Research · Generative modeling · Representation learning

Zihao Pan

I am an undergraduate student at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU).

My research interests mainly revolve around generative modeling and representation learning.

I am always open to research discussions and collaborations : )

News

Dec. 2025
Starting internship at Alibaba!
Nov. 2025
One paper is accepted by AAAI 2026

Selected Publications

Guiding a Pixel Diffusion Transformer paper thumbnail

Guiding a Pixel Diffusion Transformer with the Learned Representation of Itself

Zihao Pan, Taihang Hu, Mengting Chen, Zhengrong Yue, Tao Liu, Zhangquan Chen, Manyuan Zhang, Jinsong Lan, Xiaoyong Zhu, Zeke Xie, Bo Zheng

arXiv, 2026

Coming Soon

Prior-Aligned Autoencoders for Latent Diffusion paper thumbnail

What Matters for Diffusion-Friendly Latent Manifold? Prior-Aligned Autoencoders for Latent Diffusion

Zhengrong Yue, Taihang Hu, Mengting Chen, Haiyu Zhang, Zihao Pan, Tao Liu, Zikang Wang, Jinsong Lan, Xiaoyong Zhu, Bo Zheng, Yali Wang

arXiv, 2026

Paper Code Model Project

Continuous-Time Distribution Matching for Few-Step Diffusion Distillation paper thumbnail

Continuous-Time Distribution Matching for Few-Step Diffusion Distillation

Tao Liu, Hao Yan, Mengting Chen, Taihang Hu, Zhengrong Yue, Zihao Pan, Jinsong Lan, Xiaoyong Zhu, Ming-Ming Cheng, Bo Zheng, Yaxing Wang

arXiv, 2026

Paper Code Model Project

X2Edit paper thumbnail

X2Edit: Revisiting Arbitrary-Instruction Image Editing through Self-Constructed Data and Task-Aware Representation Learning

Jian Ma, Xujie Zhu, Zihao Pan, Qirong Peng, Xu Guo, Chen Chen, Haonan Lu

AAAI, 2026

Paper Data Code Model

Experience

Alibaba

Taobao & Tmall Group · Research

Representation alignment (REPA) and pixel-space diffusion model.

Dec. 2025 – Present

Meituan

LongCat Team · Research

Unified multimodal modeling.

Sep. 2025 – Dec. 2025