Chang Ma
Ph.D student, The University of Hong Kong
cma [AT] cs.hku.hk
Bio
I am an incoming postdoc at The University of Washington. I will be co-advised by Pang Wei Koh and Hanna Hajishirzi. I completed my Ph.D at The University of Hong Kong where I was fortunately co-advised by Lingpeng Kong and Tao Yu, and also worked closely with Junxian He. Before that, I received my B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University, advised by Zhihong Deng.
Apart from my advisors, I was also deeply inspired by these collaborators throughout my research.
Publications
Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
‡ indicates equal contribution.
Orion: Towards Lab Automation with Computer-Using Agents
Chang Ma*, Linh T. Trinh*, Matt Bucci, Aviv Regev, Hanchen Wang
Preprint
Retrieved Sequence Augmentation for Protein Representation Learning
Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Lin Zheng, Jiayi Xin, Qintong Li, Lijun Wu, Zhihong Deng, Yang Lu, Qi Liu, Sheng Wang, Lingpeng Kong
EMNLP 2024
BioMaze: Benchmarking and Enhancing Large Language Models for Biological Pathway Reasoning
Haiteng Zhao, Chang Ma, Lingpeng Kong, Zhi-Hong Deng
Preprint
GIMLET: A Unified Graph-Text Model for Instruction-Based Molecule Zero-Shot Learning
Haiteng Zhao, Shengchao Liu, Chang Ma, Hannan Xu, Jie Fu, Zhi-Hong Deng, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu
NeurIPS 2023
TorchDrug: A Powerful and Flexible Machine Learning Platform for Drug Discovery
Zhaocheng Zhu, Chence Shi, Zuobai Zhang, Shengchao Liu, Minghao Xu, Xinyu Yuan, Yangtian Zhang, Junkun Chen, Huiyu Cai, Jiarui Lu, Chang Ma, Runcheng Liu, Louis-Pascal Xhonneux, Meng Qu, Jian Tang
Preprint
PEER: A Comprehensive and Multi-Task Benchmark for Protein Sequence Understanding
Minghao Xu, Zuobai Zhang, Jiarui Lu, Zhaocheng Zhu, Yangtian Zhang, Chang Ma, Runcheng Liu, Jian Tang
NeurIPS 2022 Dataset and Benchmark Track
Non-myopic Generation of Language Models for Reasoning and Planning
Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Junlei Zhang, Junxian He, Lingpeng Kong
ICLR 2025
AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-Turn LLM Agents
Chang Ma*, Junlei Zhang*, Zhihao Zhu*, Cheng Yang*, Yujiu Yang, Yaohui Jin, Zhenzhong Lan, Lingpeng Kong, Junxian He
NeurIPS 2024 Dataset and Benchmark Track (Oral)
ScienceBoard: Evaluating Multimodal Autonomous Agents in Realistic Scientific Workflows
Qiushi Sun, Zhoumianze Liu, Chang Ma,..., Xiachong Feng, Xiang Li, Ben Kao, Wenhai Wang, Biqing Qi, Lingpeng Kong, Zhiyong Wu (21 authors)
ICLR 2026
Genius: A Generalizable and Purely Unsupervised Self-Training Framework For Advanced Reasoning
Fangzhi Xu, Hang Yan, Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Qiushi Sun, Kanzhi Cheng, Junxian He, Jun Liu, Zhiyong Wu
ACL 2025
φ-Decoding: Adaptive Foresight Sampling for Balanced Inference-Time Exploration and Exploitation
Fangzhi Xu, Hang Yan, Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Jun Liu, Qika Lin, Zhiyong Wu
ACL 2025
Breaking the Data Barrier – Building GUI Agents Through Task Generalization
