Selected Publications

• Cognitive kernel: An open-source agent system towards generalist autopilots
  Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Hongwei Wang, Kaixin Ma*, Wenhao Yu, Dong Yu
  Arxiv 2024.09 [pdf]

• Leopard: A Vision Language Model For Text-Rich Multi-Image Tasks
  Mengzhao Jia, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Tianqing Fang, Zhihan Zhang, Siru Ouyang, Hongming Zhang, Meng Jiang, Dong Yu
  Arxiv 2024.10 [pdf]

• RepoGraph: Enhancing AI Software Engineering with Repository-level Code Graph
  Siru Ouyang, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Zilin Xiao, Zhihan Zhang, Mengzhao Jia, Jiawei Han, Hongming Zhang, Dong Yu
  Arxiv 2024.10 [pdf]

• DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents to Becoming Data Science Experts?
  Liqiang Jing, Zhehui Huang, Xiaoyang Wang, Wenlin Yao, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Hongming Zhang, Xinya Du, Dong Yu
  Arxiv 2024.09 [pdf]

• WebVoyager: Building an End-to-End Web Agent with Large Multimodal Models
  Hongliang He, Wenlin Yao, Kaixin Ma, Wenhao Yu, Yong Dai, Hongming Zhang, Zhenzhong Lan, Dong Yu
  ACL 2024 [pdf]

• Dense X Retrieval: What Retrieval Granularity Should We Use?
  Tong Chen, Hongwei Wang, Sihao Chen, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Xinran Zhao, Hongming Zhang, Dong Yu
  EMNLP 2024 [pdf]

• Chain-of-Note: Enhancing Robustness in Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
  Wenhao Yu, Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Kaixin Ma, Hongwei Wang, Dong Yu
  EMNLP 2024 [pdf]

• LASER: LLM Agent with State-Space Exploration for Web Navigation
  Kaixin Ma, Hongming Zhang, Hongwei Wang, Xiaoman Pan, Dong Yu
  FMDM@Neurips 2023 [pdf]

• BRAINTEASER: Lateral Thinking Puzzles for Large Language Models
  Yifan Jiang, Filip Ilievski, Kaixin Ma, Zhivar Sourati
  EMNLP 2023 [pdf]

• Chain-of-Skills: A Configurable Model for Open-domain Question Answering
  Kaixin Ma*, Hao Cheng*, Yu Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Eric Nyberg, Jianfeng Gao
  ACL 2023 [pdf] [code]

• A Study of Situational Reasoning for Traffic Understanding
  Jiarui Zhang, Filip Ilievski, Kaixin Ma, Aravinda Kollaa, Jonathan Francis, Alessandro Oltramari
  KDD 2023 [pdf]

• Transferring Procedural Knowledge across Commonsense Tasks
  Yifan Jiang, Filip Ilievski, Kaixin Ma
  ECAI 2023 [pdf]

• Open-domain Question Answering via Chain of Reasoning over Heterogeneous Knowledge
  Kaixin Ma*, Hao Cheng*, Xiaodong Liu, Eric Nyberg, Jianfeng Gao
  Findings of EMNLP 2022 [pdf] [code]

• Coalescing Global and Local Information for Procedural Text Understanding
  Kaixin Ma, Filip Ilievski, Jonathan Francis, Eric Nyberg, Alessandro Oltramari
  COLING 2022 [pdf] [code]

• A Study of Zero-shot Adaptation with Commonsense Knowledge
  Jiarui Zhang, Filip Ilievski, Kaixin Ma, Jonathan Francis, Alessandro Oltramari
  AKBC 2022 [pdf]

• Open-domain Question Answering with a Unified Knowledge Interface
  Kaixin Ma*, Hao Cheng*, Xiaodong Liu, Eric Nyberg, Jianfeng Gao
  ACL 2022 [pdf] [code]

• Exploring Strategies for Generalizable Commonsense Reasoning with Pre-trained Models
  Kaixin Ma, Filip Ilievski, Jonathan Francis, Satoru Ozaki, Eric Nyberg, Alessandro Oltramari
  EMNLP 2021 [pdf] [code]

• Dimensions of Commonsense Knowledge
  Filip Ilievski, Alessandro Oltramari, Kaixin Ma, Bin Zhang, Deborah L McGuinness, Pedro Szekely
  Knowledge-Based Systems [pdf]

• Audio-Visual Event Recognition through the lens of Adversary
  Juncheng B Li, Kaixin Ma, Shuhui Qu, Po-Yao Huang, Florian Metze
  ICASSP 2021 [pdf]

• Knowledge-driven Data Construction for Zero-shot Evaluation in Commonsense Question Answering
  Kaixin Ma, Filip Ilievski, Jonathan Francis, Yonatan Bisk, Eric Nyberg, Alessandro Oltramari
  AAAI 2021 [pdf] [code]

• Towards Generalizable Neuro-symbolic Systems for Commonsense Question Answering
  Kaixin Ma, Jonathan Francis, Quanyang Lu, Eric Nyberg, Alessandro Oltramari
  COIN@EMNLP 2019 [pdf] [code]

• Bend but Don’t Break? Multi-Challenge Stress Test for QA Models
  Hemant Pugaliya*, James Route*, Kaixin Ma*, Yixuan Geng, Eric Nyberg
  MRQA@EMNLP 2019 [pdf]

• ElderReact: A Multimodal Dataset For Recognizing Emotional Response in Aging Adults
  Kaixin Ma*, Xinyu Wang*, Xinru Yang, Mingtong Zhang, Jeffrey M Girard, Louis-Philippe Morency
  ICMI 2019 [pdf] [data]

• Challenging Reading Comprehension on Daily Conversation: Passage Completion on Multiparty Dialog
  Kaixin Ma, Tomasz Jurczyk, Jinho D. Choi
  NAACL 2018 [pdf] [code]

Patents

• Knowledge-Driven and Self-Supervised System for Question-Answering
  Alessandro Oltramari, Jonathan Francis, Kaixin Ma, Filip Ilievski
  (Filed US Patent App. 17/091,499)

• Computerized Question Answering Based on Evidence Chains
  Hao Cheng, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Kaixin Ma
  (Filed US Patent App. 17/938,204)