Yuqing Ma（马宇晴）

Research Interests : LLM alignment · Agent Reasoning · Embodied intelligence · AI for Mental Illness and Brain Science

Academic Appointments: Youth Editorial Board, Journal of Intelligent Safety | Workshop Chair, IJCAI (3 consecutive editions) | Deputy Chief Referee, AI Engineering Technology, 2nd National Vocational Skills Competition

Email: mayuqing@buaa.edu.cn | vickyfoxmyq@gmail.com

Academic Group

PhD Candidates (8)

Tianbo Wang, Zhange Zhang, Yajun Gao, Duorui Wang, Chujie Xu, Xiangyang Xun, Jingbin Shi, Xiaotong Zhu

Master Students (4)

Yulong Wang, Zhicheng Geng, Yudie Wang, Kewei Liao

Group Life

IJCAI 2025

Psychiatric Assoc 2024

Shandong Brain Science

ACL 2025 Vienna

Prospective Interns

We are always looking for highly motivated visiting interns who are passionate about LLM and brain-inspired computing. If you have a solid background in deep learning and strong coding skills (PyTorch / Python), please send your CV + transcript + one-page research statement to tianbowang@buaa.edu.cn. We look forward to your joining us!

Updates

Our textbook 人工智能安全导论 (introduction to AI Security) has been published. Available on JD and Taobao.
Jan, 2026: one paper accepted for ICLR.
Oct, 2025: Best Paper Award, RichMediaGenAI Workshop @ ACM Multimedia.
Jul, 2025: Outstanding Paper Award, MAS-2025 Workshop @ ICML.
Selected into Beijing High-tech Innovation Plan Youth Talent Support Project.
Nov, 2025: three papers accepted for AAAI.
Sep, 2025: two papers accepted for NeurIPS.
Oct, 2025: one paper accepted for TMM.
Aug, 2025: one paper accepted for EMNLP.
Jul, 2025: one paper accepted for Neural Networks.
Jul, 2025: one paper accepted for ACL.
Apr, 2025: First Prize, AI Challenge of the 9th Young Medical Physics Scholars Conference.
Apr, 2025: 5th Place, Generalizable Dose Prediction for Heterogenous Multi-Cohort & Multi-Site Radiotherapy Planning Challenge (GDP-HMM).
Apr, 2025: one paper accepted for WWW.
Apr, 2025: two papers accepted for IJCAI.
Mar, 2025: one paper accepted for Pattern Recognition.
Feb, 2024: one paper accepted for Science China (Information Sciences).

Publications

CASE: Conflict-assessed Knowledge-sensitive Neuron Tuning for Lifelong Model Editing.
Zhange Zhang, Yuqing Ma, Yulong Wang, Tianbo Wang, Jiakai Wang, Simin Li, Xianglong Liu
WWW, 2026.

Query-Routed Activation Editing with Truth-hierarchical Preference Optimization.
Kewei Liao, Tianbo Wang, Yuqing Ma, Zhange Zhang, Zhicheng Geng, Xiaowei Zhao, Jiakai Wang, Xianglong Liu
AAAI, 2026.

Conflict-Aware Knowledge Editing in the Wild: Semantic-Augmented Graph Representation for Unstructured Text.
Zhange Zhang, Zhicheng Geng, Yuqing Ma, Tianbo Wang, Kai Lv, Xianglong Liu
NeurIPS, 2025.

