From research to working AI.

I work across multimodal learning, recommendation, and ML infrastructure, connecting new ideas with systems people can use.

Four projects. One journey from idea to impact.

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.

Selected work

The work, unpacked.

Look inside the work: how models perceive, how systems adapt, and what it takes to make them useful.

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Multimodal learning

Inverse-LLaVA

Reverse the usual alignment direction: map text into a pretrained vision space.

45% fewer training samples than LLaVA-1.5, with no alignment pre-training.

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

Recommendation systems

Treverse Recsys

A recommender built for cold-start items and inventory that never stands still.

Learning → serving Time-safe graph learning, verified releases, and controlled experiments.

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

Language & human behavior

AI for Negotiation

An LLM pipeline turns negotiation transcripts into structured evidence for behavioral research.

$5,000 → $3 estimated annotation cost per transcript in the reported study.

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ML infrastructure

FORGE

Shared delivery, monitoring, and rollback, with a runtime suited to each workload.

Cloud to edge Infrastructure, artifacts, and deployment state stay independently reviewable.

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

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02 / 05

Fit the representation.

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

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03 / 05

Make the comparison legible.

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

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04 / 05

Publish a reviewable release.

FORGE defines six contracts across distinct ML runtimes.

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05 / 05

Return field evidence.

Treverse joins controlled exposure with reproducible learning and serving.

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