Yan Ma   马 琰

I am a first-year Ph.D. student from the Department of Computer Science at Fudan University, advised by Prof. Pengfei Liu and Prof. Yu Qiao. Previously, I earned my master's degree from Fudan University in 2023, under the guidance of Prof. Wei Li. Prior to that, I was an undergraduate student of Computer Science at Dalian University of Technology from 2016 to 2020.

Research

I have a broad interest in Creating and Generating Virtual Content. Currently, my primary research interests lie in language model-driven storytelling, including:

• High-quality and Diverse Long Text-based Narratives

• Vision-Text Consistent Multi-modal Storytelling

• Video Storytelling / Physically-aware World Model

Additionally, influenced by my past research experiences, I am also intrigued by Decision-making based on Reinforcement Learning and Physics-based Character Animation.

Education

• 2023.09 -    Now   : Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Fudan University
• 2020.09 - 2023.06 : M.S. in Computer Application Technology, Fudan University
• 2016.09 - 2020.06 : B.Eng. in Computer Science, Dalian University of Technology

Publication

• 
  MoPS: Modular Story Premise Synthesis for Open-Ended Automatic Story Generation
  Yan Ma, Yu Qiao, Pengfei Liu
  Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024

  paper / arxiv / code
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  Open-Ended Diverse Solution Discovery with Regulated Behavior Patterns for Cross-Domain Adaptation
  Kang Xu, Yan Ma, Bingsheng Wei, Wei Li
  Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023

  paper / arxiv
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  Dynamics-aware novelty search with behavior repulsion
  Kang Xu, Yan Ma, Wei Li
  Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2022

  paper
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  Evolutionary Action Selection for Gradient-Based Policy Learning
  Yan Ma, Tianxing Liu, Bingsheng Wei, Yi Liu, Kang Xu, Wei Li
  International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2022 (Oral)

  paper / arxiv

Project

• 
  Awesome-Story-Generation
  An extensive list of awesome papers about Story Generation / Storytelling, primarily focusing on the era of Large Language Models (LLMs).
  Contributor, mainly maintained by Yingpeng Ma.
• 
  Dotfiles: Configuration files for Linux
  My linux configuration dotfiles (including neovim/astronvim, tmux, bash, jupyter, etc).
  I am a vimer (●'◡'●).
• 
  RL Plot: Reinforcement Learning Plot Library
  An easy to use and highly encapsulated RL plot library (including basic error bar lineplot and a wrapper to rliable).

Experience

• 
  Shanghai AI Laboratory - Research Intern (Jul.2023 - Now)
  Advisor: Pengfei Liu & Yu Qiao
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  Generative AI Research Lab - Ph.D. Member (May.2023 - Now)
  Homepage
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  Netease Games AI Laboratory - Research Intern (Jul.2022 - Sep.2022)
  Advisor: Sijia Xu
Last Update: May 18, 2024