🧑‍🔬 Qian Ma

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Pennsylvania State UniversityState College · United States2026 · 3 paperscurrent🎓Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTroy · United States2025–2026 · 3 paperscurrent

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Ground Then Rank: Revisiting Knowledge-Based VQA with Training-Free Entity Identification (2026 · 1 citation)
   Knowledge-based VQA requires facts that the image alone does not show. Multimodal LLMs often fail at it because they must recognise the exact real-world entity and then find the right supporting passage. The authors argue that most MM-RAG pipelines merge these two grounding steps into one costly, trained multimodal…
2. Private Seeds, Public LLMs: Realistic and Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data Generation (2026)
   Sensitive text, such as social media posts with self-disclosures or clinical notes, often cannot be shared.

🤝 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

• Yao Ma

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ×2: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026 ×2

Updated 1 November 2026

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