Junlei Zhang, Zichen Ding, Chang Ma, Zijie Chen, Qiushi Sun, Zhenzhong Lan, Junxian He
COLM 2025
Empowering Large Language Model Agents through Action Learning
Haiteng Zhao, Chang Ma, Guoyin Wang, Jing su, Lingpeng Kong, Jingjing Xu, Zhi-Hong Deng, Hongxia Yang
COLM 2024
A Survey on Large Language Model-Based Social Agents in Game-Theoretic Scenarios
Xiachong Feng, Longxu Dou, Ella Li, Qinghao Wang, Haochuan Wang, Yu Guo, Chang Ma, Lingpeng Kong
TMLR
A Survey of Neural Code Intelligence: Paradigms, Advances and Beyond
Qiushi Sun, Zhirui Chen, Fangzhi Xu, Chang Ma, Kanzhi Cheng, Zhangyue Yin, Jianing Wang, Chengcheng Han, Renyu Zhu, Shuai Yuan, Pengcheng Yin, Qipeng Guo, Xipeng Qiu, Xiaoli Li, Fei Yuan, Lingpeng Kong, Xiang Li, Zhiyong Wu
Preprint
A Challenging Benchmark for Low-Resource Learning
Yudong Wang*, Chang Ma*, Qingxiu Dong, Lingpeng Kong, Jingjing Xu
ACL 2024 Findings
KS-Lottery: Finding Certified Lottery Tickets for Multilingual Language Models
Fei Yuan, Chang Ma, Shuai Yuan, Qiushi Sun, Lei Li
NAACL 2025 Oral
Certified Robustness Against Natural Language Attacks by Causal Intervention
Haiteng Zhao*, Chang Ma*, Xinshuai Dong*, Anh Tuan Luu, Zhi-Hong Deng, Hanwang Zhang
ICML 2022
Domain Adaptation via Mutual Information Maximization
Haiteng Zhao, Chang Ma, Qinyu Chen, Zhihong Deng
IJCAI 2022 Long Presentation
Orion: Towards Lab Automation with Computer-Using Agents
Chang Ma*, Linh T. Trinh*, Matt Bucci, Aviv Regev, Hanchen Wang
Preprint
Non-myopic Generation of Language Models for Reasoning and Planning
Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Junlei Zhang, Junxian He, Lingpeng Kong
ICLR 2025
AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-Turn LLM Agents
Chang Ma*, Junlei Zhang*, Zhihao Zhu*, Cheng Yang*, Yujiu Yang, Yaohui Jin, Zhenzhong Lan, Lingpeng Kong, Junxian He
NeurIPS 2024 Dataset and Benchmark Track (Oral)
ScienceBoard: Evaluating Multimodal Autonomous Agents in Realistic Scientific Workflows
Qiushi Sun, Zhoumianze Liu, Chang Ma,..., Xiachong Feng, Xiang Li, Ben Kao, Wenhai Wang, Biqing Qi, Lingpeng Kong, Zhiyong Wu (21 authors)
ICLR 2026
Genius: A Generalizable and Purely Unsupervised Self-Training Framework For Advanced Reasoning
Fangzhi Xu, Hang Yan, Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Qiushi Sun, Kanzhi Cheng, Junxian He, Jun Liu, Zhiyong Wu
ACL 2025
φ-Decoding: Adaptive Foresight Sampling for Balanced Inference-Time Exploration and Exploitation
Fangzhi Xu, Hang Yan, Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Jun Liu, Qika Lin, Zhiyong Wu
ACL 2025
Breaking the Data Barrier – Building GUI Agents Through Task Generalization
Junlei Zhang, Zichen Ding, Chang Ma, Zijie Chen, Qiushi Sun, Zhenzhong Lan, Junxian He
COLM 2025
Empowering Large Language Model Agents through Action Learning
Haiteng Zhao, Chang Ma, Guoyin Wang, Jing su, Lingpeng Kong, Jingjing Xu, Zhi-Hong Deng, Hongxia Yang
COLM 2024
Retrieved Sequence Augmentation for Protein Representation Learning