Lexical Diversity-aware Relevance Assessment for Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Zhange Zhang, Yuqing Ma, Yulong Wang, Shan He, Tianbo Wang, Siqi He, Jiakai Wang, Xianglong Liu
ACL, 2025.
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Inversed Pyramid Network with Spatial-adapted and Task-oriented Tuning for few-shot learning.
Xiaowei Zhao, Duorui Wang, Shihao Bai, Shuo Wang, Yajun Gao, Yu Liang, Yuqing Ma, Xianglong Liu
Pattern Recognition, 2025.
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Dual Intention Escape: Penetrating and Toxic Jailbreak Attack against Large Language Models.
Yanni Xue, Jiakai Wang, Zixin Yin, Yuqing Ma, Haotong Qin, Renshuai Tao, Xianglong Liu
The ACM on Web Conference, 2025.
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Token-Aware Inference-Time Intervention for Large Language Model Alignment.
Tianbo Wang, Yuqing Ma, Kewei Liao, Chengzhao Yang, Zhange Zhang, Jiakai Wang, Xianglong Liu.
EMNLP, 2025.
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CognitMoE: A cognition-aware collaborative multi-expert network for bipolar disorder diagnosis.
Xiaotong Zhu, Yudie Wang, Yuqing Ma, Zhange Zhang, Yujun Gao
NN, 2025.
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Continuous Diffusive Prediction Network for Multi-Station Weather Prediction.
Chujie Xu, Yuqing Ma*, Haoyuan Deng, Yajun Gao, Yudie Wang, Kai Lv, Xianglong Liu
IJCAI, 2025.

SeeMore: a spatiotemporal predictive model with bidirectional distillation and level-specific meta-adaptation.
Yuqing Ma, Wei Liu, Yajun Gao, Yang Yuan, Shihao Bai, Haotong Qin, Xianglong Liu
Science China Information Sciences, 2024.
[pdf] [code]

Annealing-based Label-Transfer Learning for Open World Object Detection.
Yuqing Ma, Hainan Li, Zhange Zhang, Jinyang Guo, Shanghang Zhang, Ruihao Gong, Xianglong Liu
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023.
[pdf] [code]

Towards Real-world X-ray Security Inspection: A High-quality Benchmark and Lateral Inhibition Module for Prohibited Items Detection.
Renshuai Tao, Yanlu Wei, Xiangjian Jiang, Hainan Li, Haotong Qin, Jiakai Wang, Yuqing Ma, Libo Zhang, Xianglong Liu.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’2021).
[pdf] [code]

Stratified Rule-Aware Network for Abstract Visual Reasoning.
Sheng Hu*, Yuqing Ma*, Xianglong Liu, Yanlu Wei, Shihao Bai (* equal contribution)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2021).
[pdf] [code] [bibtex]

Occluded Prohibited Items Detection: an X-ray Security Inspection Benchmark and De-occlusion Attention Module.
Yanlu Wei, Renshuai Tao, Zhangjie Wu, Yuqing Ma, Libo Zhang, Xianglong Liu
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM’20).
[pdf] [code] [bibtex]

Spatiotemporal Attacks for Embodied Agents.
Aishan Liu, Tairan Huang, Xianglong Liu, Yitao Xu, Yuqing Ma, Xinyun Chen, Stephen Maybank, Dacheng Tao
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV’20).
[pdf] [code] [media]

Few-shot Visual Learning with Contextual Memory and Fine-grained Calibration.
Yuqing Ma, Shihao Bai, Wei Liu, Qingyu Zhang, Aishan Liu, Weimin Chen, Xianglong Liu
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’20)
[pdf] [code]

Transductive Relation-Propagation Network for Few-shot Learning.
Yuqing Ma, Shihao Bai, Shan An, Wei Liu, Aishan Liu, Xiantong Zhen, Xianglong Liu
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’20)
[pdf] [code]

Main Awards & Honors

Best Paper Award, RichMediaGenAI Workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2025
Outstanding Paper Award, MAS-2025 Workshop @ ICML 2025
Selected for Beijing High-tech Innovation Plan Youth Talent Support Project, 2025
First Prize in the Artificial Intelligence Challenge of the 9th Annual Conference of Young Medical Physics Scholars, 2025
the 5th Place Team of The Generalizable Dose Prediction for Heterogenous Multi-Cohort and Multi-Site Radiotherapy Planning Challenge, 2025
Bronze Medal of the 17th Beijing Invention and Innovation Competition, Beijing Invention Association, Beijing Workers and Technical Association, 2023
Top Ten Outstanding Papers in Intelligent Security, Editorial Department of Intelligent Security, 2024

Main Co-authors

Xianglong Liu

Aishan Liu

Jinyang Guo

Jiakai Wang