--- title: "Xiaosong Ma — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Xiaosong Ma, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 30 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaosong-ma/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaosong-ma/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xiaosong Ma # Xiaosong Ma Xiaosong Ma has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Jie Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-zhang/), [Song Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/song-guo/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5083800790) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1261-2496) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130959871) · [**h-index 30**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5083800790) · [127 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083800790) · [3,033 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083800790&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaosong-ma/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 132 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaosong-ma/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9976](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/100/#star-9976) 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=Xiaosong+Ma) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xiaosong+Ma) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xiaosong+Ma) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xiaosong+Ma) ## Affiliations [🎓**Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2024–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**North Carolina State University** Raleigh · United States 2004–2015 · 66 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/north-carolina-state-university/) · [🔬**Oak Ridge National Laboratory** Oak Ridge · United States 2005–2013 · 38 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/oak-ridge-national-laboratory/) · [🎓**Hamad bin Khalifa University** Doha · Qatar 2015–2023 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 1999–2004 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2017–2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2017–2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2011 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🏢**Intel** Santa Clara · United States 2011 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/intel/) · [🎓**Universitat Jaume I** Castellon · Spain 2011 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-jaume-i/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 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 [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaosong-ma/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[LazyEviction: Lagged KV Eviction with Attention Pattern Observation for Efficient Long Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-lazyeviction-lagged-kv-eviction-attention/)** *(2026 · 8 citations)* Chain-of-Thought reasoning in LLMs can produce outputs of thousands of tokens, and the KV cache grows with every one of them. 2. **[Think How to Think: Mitigating Overthinking with Autonomous Difficulty Cognition in Large Reasoning Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-think-how-think-mitigating-overthinking/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) tend to overthink: they produce long, repetitive chains of thought even for trivial questions. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jie Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-zhang/) ×2 - [Song Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/song-guo/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 132 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [107 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaosong-ma/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026