Hi there 👋👋 !
My name is Yishuo Cai (蔡艺硕), I’m currently a senior undergraduate student at the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Central South University (CSU) with GPA ranking 1/197, pursuing a B.E. degree in Software Engineering. Now, I am an incoming Ph.D. candidate at the School of Computer Science, Peking University (PKU)
Previously, I explored research in multiple areas, particularly in Trustworthy AI, with a focus:
- Evaluation, Safety aspects of large language models (LLMs) (published at EMNLP’24)
- Backdoor attacks in real-world scenarios like model quantization (published at ICML’24 and CVPR’24)
My current research interests focus on Multimodal LLM, Generative AI, etc. I am eager to conduct impactful research with a broad scope, not limited solely to Trustworthy AI.
I have won the National Scholarship (0.2% national-wide) 3 times.
🌟🌟 I’m currently actively seeking for Research Assistant, or internship positions related to any of the above topics. I’m also open to any possible discussions or collaborate opportunities. please feel free to contact me for further discussion and potential collaboration!
🔥 News
- 2024.10: One paper is accepted by EMNLP 2024.
- 2024.05: One paper is accepted by ICML 2024.
- 2024.02: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2024.
📝 Publications
$^\dagger$: equal contribution, co-first author
- Course-Correction: Safety Alignment Using Synthetic Preferences
Rongwu Xu$^\dagger$, Yishuo Cai$^\dagger$, Zhenhong Zhou, Renjie Gu, Haiqin Weng, Yan Liu, Tianwei Zhang, Wei Xu, Han Qiu
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track (EMNLP-Industry), 2024 - Purifying Quantization-conditioned Backdoors via Layer-wise Activation Correction with Distribution Approximation
Boheng Li$^\dagger$, Yishuo Cai$^\dagger$, Jisong Cai, Yiming Li, Han Qiu, Run Wang, Tianwei Zhang
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024 - Nearest Is Not Dearest: Towards Practical Defense against Quantization-conditioned Backdoor Attacks
Boheng Li, Yishuo Cai, Haowei Li, Feng Xue, Zhifeng Li, Yiming Li
The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2024
🏆 Competition Awards
- 2023.10 First Prize. RoboCup China Open.
- 2023.08 First Prize. China Students Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
- 2023.07 First Place. RoboCup 2023 Agent Simulation(world championship)
🎖 Scholarships and Honors
- 2024, 2023, 2022 National Scholarship (Award Rate: 0.2% national-wide) Ministry of Education, China
- 2023.10 Guangyun Technology Scholarship (Award Rate: 20/61781=0.1%, 20 candidates per year in CSU) Central South University & Guangyun Technologies Co., Ltd.
- 2022.12 RUI wei Scholarship (Award Rate: 40/61781=0.1%, 40 candidates per year in CSU) Central South University
- 2024, 2023, 2022 Top-Class Scholarship (Award Rate: 1% department-wide) Central South University
📖 Educations
- 2021.09 - Now, Undergraduate, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China. Majoring in Software Engineering.
- 2025.09 (expected) – 2030.07 (expected), Ph.D. candidate, School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China.