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Welcome to my blog!
I am Bokai Xu (胥博凯), I received bachelor degree at CUHK Shenzhen. After that I work as an engineer at Modelbest Inc. My long-term passion is understanding the connection between deep neural networks and biological brain, and the nature of human conciousness. But currently, I do works in omni llm.
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News
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Feb 4, 2026: Our omni foundation model, MiniCPM-o-4.5 released, the world’s first omnimodal full-duplex model, where I co-designed omnimodal full-duplex architecture and was responsible for speech capability.
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Jan 19, 2025: Our omni foundation model, MiniCPM-o-2.6: A GPT-4o Level MLLM for Vision, Speech and Multimodal Live Streaming on Your Phone released, where I contributed to end-to-end speech llm pretraining & streaming speech generation & advanced voice mode.
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Oct 14, 2024: Our paper, pure VLM-based RAG VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents released, contributed to training and evaluation framework of VLM-based dense retrieval models.
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Sep 4, 2024: Our work, text dense retrieval model MiniCPM-Embedding released, contributed to contrastive learning train & eval framework.
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Aug 5, 2024: Our model MiniCPM-V-2.6: A GPT-4V Level MLLM for Single Image, Multi Image and Video on Your Phone released, where I contributed to enhanced OCR capability and multi-image understanding capability.
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July 1, 2024: Act as a machine learning engineer at Modelbest Inc, I work with Dr. Yuan Yao, Mr. Junbo Cui, and Mr. Weiyue Sun.
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Jan 9, 2024: Converted to Modelbest Inc. machine learning intern, my mentors are Dr. Huadong Wang and Mr. Shi Yu.
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May 23, 2023: Our paper UltraChat: Enhancing Chat Language Models by Scaling High-quality Instructional Conversations released.
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Apr 17 2023: Our paper Tool Learning with Foundation Models released.
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Apr 3, 2023: Joined ICBI@SIAT as a part-time research assistant. I work closely with Dr. Chaoyu Yang and Prof. Pengcheng Zhou on brain reconstruction.
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June 1, 2022: Joined THUNLP@THU as a part-time research assistant, my mentor is Dr. Huadong Wang.