Chenming Tang

Chenming Tang

Master's student in computer science. Working on Computational Linguistics (CL) & Natural Language Processing (NLP).

About Me

Hi, I’m Chenming Tang – a Master’s student in Computer Science at Peking University, advised by Prof. Yunfang Wu. Before that, I got my Bachelor’s degree at School of EECS, Peking University. My research spans various facets of NLP and generally aims to make LMs better assistants for human in various aspects.

Agentic reinforcement learningLM memoryLM personalizationFinancial LMs

I’m actively seeking a PhD opportunity for Fall 2027 (US, SG and HK preferred), and I’d love to connect with like-minded academic researchers.

For an in-depth overview of my background and accomplishments, please feel free to check out CV Contact

Education

 2024 - Present M.S. (Academic) in Computer Science Peking University

 2020 - 2024 B.S. in Computer Science Peking University

Selected Publications

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Do Not Step Into the Same River Twice: Learning to Reason from Trial and Error   ACL 2026

Chenming Tang, Hsiu-Yuan Huang, Weijie Liu, Clive Bai, Saiyong Yang, Yunfang Wu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
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Aligning Language Models with Real-time Knowledge Editing   ACL 2026

Chenming Tang*, Yutong Yang*, Kexue Wang, Yunfang Wu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
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Large Language Models Might Not Care What You Are Saying: Prompt Format Beats Descriptions   EMNLP 2025 Findings

Chenming Tang*, Zhixiang Wang*, Hao Sun, Yunfang Wu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
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SCOI: Syntax-augmented Coverage-based In-context Example Selection for Machine Translation   EMNLP 2024

Chenming Tang, Zhixiang Wang, Yunfang Wu
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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Ungrammatical-syntax-based In-context Example Selection for Grammatical Error Correction   NAACL 2024

Chenming Tang, Fanyi Qu, Yunfang Wu
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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Are Pre-trained Language Models Useful for Model Ensemble in Chinese Grammatical Error Correction?   ACL 2023

Chenming Tang, Xiuyu Wu, Yunfang Wu
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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Internship

 Jul 2025 - Jun 2026 Research Intern Tencent HY

Honors and Awards

 2024 Outstanding Graduate Peking University

 2023 Exceptional Award for Academic Innovation Peking University

 2023 Merit Student Peking University

 2023 First prize NLPCC 2023 Shared Task 1 (Chinese Grammatical Error Correction)

 2022 Second place CCL 2022 Shared Task 4 (Multi-reference Multi-source Chinese Learner Text Correction)

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I aim to pursue a career in academia rather than industry. I prioritize intellectual freedom over short-term commercial outcomes. I also place a high value on work-life balance, as I believe sustainable pace and well-being are essential for durable, creative, and thoughtful research.

When I am not doing research, I enjoy investment, practice the art of Chinese calligraphy, and listen to music by Vivaldi, Bach, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, et al. One of my favorite music works these months is Symphony No. 4 by Brahms.