Publications

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Conference Papers

Architecture-Agnostic Test-Time Adaptation via Backprop-Free Embedding Alignment
Xiao Ma, Young D. Kwon, Pan Zhou, Dong Ma
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
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DiTMoS: Delving into Diverse Tiny-Model Selection on Microcontrollers
Xiao Ma, Shengfeng He, Hezhe Qiao, Dong Ma
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2024
🏆 Mark Weiser Best Paper Award
📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 📊 Slides

Lightweight and Non-Invasive User Authentication on Earables
Changshuo Hu, Xiao Ma, Dong Ma, Ting Dang
International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile) 2022
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Workshop Papers

Efficient Test-Time Adaptation via Decoupled BN Update For Edge Devices
Xiao Ma, Young D. Kwon, Dong Ma
3rd Workshop on Test-Time Updates (TTU), ICLR 2026
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Journal Papers

EmbodiTTA: Resource-Efficient Test-Time Adaptation for Embodied Visual Systems
Xiao Ma, Young D. Kwon, Dong Ma
IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2026 (To appear)

PPG-Sport: A Dataset for Reliable Heart Rate Monitoring from Wrist PPG Under Dynamic Sports Conditions
Changshuo Hu, Hung Manh Pham, Yiming Zhang, Guanru Yan, Xiao Ma, et al.
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 2026
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Towards Diverse Tiny-Model Selection for Microcontrollers
Xiao Ma, Shengfeng He, Hezhe Qiao, Dong Ma
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) 2025
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LR-Auth: Towards Practical Implementation of Implicit User Authentication on Earbuds
Changshuo Hu, Xiao Ma, Xinger Huang, Yiran Shen, Dong Ma
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 2024
🏆 Distinguished Paper Award
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A damage detection system for inner bore of electromagnetic railgun launcher based on deep learning and computer vision
Yu Zhou, Ronggang Cao, Ping Li, Xiao Ma, Xueyi Hu, Fadong Li
Expert Systems with Applications 2022
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A calibration method of inner bore profile detecting on electromagnetic railgun
Xiao Ma, Ronggang Cao, Yu Zhou, Xueyi Hu, Fadong Li
IEEE Sensors Journal 2021
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Analysis about Change of the Armature’s Average Speed for an Experimental Rail Launcher
Ronggang Cao, Xiao Ma, Guangwei Zhang, Xueyi Hu, Yu Zhou
IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2021
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Preprints

PulseLM: A Foundation Dataset and Benchmark for PPG-Text Learning
Hung Manh Pham, Jinyang Wu, Xiao Ma, Yiming Zhang, Yixin Xu, Aaqib Saeed, Bin Zhu, Zhou Pan, Dong Ma
arXiv preprint 2026
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On-demand Test-time Adaptation for Edge Devices
Xiao Ma, Young D. Kwon, Dong Ma
arXiv preprint 2025
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Last updated: September 2026