--- title: "Xiaojian Ma — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Xiaojian Ma, Mindray: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaojian-ma/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaojian-ma/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xiaojian Ma # Xiaojian Ma Xiaojian Ma has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, 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/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Anji Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anji-liu/), [Yitao Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yitao-liang/), [Zihao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-wang/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100689683) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5924-7392) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100689683) · [67 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100689683) · [1,549 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100689683&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaojian-ma/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 253 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaojian-ma/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5115](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5115) 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=Xiaojian+Ma) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xiaojian+Ma) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xiaojian+Ma) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xiaojian+Ma) ## Affiliations [🏢**Mindray** Nanshan · China 2023–2026 · 2 papersEmployment*current*](https://ror.org/04yfe8169) · [🎓**Zhengzhou University** Zhengzhou · China 2003–2018 · 26 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhengzhou-university/) · [🏛️**Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence** Beijing · China 2022–2025 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/beijing-institute-for-general-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**University of California, Los Angeles** Los Angeles · United States 2022–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) · [🎓**Northeast Forestry University** Harbin · China 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02yxnh564) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2017–2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaojian-ma/year/2024/) · [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaojian-ma/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Describe, Explain, Plan and Select: Interactive Planning with Large Language Models Enables Open-World Multi-Task Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2023-describe-explain-plan-select-interactive/)** *(2023 · 174 citations)* The paper tackles task planning for embodied agents in open-world settings such as Minecraft. Two problems make LLM planners fail there. Tasks need long chains of dependent sub-goals, so a plan written in one pass is often wrong. Plans also ignore which of several alternative sub-goals the agent can reach most easily… 2. **[MMICL: Empowering Vision-language Model with Multi-Modal In-Context Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2023-mmicl-empowering-vision-language-model/)** *(2023 · 58 citations)* Most vision-language models (VLMs) built on large language models handle prompts with a single image well. 3. **[RAT: Retrieval Augmented Thoughts Elicit Context-Aware Reasoning in Long-Horizon Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2024-rat-retrieval-augmented-thoughts-elicit/)** *(2024 · 46 citations)* Large language models that reason step by step often produce intermediate thoughts containing invented facts. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Describe, Explain, Plan and Select: Interactive Planning with Large Language Models Enables Open-World Multi-Task Agents arXiv:2302.01560**Zihao Wang, Shaofei Cai, Guanzhou Chen, et al.*2023 · 174 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2023-describe-explain-plan-select-interactive/) 2. [**MMICL: Empowering Vision-language Model with Multi-Modal In-Context Learning arXiv:2309.07915**Haozhe Zhao, Zefan Cai, Shuzheng Si, et al.*2023 · 58 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2023-mmicl-empowering-vision-language-model/) 3. **[JARVIS-1: Open-World Multi-task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05997) arXiv:2311.05997 · no summary yet**Zihao Wang et al.*2023 · 47 citations* 4. [**RAT: Retrieval Augmented Thoughts Elicit Context-Aware Reasoning in Long-Horizon Generation arXiv:2403.05313**Zihao Wang, Anji Liu, Haowei Lin, et al.*2024 · 46 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2024-rat-retrieval-augmented-thoughts-elicit/) 5. **[Open-World Multi-Task Control Through Goal-Aware Representation Learning and Adaptive Horizon Prediction ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10034) arXiv:2301.10034 · no summary yet**Shaofei Cai et al.*2023 · 18 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anji Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anji-liu/) ×2 - [Yitao Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yitao-liang/) ×2 - [Zihao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-wang/) ×2 - [Baobao Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/baobao-chang/) - [Haozhe Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haozhe-zhao/) - [Jiaqi Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaqi-li/) - [Kaikai An](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaikai-an/) - [Liang Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liang-chen/) - [Shuzheng Si](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuzheng-si/) - [Wenjuan Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjuan-han/) - [Zefan Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zefan-cai/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 253 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [48 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaojian-ma/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026