Research

A collection of my research work.

Behavior Learning (BL)

Zhenyao Ma, Yue Liang, Dongxu Li

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

Inspired by behavioral science, we propose Behavior Learning (BL), a novel general-purpose ML framework that learns (hierarchical) optimization structures from data, as a promising alternative to neural network for scientific domains involving optimization.

Human Social Preferences in Simple and Complex Decisions

With Sen Geng, Menglong Guan

Working Paper 2026

Social preferences capture human motives beyond self-interest, such as kindness and moral concern. In this, we study how complexity endogenously affects social preferences.