Rui Cao (曹睿)

Assistant Professor
Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar
Singapore University of Technology and Design
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Selected Publications [Full List: Google Scholar]

  • [NEW] AVerImaTeC: A Dataset for Automatic Verification of Image-Text Claims with Evidence from the Web
    Rui Cao, Zifeng Ding, Zhijiang Guo, Michael Schlichtkrull, Andreas Vlachos
    NeurIPS 2025 [paper] [data&code] [leaderboard]

  • [NEW] Image Tokens Matter: Mitigating Hallucination in Discrete Tokenizer-based Large Vision-Language Models via Latent Editing
    Weixing Wang*, Zifeng Ding*, Jingdong Gu, Rui Cao, Gerard de Melo, Christoph Meinel , Haojin Yang
    NeurIPS 2025 [paper] [code]

  • Resolving Conflicting Evidence in Automated Fact-Checking: A Study on Retrieval-Augmented LLMs
    Ziyu Ge*, Yuhao Wu*, Daniel Wai Kit, Roy Ka‑Wei Lee, Rui Cao☨
    IJCAI 2025 [paper] [data&code]

  • Evaluating LLMs’ Assessment of Mixed-Context Hallucination Through the Lens of Summarization
    Siya Qi, Rui Cao, Yulan He, Zheng Yuan
    Findings of ACL 2025 [paper] [data&code]

  • Recent Advances in Online Hate Speech Moderation: Multimodality and the Role of Large Models
    Mingshan Hee*, Shivam Sharma*, Rui Cao, Palash Nandi, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
    Findings of EMNLP 2024 [paper]

  • Modularized Networks for Few-shot Hateful Meme Detection
    Rui Cao, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Jing Jiang
    WWW 2024 [paper] [code]

  • Knowledge Generation for Zero-shot Knowledge-based VQA
    Rui Cao, Jing Jiang
    Findings of EACL 2023 [paper] [data&code]

  • Pro-Cap: Leveraging a Frozen Vision-Language Model for Hateful Meme Detection
    Rui Cao, Ming Shan Hee, Adriel Kuek, Wen-Haw Chong, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Jing Jiang
    ACM MM 2023 [paper] [code]

  • MATK: The Meme Analytical Tool Kit
    Ming Shan Hee, Aditi Kumaresan, Nguyen Khoi Hoang, Nirmalendu Prakash, Rui Cao, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
    ACM MM 2023 [paper] [code]

  • Modularized Zero-shot VQA with Pre-trained Models
    Rui Cao, Jing Jiang
    Findings of ACL 2023 [paper] [code]

  • Prompting for Multimodal Hateful Meme Classification
    Rui Cao, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Wen-Haw Chong, Jing Jiang.
    EMNLP 2022 [paper] [code]

  • Disentangling Hate in Online Memes
    Rui Cao*, Ziqing Fan*, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Wen-Haw Chong, Jing Jiang
    ACM MM 2021 [paper] [code]

  • HateGAN: Adversarial Generative-Based Data Augmentation for Hate Speech Detection
    Rui Cao, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
    COLING 2020 [paper] [code]