Lei Cui

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

Joined

August 2019

Names

Lei Cui (Preferred)

Emails

****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research Asia (microsoft.com)

2015 – Present

PhD student

Harbin Institute of Technology (hit.edu.cn)

2010 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ming Zhou

2010 – 2014

Expertise

Natural Language Processing

Present

Document AI

Present

Foundation Models

Present

Multimodality

Present

Publications

Information-Preserving Reformulation of Reasoning Traces for Antidistillation
Jiayu Ding, Lei Cui, Li Dong, Nanning Zheng, Furu Wei
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
DocReward: A Document Reward Model for Structuring and Stylizing
Junpeng Liu, Yuzhong Zhao, Bowen Cao, Jiayu Ding, Yilin Jia, Tengchao Lv, Yupan Huang, Shaohan Huang, Nan Yang, Li Dong, Lei Cui, Tao Ge, XWang, Huitian Jiao, Sun Mao, FNU Kartik, Si-Qing Chen, Wai Lam, Furu Wei
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Geometric-Mean Policy Optimization
Yuzhong Zhao, Yue Liu, Junpeng Liu, Jingye Chen, Xun Wu, Yaru Hao, Tengchao Lv, Shaohan Huang, Lei Cui, Qixiang Ye, Fang Wan, Furu Wei
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Code Aesthetics with Agentic Reward Feedback
Bang Xiao, Lingjie Jiang, Shaohan Huang, Tengchao Lv, Yupan Huang, Xun Wu, Lei Cui, Furu Wei
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Synergizing Understanding and Generation with Interleaved Analyzing-Drafting Thinking
Shengqiong Wu, Bobo Li, Xinkai Wang, Xiangtai Li, Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Shuicheng YAN, Hao Fei, Tat-Seng Chua
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Think Only When You Need with Large Hybrid-Reasoning Models
Lingjie Jiang, Xun Wu, Shaohan Huang, Qingxiu Dong, Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Xingxing Zhang, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, Furu Wei
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Mind's Eye of LLMs: Visualization-of-Thought Elicits Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models
Wenshan Wu, Shaoguang Mao, Yadong Zhang, Yan Xia, Li Dong, Lei Cui, Furu Wei
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models
Shaohan Huang, Li Dong, Wenhui Wang, Yaru Hao, Saksham Singhal, Shuming Ma, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, Owais Khan Mohammed, Barun Patra, Qiang Liu, Kriti Aggarwal, Zewen Chi, Johan Bjorck, Vishrav Chaudhary, Subhojit Som, Xia Song, Furu Wei
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
TextDiffuser: Diffusion Models as Text Painters
Jingye Chen, Yupan Huang, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, Qifeng Chen, Furu Wei
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models
Shaohan Huang, Li Dong, Wenhui Wang, Yaru Hao, Saksham Singhal, Shuming Ma, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, Owais Khan Mohammed, Barun Patra, Qiang Liu, Kriti Aggarwal, Zewen Chi, Johan Bjorck, Vishrav Chaudhary, Subhojit Som, Xia Song, Furu Wei
- 2023 (modified: 16 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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