--- title: "Pingchuan Ma — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Pingchuan Ma, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 22 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pingchuan-ma/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pingchuan-ma/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Pingchuan Ma # Pingchuan Ma Pingchuan Ma has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, 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/); often with [Bohan Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bohan-jiang/), [Chuang Gan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuang-gan/), [Dawei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawei-li/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5001790767) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3752-0803) · [**h-index 22**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5001790767) · [53 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001790767) · [2,170 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001790767&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pingchuan-ma/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 44 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pingchuan-ma/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9597](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/96/#star-9597) 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=Pingchuan+Ma) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Pingchuan+Ma) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Pingchuan+Ma) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Pingchuan+Ma) ## Affiliations [🎓**Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München** Munich · Germany 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/) · [🎓**Arizona State University** Tempe · United States 2024–2026 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/arizona-state-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2020–2025 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2021–2025 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**Heidelberg University** Heidelberg · Germany 2019–2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/heidelberg-university/) · [🎓**Nankai University** Tianjin · China 2018–2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nankai-university/) · [🎓**Imperial College London** London · United Kingdom 2018Education since 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 9 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/) · [Materials Chemistry · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/materials-chemistry/) · [Materials Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/) · [Physics and Astronomy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/physics-and-astronomy/) · [Statistical and Nonlinear Physics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/physics-and-astronomy/statistical-and-nonlinear-physics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pingchuan-ma/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pingchuan-ma/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[LLM and Simulation as Bilevel Optimizers: A New Paradigm to Advance Physical Scientific Discovery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2024-llm-simulation-bilevel-optimizers-new/)** *(2024 · 33 citations)* Pretrained LLMs hold broad scientific knowledge and can reason about hypotheses. However, they cannot reliably compute what a proposed physical law predicts or check it against observations. The authors address this with Scientific Generative Agent (SGA), which couples an LLM with a differentiable simulator in a… 2. **[Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-is-chain-thought-reasoning-llms/)** *(2026 · 21 citations)* The paper asks why chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting sometimes yields convincing step-by-step reasoning and sometimes collapses. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[A Content Transformation Block for Image Style Transfer ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.01027) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Dmytro Kotovenko et al.*2019 · 84 citations* 2. [**LLM and Simulation as Bilevel Optimizers: A New Paradigm to Advance Physical Scientific Discovery arXiv:2405.09783**Pingchuan Ma, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Minghao Guo, et al.*2024 · 33 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2024-llm-simulation-bilevel-optimizers-new/) 3. **[Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-is-chain-thought-reasoning-llms/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Chengshuai Zhao, Zhen Tan, Pingchuan Ma, et al.*2026 · 21 citations* 4. **[Physically Compatible 3D Object Modeling from a Single Image ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/079017-3789) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Minghao Guo et al.*2024 · 6 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bohan Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bohan-jiang/) - [Chuang Gan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuang-gan/) - [Dawei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawei-li/) - [Huan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-liu/) - [Joshua B. Tenenbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-b-tenenbaum/) - [Zhen Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-tan/) - [Zhiqing Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqing-sun/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - neural information processing systems ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 44 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pingchuan-ma/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026