--- title: "Chengkun Cai — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Chengkun Cai, University College London: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengkun-cai/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengkun-cai/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Chengkun Cai # Chengkun Cai Chengkun Cai has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Boyuan Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boyuan-chen/), [Chi-Min Chan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chi-min-chan/), [Han Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-zhu/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5120028647) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5120028647) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120028647) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120028647&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengkun-cai/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 16 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengkun-cai/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9075](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/91/#star-9075) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Chengkun+Cai) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chengkun+Cai) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chengkun+Cai) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chengkun+Cai) ## Affiliations [🎓**University College London** London · United Kingdom 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengkun-cai/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengkun-cai/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Role of Deductive and Inductive Reasoning in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cai-2025-role-deductive-inductive-reasoning-large/)** *(2025 · 17 citations)* Prompting methods such as Tree of Thought improve LLM reasoning by exploring many output paths, but this is expensive, and fixed prompt templates adapt poorly to harder instances. 2. **[SafeMT: Multi-turn Safety for Multimodal Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-safemt-multi-turn-safety-multimodal/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* SafeMT targets a gap in the safety evaluation of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Existing benchmarks mostly test single image-plus-prompt inputs, but real users talk to these models over many turns, and harmful intent can be spread across a conversation. The authors combined red-team queries from earlier… ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Boyuan Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boyuan-chen/) - [Chi-Min Chan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chi-min-chan/) - [Han Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-zhu/) - [Haoran Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoran-li/) - [Jiaming Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaming-ji/) - [Juntao Dai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juntao-dai/) - [Lei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/) - [Sirui Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sirui-han/) - [Xu Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xu-zhao/) - [Yaodong Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yaodong-yang/) - [Yike Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yike-guo/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 16 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengkun-cai/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026