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I’m a second-year PhD student in machine learning at Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Pan Li. My current research interests include retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and graph generative models.

Prior to that, I was a software development engineer (SDE) at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Shanghai AI Lab. I received my bachelor’s degree in Honors Math from NYU Shanghai.

I’m actively seeking research internship opportunities for summer 2025 and would be grateful for any relevant information or recommendations.

News

Nov 12, 2024	Check our new paper on SubgraphRAG, a simple yet flexible and effective approach for knowledge-graph-based retrieval-augmented generation!
Nov 3, 2024	Check our new paper on LayerDAG, a layerwise autoregressive diffusion model for directed acyclic graph!
Nov 3, 2024	I’m honored to be a top reviewer for NeurIPS 2024!
Oct 25, 2024	GraphMaker, a discrete diffusion model for genertating text-attributed graphs of up to 10K nodes was accepted by TMLR!
Aug 5, 2024	Our review on graph neural networks (GNNs) for electrical engineering has been accepted by Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering!

Selected Publications

arXiv

Simple is Effective: The Roles of Graphs and Large Language Models in Knowledge-Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Mufei Li, Siqi Miao, and Pan Li

arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.20724, 2024

Mufei Li and Siqi Miao contributed equally to this work.

arXiv Bib Code

@article{li2024subgraphrag,
  title = {Simple is Effective: The Roles of Graphs and Large Language Models in Knowledge-Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation},
  author = {Li, Mufei and Miao, Siqi and Li, Pan},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.20724},
  year = {2024},
  note = {Mufei Li and Siqi Miao contributed equally to this work.},
}

arXiv

LayerDAG: A Layerwise Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Directed Acyclic Graph Generation

Mufei Li, Viraj Shitole, Eli Chien, Changhai Man, Zhaodong Wang, Srinivas Sridharan, Ying Zhang, Tushar Krishna, and Pan Li

arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.02322, 2024

arXiv Bib Code

@article{li2024layerdag,
  title = {Layer{DAG}: A Layerwise Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Directed Acyclic Graph Generation},
  author = {Li, Mufei and Shitole, Viraj and Chien, Eli and Man, Changhai and Wang, Zhaodong and Sridharan, Srinivas and Zhang, Ying and Krishna, Tushar and Li, Pan},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.02322},
  year = {2024},
}

TMLR

GraphMaker: Can Diffusion Models Generate Large Attributed Graphs?

Mufei Li, Eleonora Kreačić, Vamsi K. Potluru, and Pan Li

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024

arXiv Bib Code ...⭐

@article{li2024graphmaker,
  title = {GraphMaker: Can Diffusion Models Generate Large Attributed Graphs?},
  author = {Li, Mufei and Kreačić, Eleonora and Potluru, Vamsi K. and Li, Pan},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
  github_stars = {Graph-COM/GraphMaker},
}

ACS Omega

DGL-LifeSci: An Open-Source Toolkit for Deep Learning on Graphs in Life Science

Mufei Li, Jinjing Zhou, Jiajing Hu, Wenxuan Fan, Yangkang Zhang, Yaxin Gu, and George Karypis

ACS Omega, 2021

Bib HTML Code ...⭐

@article{dgllife,
  title = {DGL-LifeSci: An Open-Source Toolkit for Deep Learning on Graphs in Life Science},
  author = {Li, Mufei and Zhou, Jinjing and Hu, Jiajing and Fan, Wenxuan and Zhang, Yangkang and Gu, Yaxin and Karypis, George},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {ACS Omega},
  volume = {6},
  number = {41},
  pages = {27233-27238},
  doi = {10.1021/acsomega.1c04017},
  github_stars = {awslabs/dgl-lifesci},
  dimensions = {false},
}

arXiv

Deep Graph Library: A Graph-Centric, Highly-Performant Package for Graph Neural Networks

Minjie Wang, Da Zheng, Zihao Ye, Quan Gan, Mufei Li, Xiang Song, Jinjing Zhou, Chao Ma, Lingfan Yu, Yu Gai, Tianjun Xiao, Tong He, George Karypis, Jinyang Li, and Zheng Zhang

arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01315, 2019

arXiv Bib Code ...⭐

@article{wang2019dgl,
  title = {Deep Graph Library: A Graph-Centric, Highly-Performant Package for Graph Neural Networks},
  author = {Wang, Minjie and Zheng, Da and Ye, Zihao and Gan, Quan and Li, Mufei and Song, Xiang and Zhou, Jinjing and Ma, Chao and Yu, Lingfan and Gai, Yu and Xiao, Tianjun and He, Tong and Karypis, George and Li, Jinyang and Zhang, Zheng},
  year = {2019},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01315},
  github_stars = {dmlc/dgl},
}