Zixuan(sounds like “Six-one”) Xia

I am a second-year Master’s student in Computer Science at the University of Bern. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. My research interests lie in optimization algorithms in deep learning, Multi-task Learning based Multimodal Learning and its relevant applications, Reinforcement Learning and Generative Models.


Publications

COMPASS: Complete Multimodal Fusion via Proxy Tokens and Shared Spaces for Ubiquitous Sensing

COMPASS: Complete Multimodal Fusion via Proxy Tokens and Shared Spaces for Ubiquitous Sensing

Hao Wang*, Yanyu Qian*, Pengcheng Weng, Zixuan Xia, William Dan, Yangxin Xu, Fei Wang
arXiv, 2026

A missing-modality multimodal fusion framework that preserves a modality-complete fusion interface by synthesizing proxy tokens for absent modalities in a shared latent space.

When Gradient Optimization Is Not Enough: † Dispersive and Anchoring Geometric Regularizer for Multimodal Learning

When Gradient Optimization Is Not Enough: † Dispersive and Anchoring Geometric Regularizer for Multimodal Learning

Zixuan Xia*, Hao Wang*, Pengcheng Weng*, Yanyu Qian, Yangxin Xu, William Dan, Fei Wang
arXiv, 2026

A plug-and-play geometry-aware regularization framework for multimodal learning, encouraging intra-modal dispersion and inter-modal anchoring to mitigate representation collapse and cross-modal drift.

K-Score: Kalman Filter as a Principled Alternative to Reward Normalization in Reinforcement Learning

K-Score: Kalman Filter as a Principled Alternative to Reward Normalization in Reinforcement Learning

Zixuan Xia*, Quanxi Li*
NewInML Workshop, ICML 2025

A lightweight Kalman-filter-based reward estimation method for policy gradient reinforcement learning, replacing fixed reward normalization with online latent reward mean estimation to reduce variance and improve convergence.

KOALA++: Efficient Kalman-Based Optimization with Gradient-Covariance Products

KOALA++: Efficient Kalman-Based Optimization with Gradient-Covariance Products

Zixuan Xia, Aram Davtyan, Paolo Favaro
NeurIPS, 2025

An extension of KOALA, a neural network optimization algorithm based on Kalman filtering, with implicit full weights covariance matrix.