Publications

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† indicates equal contribution.

2026

• GIFT: Unlocking Global Optimality in Post-Training via Finite-Temperature Gibbs Initialization
  Zhengyang Zhao†, Lu Ma†, Yizhen Jiang, Xiaochen Ma, Zimo Meng, Chengyu Shen, Lexiang Tang, Haoze Sun, Peng Pei, Wentao Zhang
  arXiv Preprint, Jan 2026
  arXiv

2025

• Leash: Adaptive Length Penalty and Reward Shaping for Efficient Large Reasoning Models
  Yanhao Li†, Lu Ma†, Jiaran Zhang, Lexiang Tang, Wentao Zhang, Guibo Luo
  Preprint, Dec 2025
  arXiv

• DataFlow: An LLM-Driven Framework for Unified Data Preparation and Workflow Automation in the Era of Data-Centric AI
  Hao Liang, Xiaochen Ma, Zhou Liu, Zhen Hao Wong, Zhengyang Zhao, Zimo Meng, Runming He, Chengyu Shen, Qifeng Cai, Zhaoyang Han, Meiyi Qiang, Yalin Feng, Tianyi Bai, Zewei Pan, Ziyi Guo, Yizhen Jiang, Jingwen Deng, Qijie You, Peichao Lai, Tianyu Guo, Chi Hsu Tsai, Hengyi Feng, Rui Hu, Wenkai Yu, Junbo Niu, Bohan Zeng, Ruichuan An, Lu Ma, Jihao Huang, Yaowei Zheng, Conghui He, Linpeng Tang, Bin Cui, Wentao Zhang
  Preprint, Dec 2025
  arXiv

• DARO: Difficulty-Aware Reweighting Policy Optimization
  Jingyu Zhou†, Lu Ma†, Hao Liang, Chengyu Shen, Bin Cui, Wentao Zhang
  Preprint, Oct 2025
  arXiv

• Learning What Reinforcement Learning Can’t: Interleaved Online Fine-Tuning for the Hardest Questions
  Lu Ma, Hao Liang, Meiyi Qiang, Lexiang Tang, Xiaochen Ma, Zhen Hao Wong, Junbo Niu, Chengyu Shen, Runming He, Yanhao Li, Bin Cui, Wentao Zhang
  ICLR, 2026
  arXiv

• Native Visual Understanding: Resolving Resolution Dilemmas in Vision-Language Models
  Junbo Niu, Yuanhong Zheng, Ziyang Miao, Hejun Dong, Chunjiang Ge, Hao Liang, Lu Ma, Bohan Zeng, Qiahao Zheng, Conghui He, Wentao Zhang
  Preprint, Jun 2025

• Not All Tokens and Heads Are Equally Important: Dual-Level Attention Intervention for Hallucination Mitigation
  Lexiang Tang, Xianwei Zhuang, Bang Yang, Zhiyuan Hu, Hongxiang Li, Lu Ma, Jinghan Ru, Yuexian Zou
  AAAI, 2025
  arXiv

• Acceleration Algorithms in GNNs: A Survey
  Lu Ma, Zeang Sheng, Xunkai Li, Xinyi Gao, Zhezheng Hao, Ling Yang, Xiaonan Nie, Jiawei Jiang, Wentao Zhang, Bin Cui
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2025
  IEEE Xplore