Updated 2026.10.09

Xintong Hu 胡鑫通

PhD student @ HKU

Research interests

Agentic Robot, vision-language-action models (VLA), and WAM.

Education

The University of Hong Kong

PhD, School of Computer and Data Science

Advisor: Prof. Tao Yu · XLANG Lab

2026.09 — present

Zhejiang University

B.S. in Computer Science and Technology

GPA 91.1/100 · Rank top 1% · IELTS 7.0 (L 7.5, R 7.0, W 6.0, S 7.5)

Advisor: Prof. Zhou Zhao

2022.09 — 2026.06

Internships & research

Alibaba · Qwen

Research Intern · Qwen-VL Team

Advisor: Shuai Bai. VLA and verifiable coding agents.

2026.01 — 2026.09

XLANG Lab, The University of Hong Kong

Research Assistant

Advisor: Prof. Tao Yu. VLA and WAM.

2025.06 — present

YiWise Lab, Zhejiang University

Research Assistant

Advisor: Prof. Zhou Zhao. Spatial audio.

2025.02 — 2025.06

VIPA Lab, Zhejiang University

Research Assistant

Advisor: Prof. Mingli Song. Recommendation.

2024.07 — 2025.02

Selected research

FineVLA first author

Fine-grained instruction alignment for steerable vision-language-action policies. NeurIPS 2026.

Qwen-VLA Core contributor

A unified embodied model across tasks, environments, and robot embodiments.

Qwen3.8 / Qwen3.9 coding data Pipeline

Verifiable coding data and rollout pipeline: real IDE logs turned into test-grounded training tasks.

Selected publications

* Equal contribution

  1. FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Xintong Hu*, Xuhong Huang*, Jinyu Zhang, Yutong Yao, Yuchong Sun, Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Sicheng Xie, Yitao Liu, Junhao Chen, Yixuan Chen, Yingming Zheng, Shuai Bai, Tao Yu

    NeurIPS 2026

  2. Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments

    Qwen Team (Xintong Hu is a core contributor)

    Technical Report 2026

  3. MRSAudio: A Large-Scale Multimodal Recorded Spatial Audio Dataset with Refined Annotations

    Wenxiang Guo*, Changhao Pan*, Zhiyuan Zhu*, Xintong Hu*, Yu Zhang*, Li Tang, Rui Yang, Han Wang, Zongbao Zhang, Yuhan Wang, Yixuan Chen, Hankun Xu, Ke Xu, Pengfei Fan, Zhetao Chen, Yanhao Yu, Qiange Huang, Fei Wu, Zhou Zhao†

    NeurIPS 2025

  4. Tree of Preferences for Diversified Recommendation

    Hanyang Yuan, Ning Tang, Tongya Zheng, Jiarong Xu, Xintong Hu, Renhong Huang, Shunyu Liu, Jiacong Hu, Jiawei Chen, Mingli Song†

    NeurIPS 2025

Honors & awards

  • 2025
    National Scholarship

    Top 1%

  • 2025
    First-Class Scholarship

    Zhejiang University · Top 3%

  • 2025
    Second Prize · IEEE ASRU AudioMos Challenge
  • 2024
    Shangde Scholar

    Zhejiang Province · single recipient

  • 2024
    Campus Star

    Zhejiang University, Computer Science · top 10 students

  • 2024
    National Scholarship

    Top 1%

  • 2024
    First-Class Scholarship

    Zhejiang University · Top 3%