Qian Cao

曹乾 | a.k.a Aman | Be a voice, not an echo.

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I am a PhD student at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence (GSAI), Renmin University of China (RUC). I am advised by Prof. Ruihua Song. Prior to this, I graduated from School of Information and Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China where I obtained my bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in 2020 and 2023, respectively.

Research Interests

  • Various Text Generation problems, especially in Multimodal and Creative scenarios;
  • Large Language Models (LLMs) & their Applications

News

Oct 10, 2024 Our work Understanding the Roles of Visual Modality in Multimodal Dialogue: An Empirical Study was accepted by MMM 2025!
Sep 21, 2024 Our work BSharedRAG: Backbone Shared Retrieval-Augmented Generation for the E-commerce Domain was accepted by EMNLP 2024 Findings!
Jul 16, 2024 Our work See or Guess: Counterfactually Regularized Image Captioning was accepted by ACM MM 2024!
Jun 28, 2024 We published YuLan-Base-12B & YuLan-Chat-3-12B, a series of LLMs trained from scratch! See our report.
Sep 3, 2023 Started a new journey as a PhD student at GSAI, RUC.
Jun 26, 2023 Received my master’s degree! Happy graduation!

Publications

  1. MMM 2025
    Understanding the Roles of Visual Modality in Multimodal Dialogue: An Empirical Study
    Qian Cao, Ruihua Song, and Xu Chen
    In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 2025, Jan 2025
  2. BSharedRAG: Backbone Shared Retrieval-Augmented Generation for the E-commerce Domain
    Kaisi Guan, Qian Cao, Yuchong Sun, Xiting Wang, and Ruihua Song
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, Nov 2024
  3. See or Guess: Counterfactually Regularized Image Captioning
    Qian Cao, Xu Chen, Ruihua Song, Xiting Wang, Xinting Huang, and Yuchen Ren
    In Proceedings of the 32th ACM international conference on Multimedia, Oct 2024
  4. YuLan: An Open-source Large Language Model
    Yutao Zhu, Kun Zhou, Kelong Mao, Wentong Chen, Yiding Sun, Zhipeng Chen, Qian Cao, Yihan Wu, Yushuo Chen, Feng Wang, and  others
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19853 Oct 2024
  5. Multi-Modal Experience Inspired AI Creation
    Qian Cao, Xu Chen, Ruihua Song, Hao Jiang, Guang Yang, and Zhao Cao
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Multimedia, Oct 2022

Experiences

2022.6 - 2023.3.6 NLP Center @ AI Lab Research Intern
2020.9 - Now AIMind Group @ Beijing Key Lab of Big Data Management and Analysis, ruc_logo PNG Image RUC Research Assistant
2021.6 - 2022.2 Bing powered Xiaoice @ Software Technology Center at Asia Research Intern
2021.9 - 2021.12 Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, ruc_logo PNG Image RUC Teaching Assistant

Services

Conference Reviewer: MM'24, EMNLP'23
Journal Reviewer: Discover Computing (formerly Information Retrieval Journal)