Silong Yong

I am a Ph.D. student in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University advised by Prof. Katia Sycara. Previously, I got my Master's degree in Robotics from CMU in 2025 and my Bachelor's degree in Automation from Tsinghua University in 2023.

My research interests lie in 3D computer vision, robotics and graphics. Specifically, I am interested in designing algorithms that model the 3D world in a more natural and sophisticated way, benefitting downstream usages such as robotics and graphics.

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Research
ONLY: One-Layer Intervention Sufficiently Mitigates Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
Zifu Wan*, Ce Zhang*, Silong Yong, Martin Q. Ma, Simon Stepputtis, Louis-Philippe Morency, Deva Ramanan, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie

ICCV 2025

[arXiv preprint]   [Code]  
OMG: Opacity Matters in Material Modeling with Gaussian Splatting
Silong Yong, Venkata Nagarjun Pudureddiyur Manivannan, Bernhard Kerbl, Zifu Wan, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie

ICLR 2025

[arXiv preprint]   [Code]  
GL-NeRF: Gauss-Laguerre Quadrature Enables Training-Free NeRF Acceleration
Silong Yong, Yaqi Xie, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara

NeurIPS 2024
CVPR 2024 Workshop on Neural Rendering Intelligence

[arXiv preprint]   [workshop version]   [Project]   [Code]
Aug3D: Augmenting Large Scale Outdoor Datasets for Generalizable Novel View Synthesis
Aditya Rauniyar*, Omar Alama*, Silong Yong, Katia Sycara, Sebastian Scherer,

IROS 2024 Workshop on Collecting, Managing and Utilizing Data through Embodied Robots

[paper]  
Sigma: Siamese Mamba Network for Multi-Modal Semantic Segmentation
Zifu Wan, Pingping Zhang, Yuhao Wang, Silong Yong, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara, Yaqi Xie

WACV 2025

[arXiv preprint]   [paper]   [Code]  
An Embodied Generalist Agent in 3D World
Jiangyong Huang*, Silong Yong*, Xiaojian Ma*, Xiongkun Linghu*, Puhao Li, Yan Wang, Qing Li, Song-Chun Zhu, Baoxiong Jia, Siyuan Huang

ICML 2024

[arXiv preprint]   [paper]   [Project]   [Code]  
SQA3D: Situated Question Answering in 3D Scenes
Xiaojian Ma*, Silong Yong*, Zilong Zheng, Qing Li, Yitao Liang, Song-Chun Zhu, Siyuan Huang

ICLR 2023

[arXiv preprint]   [paper]   [arXiv]   [Project]   [Code]  
A low-storage adjoint lattice Boltzmann method for the control of incompressible flows
Silong Yong, Weifeng Zhao,

Physics of Fluids, 2022

[paper]  
Experience
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2023.08 - Now

Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Prof. Katia Sycara
Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence(BIGAI), China
2021.09 - 2023.06

Research Intern
Advisor: Dr. Xiaojian Ma & Dr. Siyuan Huang
Tsinghua University, China
2019.08 - 2023.06

Undergraduate Student

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