I am an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Technology at Hohai University, Nanjing, China. My current research focuses on efficient LLMs inference, multimodal learning and edge intelligence. I am currently a student researcher in the Edge Intelligence Research Group, advised by Associate Professor Zhihao Qu.
I am always happy to discuss research ideas and potential collaborations. Please feel free to contact me by email.
🔥 News
- 2026.07: Received the National Third Prize in the 15th “China Software Cup” College Student Software Design Competition.
- 2025.12: We propose SimCalKV, a lightweight KV Cache merging method which accelerates LLMs inference.
- 2025.06: Joined the Edge Intelligence Research Group at Hohai University.
- 2025.03: Received an invention patent for adaptive coastline edge detection based on multimodal large models.
🔍 Research Interests
- Efficient Large Language Model Inference
- KV Cache Compression and Memory-Efficient Serving
- Edge Intelligence
📝 Publications
Efficient LLMs Inference via Similarity-Aware KV Cache Merging with Bias Calibration
Yukai Cheng, Wenxuan Zhou, Zhizhou Li, Zhihao Qu, Baoliu Ye
In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), pp. 349–358, IEEE, 2025.
💻 Research Experience
- 2025.06 - Present, Student Researcher, Edge Intelligence Research Group, Hohai University. Advised by Associate Professor Zhihao Qu. Research on efficient LLM inference and lightweight KV cache compression.
- 2025.02 - 2025.05, Student Researcher, Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AIM Group), Hohai University. Advised by Professor Fan Liu. Research on vision-language pretraining for remote sensing and multimodal UAV perception and autonomous guidance.
📖 Education
- 2023.09 - Present, B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology, Hohai University, Nanjing, China.
- English: CET-4 665, CET-6 605, IELTS 8.0
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2026.07, National Third Prize, 15th “China Software Cup” College Student Software Design Competition
- 2025.06, Second Prize, 7th “China CRRC Cup” National College Students Renewable Energy Excellent Works Competition
- 2024.12, Third Prize, 16th Chinese Mathematics Competitions for College Students (CMC)
- 2024.06, First Prize, 21st Jiangsu Higher Mathematics Competition for Colleges and Universities
- 2023 - 2024, National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students
- 2023 - 2025, Outstanding Student Scholarship, Hohai University
- 2024 - 2025, Outstanding Peer Mentor for First-Year Students, Hohai University
- 2024 - 2025, Outstanding Class Monitor, Hohai University
🛠 Skills
- Programming: Python, C/C++, Java, MATLAB
- Frameworks & Tools: PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, LaTeX