Zhao, Fan Wang, Yu Rong, Aixin Sun, Shijian Lu

CVPR, 2026

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Videorefer suite: Advancing spatial-temporal object understanding with video llm

Yuqian Yuan, Hang Zhang, Wentong Li, Zesen Cheng, Boqiang Zhang, Long Li, Xin Li, Deli Zhao, Wenqiao Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Jianke Zhu, Lidong Bing

CVPR, 2025

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How Control Information Influences Multilingual Text Image Generation and Editing?

Boqiang Zhang, Zuan Gao, Yadong Qu, Hongtao Xie*

NeurIPS, 2024

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Choose What You Need: Disentangled Representation Learning for Scene Text Recognition Removal and Editing

Boqiang Zhang, Hongtao Xie*, Zuan Gao, Yuxin Wang

CVPR, 2024

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Linguistic more: Taking a further step toward efficient and accurate scene text recognition

Boqiang Zhang, Hongtao Xie*, Yuxin Wang, Jianjun Xu, Yongdong Zhang

IJCAI, 2023

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Symmetrical linguistic feature distillation with clip for scene text recognition

Zixiao Wang, Hongtao Xie*, Yuxin Wang, Jianjun Xu, Boqiang Zhang, Yongdong Zhang

ACM MM, 2023

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Self-Supervised Pre-training with Symmetric Superimposition Modeling for Scene Text Recognition

Zuan Gao, Yuxin Wang*, Yadong Qu, Boqiang Zhang, Zixiao Wang, Jianjun Xu, Hongtao Xie

IJCAI, 2024

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Focus on the Whole Character: Discriminative Character Modeling for Scene Text Recognition

Bangbang Zhou, Yadong Qu, Zixiao Wang, Zicheng Li, Boqiang Zhang, Hongtao Xie*

IJCAI, 2024

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Working Experience

• 
  Tencent AI Lab | ShenZhen | Jul. 2025 - Present

  Senior Research Engineer

  Topic: Multi-modal Large Language Model, Image/Video Understanding and Generation
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  Alibaba DAMO Academy | Hangzhou | Jun. 2024 - Jul. 2025

  Research Intern

  Topic: Multi-modal Large Language Model, Image/Video Understanding, Embodied AI

  Mentor: Xin Li, Lidong Bing

Services

• Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS, ACM MM, ICLR, ICML, TMM

Honors

• Outstanding Graduate of USTC and Province Anhui, 2025
• HuaWei Scholarship, 2023
• Outstanding Graduate of NWPU, 2022 (top 5%)
• National Scholarship, 2024, 2021, 2020, 2019
• Outstanding Student of NWPU, 2020 (top 1%)