Selected Publications

*: indicating equal contribution or alphabetic ordering.

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• Selecting or Solving? What Best-of- Verification Delivers in Video Reasoning
  Martin Q. Ma, Yuxiao Qu, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Louis-Philippe Morency, Paden Tomasello, Juan Pino.
  Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Grounded and Faithful Vision-Language Models for Real-World Deployment (NeurIPS VLM4RWD) 2026.
  [Paper], [Code]

• Act to See: Emergent Active Visual Perception in Video CoT via Tool Use
  Martin Q. Ma, Yuxiao Qu, Willis Guo, Aditya Agrawal, Paul Pu Liang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Louis-Philippe Morency.
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2026.
  [Paper], [Code]

• Video Active Perception: Efficient Inference-Time Long-Form Video Understanding with Vision-Language Models
  Martin Q. Ma, Willis Guo, Aditya Agrawal, Ankit Gupta, Paul Pu Liang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Louis-Philippe Morency.
  ICCV workshop, 2025.
  [Paper], Code

• Seamless Interaction: Dyadic Audiovisual Motion Modeling and Large-Scale Dataset
  Agrawal, Vasu, Akinniyi Akinyemi, Kathryn Alvero, Morteza Behrooz, Julia Buffalini, Fabio Maria Carlucci, Joy Chen et al.
  In submission, 2025.
  [Paper],[Code]

• Factorized Contrastive Learning: Going Beyond Multi-view Redundancy
  Paul Pu Liang*, Zihao Deng*, Martin Q. Ma*, James Zou, Louis-Philippe Morency, Ruslan Salakhutdinov.
  Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023.
  [Paper], [Code]

• Understanding Masked Autoencoders via Hierarchical Latent Variable Models
  Lingjing Kong*, Martin Q. Ma*, Guangyi Chen, Eric Xing, Yuejie Chi, Louis-Philippe Morency, Kun Zhang.
  Highlight, The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2023.
  [Paper], [Video], [Slides], [Code]

• Face-to-Face Contrastive Learning for Social Intelligence Question-Answering
  Alex Wilf*, Martin Q. Ma*, Paul Pu Liang, Amir Zadeh, Louis-Philippe Morency
  International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2023.
  [Paper], [Code]

• Conditional Contrastive Learning with Kernel
  Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai*, Tianqin Li*, Martin Q. Ma, Han Zhao, Kun Zhang, Louis-Philippe Morency, Ruslan Salakhutdinov.
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022.
  [Paper], [Code]

• Conditional Contrastive Learning for Improving Fairness in Self-Supervised Learning
  Martin Q. Ma, Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai, Paul Pu Liang, Han Zhao, Kun Zhang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Louis-Philippe Morency.
  Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning - Theory and Practice (NeurIPS SSL) 2022.
  

  [Paper], [Code]

• Self-supervised Representation Learning with Relative Predictive Coding
  Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai*, Martin Q. Ma*, Muqiao Yang, Han Zhao, Louis-Philippe Morency, Ruslan Salakhutdinov.
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2021.
  Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning - Theory and Practice (NeurIPS SSL) 2020.
  

  [Paper], [Code]

• Multimodal Routing: Improving Local and Global Interpretability of Multimodal Language Analysis
  Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai*, Martin Q. Ma*, Muqiao Yang*, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Louis-Philippe Morency.
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2020.
  [Paper], [Code]

• Complex Transformer: A Framework for Modeling Complex-Valued Sequence
  Muqiao Yang*, Martin Q. Ma*, Dongyu Li*, Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai, Ruslan Salakhutdinov
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, (ICASSP) 2020
  Oral, Neural Information Processing Systems Science meets Engineering of Deep Learning Workshop (NeurIPS SEDL) 2019.
  

  [Paper], [Video], [Slides], [Code]