Yunsheng Ma

Researcher, AI Foundations, Waymo

Joined

February 2023

Names

Yunsheng Ma (Preferred)

Emails

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Career & Education History

Researcher

AI Foundations, Waymo (google.com)

2026 – Present

Intern

Research, Waymo (google.com)

2025 – 2025

Intern

Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Bosch Research North America (bosch.com)

2024 – 2025

PhD student

College of Engineering, Purdue University (purdue.edu)

2023 – 2025

Intern

Toyota North America (toyota.com)

2024 – 2024

MS student

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (nyu.edu)

2020 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ziran Wang

2023 – 2025

Expertise

Multimodal LLMs

Vision Language Models

Foundation Models

2023 – Present

Autonomous Driving

Perception

2022 – Present

Computer Vision

Video Understanding

2018 – Present

Publications

The Clever Hans Mirage: A Comprehensive Survey on Spurious Correlations in Machine Learning
Wenqian Ye, Luyang Jiang, Eric Xie, Guangtao Zheng, Yunsheng Ma, Xu Cao, Dongliang Guo, Daiqing Qi, Zeyu He, Yijun Tian, Christopher W. Porter, Megan Coffee, Zhe Zeng, Sheng Li, Ziran Wang, Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang, James Matthew Rehg, Henry Kautz, Aidong Zhang
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
What is the Visual Cognition Gap between Humans and Multimodal LLMs?
Xu Cao, Yifan Shen, Bolin Lai, Wenqian Ye, Yunsheng Ma, Joerg Heintz, Jintai Chen, Meihuan Huang, Jianguo Cao, Aidong Zhang, James Matthew Rehg
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
NuPlanQA: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Multi-View Driving Scene Understanding in Multi-Modal Large Language Models
Sung-Yeon Park, Can Cui, Yunsheng Ma, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Rohit Gupta, Kyungtae Han, Ziran Wang
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Benchmarking Visual Cognition of Multimodal LLMs via Matrix Reasoning
Xu Cao, Bolin Lai, Wenqian Ye, Yunsheng Ma, Joerg Heintz, Meihuan Huang, Jintai Chen, Jianguo Cao, Aidong Zhang, James Matthew Rehg
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MM-SpuBench: Towards Better Understanding of Spurious Biases in Multimodal LLMs
Wenqian Ye, Guangtao Zheng, Yunsheng Ma, Xu Cao, Bolin Lai, James Matthew Rehg, Aidong Zhang
- NeurIPS 2024 Workshop RBFM Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Receive, Reason, and React: Drive as You Say, With Large Language Models in Autonomous Vehicles
Can Cui, Yunsheng Ma, Xu Cao, Wenqian Ye, Ziran Wang
- IEEE Intell. Transp. Syst. Mag. 2024
- Readers: Everyone
MTA: Multimodal Task Alignment for BEV Perception and Captioning
Yunsheng Ma, Burhaneddin Yaman, Xin Ye, Feng Tao, Abhirup Mallik, Ziran Wang, Liu Ren
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
MAPLM: A Real-World Large-Scale Vision-Language Benchmark for Map and Traffic Scene Understanding
Xu Cao, Tong Zhou, Yunsheng Ma, Wenqian Ye, Can Cui, Kun Tang, Zhipeng Cao, Kaizhao Liang, Ziran Wang, James M. Rehg, Chao Zheng
- CVPR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Autonomous Driving Tasks via Human Feedbacks with Large Language Models
Yunsheng Ma, Xu Cao, Wenqian Ye, Can Cui, Kai Mei, Ziran Wang
- EMNLP (Findings) 2024
- Readers: Everyone
A Survey on Multimodal Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving
Can Cui, Yunsheng Ma, Xu Cao, Wenqian Ye, Yang Zhou, Kaizhao Liang, Jintai Chen, Juanwu Lu, Zichong Yang, Kuei-Da Liao, Tianren Gao, Erlong Li, Kun Tang, Zhipeng Cao, Tong Zhou, Ao Liu, Xinrui Yan, Shuqi Mei, Jianguo Cao, Ziran Wang et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- WACV (Workshops) 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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