Chaoda Song

PhD Student

Chaoda Song

Chaoda Song

PhD Student

Vision-Language-Action (VLA), Vision-Language Models (VLM), Large Language Models (LLM)

Email: cxs965@case.edu

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Location: VU Lab, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

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I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science and Data Science at Case Western Reserve University, advised by Prof. Yu Yin. My research focuses on the intersection of computer vision and large language models, with current work on VLA-driven robotic manipulation on real hardware. Outside of research, I enjoy tennis, music, and K-pop and hip-hop dance. I am always happy to connect, exchange ideas, and discuss new directions—feel free to reach out.

Education

  • B.S. in Software Engineering, Zhengzhou University, China
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Research Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • Large Language Models (LLM)
  • Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models

Academic Service

  • Reviewer, ICML 2026
  • Reviewer, ECCV 2026
  • Reviewer, CoLM 2026
  • Reviewer, ICME 2026

Publications

  1. HugRAG: Hierarchical Causal Knowledge Graph Design for RAG.
    Nian Wang, Tuo Liang, Varun Singh, Chaoda Song, Vivian Yang, Yu Yin, Jing Ma, Jaideep Singh and others.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05143, 2026.
     
    @article{wang2026hugrag,
  title = {HugRAG: Hierarchical Causal Knowledge Graph Design for RAG},
  author = {Wang, Nian and Liang, Tuo and Singh, Varun and Song, Chaoda and Yang, Vivian and Yin, Yu and Ma, Jing and Singh, Jaideep and others},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05143},
  year = {2026},
  status = {preprint},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.05143.pdf}
}

    

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    Segment then Splat: Unified 3D Open-Vocabulary Segmentation via Gaussian Splatting. 
    Yiren Lu, Yunlai Zhou, Yiran Qiao, Chaoda Song, Tuo Liang, Jing Ma, Huan Wang and Yu Yin.
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
    
    
    
    
    

    

    

    

    

    

    
    
    
        
    
    
        
    
    
    
    
        
    
    

    


    @article{lu2025segment,
  title = {Segment then Splat: Unified 3D Open-Vocabulary Segmentation via Gaussian Splatting},
  author = {Lu, Yiren and Zhou, Yunlai and Qiao, Yiran and Song, Chaoda and Liang, Tuo and Ma, Jing and Wang, Huan and Yin, Yu},
  journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  status = {accepted},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22204v2},
  website = {https://yiren-lu.com/project_pages/Segment-then-Splat/},
  code = {https://github.com/luyr/Segment-then-Splat}
}