Chang Ma, Haiteng Zhao, Lin Zheng, Jiayi Xin, Qintong Li, Lijun Wu, Zhihong Deng, Yang Lu, Qi Liu, Sheng Wang, Lingpeng Kong
EMNLP 2024
A Survey on Large Language Model-Based Social Agents in Game-Theoretic Scenarios
Xiachong Feng, Longxu Dou, Ella Li, Qinghao Wang, Haochuan Wang, Yu Guo, Chang Ma, Lingpeng Kong
TMLR
A Survey of Neural Code Intelligence: Paradigms, Advances and Beyond
Qiushi Sun, Zhirui Chen, Fangzhi Xu, Chang Ma, Kanzhi Cheng, Zhangyue Yin, Jianing Wang, Chengcheng Han, Renyu Zhu, Shuai Yuan, Pengcheng Yin, Qipeng Guo, Xipeng Qiu, Xiaoli Li, Fei Yuan, Lingpeng Kong, Xiang Li, Zhiyong Wu
Preprint
BioMaze: Benchmarking and Enhancing Large Language Models for Biological Pathway Reasoning
Haiteng Zhao, Chang Ma, Lingpeng Kong, Zhi-Hong Deng
Preprint
GIMLET: A Unified Graph-Text Model for Instruction-Based Molecule Zero-Shot Learning
Haiteng Zhao, Shengchao Liu, Chang Ma, Hannan Xu, Jie Fu, Zhi-Hong Deng, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu
NeurIPS 2023
TorchDrug: A Powerful and Flexible Machine Learning Platform for Drug Discovery
Zhaocheng Zhu, Chence Shi, Zuobai Zhang, Shengchao Liu, Minghao Xu, Xinyu Yuan, Yangtian Zhang, Junkun Chen, Huiyu Cai, Jiarui Lu, Chang Ma, Runcheng Liu, Louis-Pascal Xhonneux, Meng Qu, Jian Tang
Preprint
PEER: A Comprehensive and Multi-Task Benchmark for Protein Sequence Understanding
Minghao Xu, Zuobai Zhang, Jiarui Lu, Zhaocheng Zhu, Yangtian Zhang, Chang Ma, Runcheng Liu, Jian Tang
NeurIPS 2022 Dataset and Benchmark Track
A Challenging Benchmark for Low-Resource Learning
Yudong Wang*, Chang Ma*, Qingxiu Dong, Lingpeng Kong, Jingjing Xu
ACL 2024 Findings
KS-Lottery: Finding Certified Lottery Tickets for Multilingual Language Models
Fei Yuan, Chang Ma, Shuai Yuan, Qiushi Sun, Lei Li
NAACL 2025 Oral
Certified Robustness Against Natural Language Attacks by Causal Intervention
Haiteng Zhao*, Chang Ma*, Xinshuai Dong*, Anh Tuan Luu, Zhi-Hong Deng, Hanwang Zhang
ICML 2022
Domain Adaptation via Mutual Information Maximization
Haiteng Zhao, Chang Ma, Qinyu Chen, Zhihong Deng
IJCAI 2022 Long Presentation
Vitæ
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GenenTech June- 2025Research Intern
gRED, Regev Lab -
Microsoft Research AI4Science April-December 2023Research Intern
Foundation Model Group -
The University of Hong Kong Sep 2022 -Ph.D. Student
CS, NLP -
Microsoft Nov 2021 - June 2022Software Engineer Research Intern
Bing Advertisement Group, NLP -
MILA Jan-Oct 2021Research Intern
DeepGraph Group, Computational Biology -
Nanyang Technological University June-Nov 2021Research Intern
NAIL Group, NLP -
Peking University July 2019 - July 2022Research Assistant
Sigma Lab, Department of Machine Intelligence -
Peking University Sep 2018 - July 2022B.Sc. Student
Machine Intelligence
Miscellaneous
I am a hiking enthusiast and my favorite trail is the MacLehose Trail, Section 2 in Hong Kong. I played piano for 8 years as a child and just started getting back into it. I am a keen fan of Bach and recently learning the Goldberg-Variationen. I love two kinds of elegance -- beautiful music and elegant proof.