Papers by Guangyuan Ma
Static Models, Dynamic World: A Unified Perspective on Temporal Perception in Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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Chenhao Li, Dandan Song, Changzhi Zhou, Jun Yang, Yuhang Tian, Huipeng Ma, Guangyuan Feng, Luan Zhang, Xudong Li, Ke Duan
| Challenge: | Large language models are trained on static corpora but deployed in a dynamic world . a foundational tension remains between time and the ability to understand it . |
| Approach: | They formalize temporal queries in an information-theoretic framework based on parametric reachability of temporal premises and answers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework formalizes temporal queries in an information-theoretic framework based on parametric reachability of temporal premises and answers . the framework induces four temporal information regimes corresponding to internal reasoning, answer recency, premise anchoring, and genuine world indeterminacy . |
PUNR: Pre-training with User Behavior Modeling for News Recommendation (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing news recommendation methods use pre-trained language models to produce news vectors and user vectors. |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised pre-training paradigm with two tasks for user behavior modeling. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on the real-world news benchmark. |
Query-as-context Pre-training for Dense Passage Retrieval (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to improve passage retrieval performance by using context-supervised pre-training are weakly correlated. |
| Approach: | They propose to use query-as-context pre-training to train passage-query pairs . they evaluate the pre-trained models on large-scale passage retrieval benchmarks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed technique improves performance on large-scale passage retrieval benchmarks and out-of-domain zero-shot benchmarks. |
CartesianMoE: Boosting Knowledge Sharing among Experts via Cartesian Product Routing in Mixture-of-Experts (2025.naacl-long)
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Zhenpeng Su, Xing W, Zijia Lin, Yizhe Xiong, Minxuan Lv, Guangyuan Ma, Hui Chen, Songlin Hu, Guiguang Ding
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have been attracting much attention due to their impressive performance in all kinds of downstream tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a mix-of-experts model that allows the model size to grow without raising training costs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models in perplexity and robustness tests. |
Dial-MAE: ConTextual Masked Auto-Encoder for Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on dialogue response selection focus on post-training and fine-tuning for cross-encoders. |
| Approach: | They propose a post-training technique tailored for dense encoders in dialogue response selection . they propose 'Dialogue Contextual Masking Auto-Encoder' which compresses dialogue semantics into dense vectors . |
| Outcome: | The proposed technique achieves state-of-the-art on two commonly evaluated benchmarks. |