--- title: "Wenjie Ma — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Wenjie Ma, University of California, Berkeley: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-ma/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-ma/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Wenjie Ma # Wenjie Ma Wenjie Ma has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Alejandro Cuadron](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alejandro-cuadron/), [Charlie Snell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charlie-snell/), [Dacheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dacheng-li/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5104075825) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9134-1980) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5104075825) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5104075825) · [207 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5104075825&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-ma/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 98 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-ma/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8435](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/85/#star-8435) 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=Wenjie+Ma) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wenjie+Ma) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wenjie+Ma) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wenjie+Ma) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2025–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences** Beijing · China 2022–2024 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/0313jb750) · [🔬**Harbin Veterinary Research Institute** Harbin · China 2022–2024 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/034e92n57) · [🎓**Northwest A&F University** Yangling · China 2019–2022 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/0051rme32) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 6 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-ma/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Reasoning Models Can Be Effective Without Thinking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2025-reasoning-models-effective-thinking/)** *(2025 · 58 citations)* Large reasoning models usually write a long chain of thought before answering, and this costs many tokens and adds latency. 2. **[The Danger of Overthinking: Examining the Reasoning-Action Dilemma in Agentic Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cuadron-2025-danger-overthinking-examining-reasoning-action/)** *(2025 · 41 citations)* Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) such as o1, QwQ and DeepSeek-R1 perform well on static benchmarks. In agentic settings, however, they must keep choosing between acting in the environment and continuing to reason internally. The authors call this the Reasoning-Action Dilemma. They study "overthinking," where a model… ## All works 3 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. [**Reasoning Models Can Be Effective Without Thinking arXiv:2504.09858**Wenjie Ma, Jingxuan He, Charlie Snell, et al.*2025 · 58 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2025-reasoning-models-effective-thinking/) 2. [**The Danger of Overthinking: Examining the Reasoning-Action Dilemma in Agentic Tasks arXiv:2502.08235**Alejandro Cuadron, Dacheng Li, Wenjie Ma, et al.*2025 · 41 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cuadron-2025-danger-overthinking-examining-reasoning-action/) 3. **[optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing any Text Parameter ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813167) arXiv:2605.19633 · Proceedings of the ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS 26), May 26-29, 2026, San Jose, CA, USA · no summary yet**Lakshya A Agrawal et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alejandro Cuadron](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alejandro-cuadron/) - [Charlie Snell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charlie-snell/) - [Dacheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dacheng-li/) - [Huanzhi Mao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huanzhi-mao/) - [Jingxuan He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingxuan-he/) - [Matei Zaharia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matei-zaharia/) - [Sewon Min](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sewon-min/) - [Shu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shu-liu/) - [Siyuan Zhuang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siyuan-zhuang/) - [Tian Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tian-xia/) - [Tyler Griggs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tyler-griggs/) - [Xingyao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingyao-wang/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 98 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [36 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-ma/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026