--- title: "Zeyao Ma · Alibaba Group — author profile and papers" description: "Zeyao Ma, Alibaba Group: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyao-ma/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyao-ma/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zeyao Ma # Zeyao Ma Zeyao Ma has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Binyuan Hui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/binyuan-hui/), [Junyang Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyang-lin/), [Yuheng Jing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuheng-jing/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5104334534) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9386-9136) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130883764) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5104334534) · [16 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5104334534) · [90 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5104334534&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyao-ma/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 36 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyao-ma/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9248](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/93/#star-9248) 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=Zeyao+Ma) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zeyao+Ma) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zeyao+Ma) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zeyao+Ma) ## Affiliations [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🎓**Renmin University of China** Beijing · China 2023–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/renmin-university-of-china/) · [🎓**Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications** Beijing · China 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications/) 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 8 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/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyao-ma/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyao-ma/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SpreadsheetBench: Towards Challenging Real World Spreadsheet Manipulation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2024-spreadsheetbench-towards-challenging-real-world/)** *(2024 · 21 citations)* SpreadsheetBench tackles a weakness in how LLM-based spreadsheet assistants are evaluated. Earlier benchmarks rely on synthetic or crowdsourced instructions, simple single-table sheets, and a single check per task. The authors collected solved questions from four Excel help forums (ExcelForum, Chandoo, MrExcel… 2. **[Qwen3-Coder-Next Technical Report](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cao-2026-qwen3-coder-next-technical/)** *(2026 · 15 citations)* The report asks how much coding-agent capability a model with a small active parameter budget can reach if the training recipe is strong enough. 3. **[From Completion to Editing: Unlocking Context-Aware Code Infilling via Search-and-Replace Instruction Tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-completion-editing-unlocking-context-aware/)** *(2026 · 6 citations)* Code autocompletion tools mostly rely on Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM), which has three problems. It assumes the surrounding code is correct, so it cannot fix bugs in that code. It depends on unaligned Base models, which raises safety concerns. And its skills do not carry over well when Chat LLMs are prompted to infill.… ## Co-authors here 12 of 24 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Binyuan Hui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/binyuan-hui/) ×2 - [Junyang Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyang-lin/) ×2 - [Yuheng Jing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuheng-jing/) ×2 - [Zeyu Cui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyu-cui/) ×2 - [Bohan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bohan-zhang/) - [Jiajun Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiajun-zhang/) - [Jiawei Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-chen/) - [Jiaxi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaxi-yang/) - [Jie Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-tang/) - [Jifan Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/) - [Jing Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jing-zhang/) - [Kaixin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaixin-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/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 36 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyao-ma/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026