Hello there! I am Rui Cai(Luis)
About Me
I’m a first year Ph.D student at Computer Science Department, University of California, Davis. The pronunciation of my name is “Ray Tsai”(You can call me Yanson(言燊) or Luis). My research interest includes multimodal machine learning and large language models.
I am an enthusiastic fan of Synthetic Ascension1.
Email : [first name][last name] [at] [my phd school] [dot] edu
Publication
Diagnosing and Mitigating Modality Interference in Multimodal Large Language Models
Rui Cai, Bangzheng Li, Xiaofei Wen, Muhao Chen, Zhe Zhao
Arxiv Preprint
Boosting Knowledge Graph-based Recommendations through Confidence-Aware Augmentation with Large Language Models
Rui Cai, Chao Wang, Qianyi Cai, Dazhong Shen, Hui Xiong
Arxiv Preprint
Zero-Shot Relational Learning for Multimodal Knowledge Graphs
Rui Cai, Shichao Pei, Xiangliang Zhang
Proceedings of IEEE Big Data 2024
Invited Talk
- Modality Interference in Multimodal Large Language Models, Invited Talk at Google, Jun 2025
- Modality Interference in Multimodal Large Language Models, PhD Symposium, LinkedIn GenAI, Jun 2025
Education
- Ph.D student in Computer Science, University of California, Davis, 2024 Fall - Now, co-advised by Prof. Zhe Zhao and Prof. Muhao Chen.
- B.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2020 Fall-2024 Spring, advised by Prof. Pengju Ren and Prof. Yuehu Liu from College of Artificial Intelligence
- Visiting Student in Columbia College, Columbia University, 2022 Fall, advised by Prof.James Anderson
- The special class of Young Gifted Program, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2018 Fall-2020 Spring
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