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

Masked Face Dataset Generation and Masked Face Recognition [Project Paper]

Rui Cai

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

  1. Synthetic Ascension represents the ultimate technological evolution path where organic consciousness is transferred to advanced mechanical bodies, transcending biological limitations and opening new frontiers of existence and exploration.