Zihao Pan

I obtained my Bachelor's degree from Sun Yat-sen University in 2026, where I was advised by Prof. Sibei Yang.

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

I am always open to research discussions and collaborations

News

Sep. 2026
PAE and CDM are accepted by NeurIPS 2026
Dec. 2025
Starting internship at Alibaba!
Nov. 2025
One paper is accepted by AAAI 2026

Selected Publications

Representation Guidance paper thumbnail

Learning Representations to Guide Pixel Diffusion Transformers

Zihao Pan, Mengting Chen, Cheng Shi, Taihang Hu, Zhengrong Yue, Zikang Wang, Yuan Wang, Wei Li, Sibei Yang

Preprint, 2026

Paper Code Project

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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

NeurIPS, 2026

Paper Code Model Project

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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

NeurIPS, 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

Pixel-space diffusion models.

Dec. 2025 – Present

Meituan

LongCat Team · Research

Unified multimodal understanding and generation.

Sep. 2025 – Dec. 2025