--- title: "Yichuan Ma — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yichuan Ma, Universiti Sains Malaysia: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichuan-ma/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichuan-ma/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yichuan Ma # Yichuan Ma Yichuan Ma has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Linyang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linyang-li/), [Peiji Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peiji-li/), [Qipeng Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qipeng-guo/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5022014664) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5999-4650) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5022014664) · [38 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022014664) · [388 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022014664&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichuan-ma/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 17 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichuan-ma/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9277](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/93/#star-9277) 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=Yichuan+Ma) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yichuan+Ma) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yichuan+Ma) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yichuan+Ma) ## Affiliations [🎓**Universiti Sains Malaysia** George Town · Malaysia 2025–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://ror.org/02rgb2k63) · [🎓**South China University of Technology** Guangzhou · China 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/south-china-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**Dalian Maritime University** Dalian · China 2021–2024 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dalian-maritime-university/) · [🎓**Hohai University** Nanjing · China 2015–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hohai-university/) · [🎓**Beijing University of Technology** Beijing · China 2020–2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**Jiangsu University** Zhenjiang · China 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03jc41j30) · [🎓**The University of Queensland** Brisbane · Australia 2014–2015 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-queensland/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 10 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Statistics and Probability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/statistics-and-probability/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichuan-ma/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichuan-ma/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[FastMCTS: A Simple Sampling Strategy for Data Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-fastmcts-simple-sampling-strategy-data/)** *(2025 · 8 citations)* Reasoning datasets for training LLMs are usually built with rejection sampling: many full solutions are drawn independently, and only those whose final answer matches the reference are kept. 2. **[Case2Code: Scalable Synthetic Data for Code Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shao-2025-case2code-scalable-synthetic-data-code/)** *(2025 · 7 citations)* Code LLMs are often improved with synthetic instruction data, but this data usually comes from a strong teacher model. 3. **[Timely Machine: Awareness of Time Makes Test-Time Scaling Agentic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2026-timely-machine-awareness-time-makes/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* In agentic settings, LLMs call tools whose latency varies, so the length of a model's generation no longer reflects how long a task takes. ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Linyang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linyang-li/) ×3 - [Peiji Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peiji-li/) ×3 - [Qipeng Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qipeng-guo/) ×3 - [Xipeng Qiu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xipeng-qiu/) ×2 - [Yunfan Shao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunfan-shao/) ×2 - [Dahua Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dahua-lin/) - [Hang Yan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hang-yan/) - [Kai Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-chen/) - [Kai Lv](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-lv/) - [Pengyu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengyu-wang/) - [Qinyuan Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinyuan-cheng/) - [Shimin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shimin-li/) ## 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/), [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 17 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yichuan-ma/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026