Applied scientist / Research & engineering

From research
to working AI.

I’m Xuhui. I work across multimodal learning, recommendation systems, and the infrastructure that brings models into use.

ZXH explorer spacecraft A graphite exploration craft that opens to reveal a two-seat flight deck, four-seat passenger cabin, life-support and communications bay, and twin propulsion cores. Each assembly introduces a project by Xuhui Zhan.

Inside the explorer

A system of ideas.

Four connected disciplines. Explore the work behind each one.

Flight deck

Making sense of what a system sees.

Multimodal AI

Inverse-LLaVA

Rethinking how vision and language meet, with no alignment pre-training and 45% fewer training samples.

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Inverse-LLaVA replaces LLaVA's two-stage alignment pipeline with single-stage text-to-vision fusion inside the language model.

Crew cabin

Building systems around people.

Recommendation Systems

Treverse Recsys

Personalized recommendations, from temporal graph learning to real-time serving and controlled experiments.

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The system moves model intelligence into a verified release and keeps request-time routing and measurement inspectable.

Service bay

Giving intelligence a way to interact.

Natural Language Processing

AI for Negotiation

Turning negotiation transcripts into research data, reducing annotation cost from $5,000 to $3 per transcript.

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Screenshot of the AI Negotiation Lab homepage

Propulsion assembly

The infrastructure that brings models into use.

ML Infrastructure

FORGE

A shared ML platform connecting training, deployment, and observability across cloud and edge workloads.

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FORGE separates infrastructure intent, immutable artifacts, and reviewed deployment state while preserving different runtime shapes.
All projects

02 / How I work

Research and production,
in one loop.

A useful model is only part of the story. I follow the question through evaluation, deployment, and what the system teaches us next.

Method / 05

Each stage opens the project that best demonstrates it.

01 / 05

Frame the question.

Ancient Mortars structures roughly 10 million particle images for comparison.

Open project
02 / 05

Fit the representation.

Inverse-LLaVA maps text into visual space inside the language model.

Open project
03 / 05

Make the comparison legible.

Negotiation transcript coding reports a cost drop from more than $5,000 to $3.

Open project
04 / 05

Publish a reviewable release.

FORGE defines six contracts across distinct ML runtimes.

Open project
05 / 05

Return field evidence.

Treverse joins controlled exposure with reproducible learning and serving.

Open project