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Gengchen Ma
dblp:396/9421
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5ranked-venue papers
2as first author
5since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0002-3841-9889ORCID · corroborated
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 2 · 2 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Knowledge representation and reasoning · 30% Multi-agent systems · 30% Information extraction and text analysis · 30% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Medical and health informatics · 100% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 7, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
argumentation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | From Answers to Arguments: Toward Trustworthy Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning with Toulmin-Guided Curriculum Goal-Conditioned Learning · ACL (1) 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Information extraction and text analysis › information retrieval
knowledge retrieval |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Curiosity Driven Knowledge Retrieval for Mobile Agents · WWW 2026 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Multi-agent systems › autonomous agents
mobile agents |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Curiosity Driven Knowledge Retrieval for Mobile Agents · WWW 2026 |
Medical and health informatics
clinical decision support |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | From Answers to Arguments: Toward Trustworthy Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning with Toulmin-Guided Curriculum Goal-Conditioned Learning · ACL (1) 2026 |
Medical and health informatics › clinical diagnosis
diagnostic reasoning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | From Answers to Arguments: Toward Trustworthy Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning with Toulmin-Guided Curriculum Goal-Conditioned Learning · ACL (1) 2026 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Planning, search and constraint satisfaction › planning
agent planning |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Curiosity Driven Knowledge Retrieval for Mobile Agents · WWW 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reinforcement learning · 2.0curriculum goal-conditioned learning · 2.0large language model · 1.0curiosity-driven retrieval · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | From Answers to Arguments: Toward Trustworthy Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning with Toulmin-Guided Curriculum Goal-Conditioned LearningabstractThe integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into clinical decision support is critically obstructed by their opaque and often unreliable reasoning.In the high-stakes domain of healthcare, correct answers alone are insufficient; clinical practice demands full transparency to ensure patient safety and enable professional accountability.A pervasive and dangerous weakness of current LLMs is their tendency to produce "correct answers through flawed reasoning."This issue is far more than a minor academic flaw; such process errors signal a fundamental lack of robust understanding, making the model prone to broader hallucinations and unpredictable failures when faced with real-world clinical complexity.In this paper, we establish a framework for trustworthy clinical argumentation by adapting the Toulmin model to the diagnostic process.We propose a novel training pipeline: Curriculum Goal-Conditioned Learning (CGCL), designed to progressively train LLM to generate diagnostic arguments that explicitly follow this Toulmin structure.CGCL's progressive three-stage curriculum systematically builds a solid clinical argument: (1) extracting facts and generating differential diagnoses; (2) justifying a core hypothesis while rebutting alternatives; and (3) synthesizing the analysis into a final, qualified conclusion.We validate CGCL using T-Eval, a quantitative framework measuring the integrity of the diagnosis reasoning.Experiments show that our method achieves diagnostic accuracy and reasoning quality comparable to resourceintensive Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods, while offering a more stable and efficient training pipeline.1 Chen Zhan, Xiaoyu Tan, Gengchen Ma, Yujie Xiong, Xihe Qiu |
ACL (1) | 3 |
| 2026 | Curiosity Driven Knowledge Retrieval for Mobile AgentsabstractMobile agents have made progress toward reliable smartphone automation, yet performance in complex applications remains limited by incomplete knowledge and weak generalization to unseen environments. We introduce a curiosity driven knowledge retrieval framework that formalizes uncertainty during execution as a curiosity score. When this score exceeds a threshold, the system retrieves external information from documentation, code repositories, and historical trajectories. Retrieved content is organized into structured AppCards, which encode functional semantics, parameter conventions, interface mappings, and interaction patterns. During execution, an enhanced agent selectively integrates relevant AppCards into its reasoning process, thereby compensating for knowledge blind spots and improving planning reliability. Evaluation on the AndroidWorld benchmark shows consistent improvements across backbones, with an average gain of six percentage points and a new state of the art success rate of 88.8% when combined with GPT-5. Analysis indicates that AppCards are particularly effective for multi step and cross application tasks, while improvements depend on the backbone model. Case studies further confirm that AppCards reduce ambiguity, shorten exploration, and support stable execution trajectories. Task trajectories are publicly available at https://lisalsj.github.io/Droidrun-appcard/. Xiaoyu Tan, Shahir Ali, Niels Schmidt, Gengchen Ma, Xihe Qiu |
WWW | 5 |
| 2026 | What the doodle: Sketching mental pictures with decoding brain signals, language understanding, and AI creativity
Gengchen Ma, Haoyu Wang 0011, Fenghao Sun, Chen Zhan, Xiaoyu Tan, Xihe Qiu |
Expert Syst. Appl. | 1 |
| 2025 | Robust Sleep Stage Prediction from Electroencephalogram with Label Noise Using Multimodal Large Language Models
Xihe Qiu, Chen Zhan, Gengchen Ma, Xiaoyu Tan |
MICCAI (6) | 3 |
| 2025 | Intelligent audio processing methodology for operational risk reduction in complex industrial process control systems
Gengchen Ma, Haichao Xu, Anji Li 0002 |
J. Supercomput. | 1 |