Profile
Rui Xiao is a PhD student in the Explainable Machine Learning group, supervised by Prof. Dr. Zeynep Akata. He earned his master's degree from the Technical University of Munich, specializing in Robotics, Cognition, and Intelligence, and his bachelor's degree in Automotive Engineering from Jilin University, China. His research focuses on learning across modalities and domains, with a particular emphasis on enhancing fine-grained visual capabilities in vision-language models.
Publications
"FINER: MLLMs Hallucinate under Fine-grained Negative Queries"
Rui Xiao, Sanghwan Kim, Yongqin Xian, Zeynep Akata, Stephan Alaniz
CVPR 2026
"FLAIR: VLM with Fine-grained Language-informed Image Representations"
Rui Xiao, Sanghwan Kim, Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu, Zeynep Akata, Stephan Alaniz
CVPR 2025
"COSMOS: Cross-Modality Self-Distillation for Vision Language Pre-training"
Sanghwan Kim, Rui Xiao, Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu, Stephan Alaniz, Zeynep Akata
CVPR 2025