Hi! I am Chenming SHANG (尚辰铭). I am currently a master student (3rd year) in Intelligent Interaction Group (IIG), Tsinghua University, supervised by Prof. Yujiu Yang. I received my bachelor’s degree in Intelligent Science and Technology from Sun Yat-sen University in 2022, advised by Prof. Zhi Jin.

My research interests lie in cognitive science-inspired AI and trustworthy AI in multimodal models, including interpretability and generalization. The research topics I am currently interested in are concept-based models, compositional generalization, and human‑computer interaction. I hope to make AI spontaneously summarize concepts from data as human does, enabling the infinite combination of finite concepts to achieve generalization in unknown scenarios. Meanwhile, I believe that in the current era of enhanced general AI capabilities, AI interaction with humans and human‑centered AI can create more value.

Now I am looking for an intern or a research assistant position, and I also have plans to pursue a Ph.D. position on 2025 fall. If you are willing to offer cooperation opportunities, please feel free to contact me.

🎓 Education

Tsinghua University

  • Aug. 2022 - Present, Master’s Degree in Electronic and Information Engineering, GPA 3.93 / 4.00 (Top 5% of School)

Sun Yat-sen University

  • Sept. 2018 - Jul. 2022, Bachelor’s Degree in Intelligent Science and Technology, GPA 4.1 / 5.0 (Top 5% of Major)

💻 Interships

Microsoft Research, AI4Science, Beijing

  • June 2024 - Present, Algorithm Research Intern, AI for Biology and Out-of-Distribution Generalization

ByteDance, TikTok, Beijing

  • Jan. 2024 - June 2024, Algorithm Engineering Intern, Causal Inference and Recommendation System

Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Beijing

  • June 2023 - Dec. 2023, Algorithm Research Intern, Model Interpretability and Compositional Generalization

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing

  • Jan. 2023 - June 2023, Algorithm Research Intern, Data-Centric AI and Model Interpretability

Source Code Capital, Shenzhen

  • Dec. 2021 - May 2022, Investment Analysis Intern, Artificial Intelligence

Huatai Securities, Shenzhen

  • Aug. 2021 - Dec. 2021, Algorithm Research Intern, Time Series

📝 Projects

Papers on Computer Vision:

CVPR 2024
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Incremental Residual Concept Bottleneck Models

Chenming Shang, Shiji Zhou, Hengyuan Zhang, Xinzhe Ni, Yujiu Yang, Yuwang Wang

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  • Our work primarily addresses the challenges of completeness, purity and precision in previous methods.
  • We utilize the multimodal model CLIP to extract and discover concepts, and design interpretable classification model to enhance the interpretability and few-shot generalization ability of the algorithm.
  • We propose the Incremental Residual Concept Bottleneck Models (Res-CBM) to address the challenge of concept completeness and the Concept Utilization Efficiency (CUE) metric to measure the descriptive efficiency of CBMs.
CogSci 2024
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Understanding Multimodal Deep Neural Networks: A Concept Selection View

Chenming Shang, Hengyuan Zhang, Hao Wen, Yujiu Yang

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  • We observe the long-tail distribution of concepts, based on which we propose a two-stage Concept Selection Model (CSM) to mine core concepts without introducing any human priors.
  • The concept greedy rough selection algorithm is applied to extract head concepts, and then the concept mask fine selection method performs the extraction of core concepts.
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Compositional Generalization through Brain-inspired Geometric Constraints on Representation Structure

Chenming Shang, Shiji Zhou, Hengyuan Zhang, Xinchen Zhang, Lei Ke, Yuwang Wang, Yujiu Yang

  • We establish a quantitative relationship between Parallelism Score (PS) in cognitive neuroscience and the compositional generalization (CG) ability of model representations.
  • To optimize the CG performance theoretically, we propose the incorporation of two regularization techniques, Parallelism Score Maximization and Distance Variance Minimization, to enhance the model CG ability.
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HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Ling Yang, Xinchen Zhang, Ye Tian, Chenming Shang, Minghao Xu, Wentao Zhang, Bin Cui

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AnyCharV: Bootstrap Controllable Character Video Generation with Fine-to-Coarse Guidance

Zhao Wang, Hao Wen, Lingting Zhu, Chenming Shang, Yujiu Yang, Qi Dou

[Paper] | [Code]

Papers on Nature Language Processing:

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ShifCon: Enhancing Non‑Dominant Language Capabilities with a Shift‑based Contrastive Framework

Hengyuan Zhang*, Chenming Shang*, Sizhe Wang, Dongdong Zhang, Feng Yao, Renliang Sun, Yiyao Yu, Yujiu Yang, Furu Wei (* denotes equal contribution)

[Paper] | [Code]

  • Based on the singular value decomposition, we define the language subspace.
  • We then transfer the non‑dominant language space to the dominant language space through shift projection and leverage contrastive learning to further alignment.
  • The non‑dominant language can access richer information from the parameters of LLMs and improve comprehension capability.
ACL 2023 BEA Workshop
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Assisting Language Learners: Automated Trans-Lingual Definition Generation via Contrastive Prompt Learning

Hengyuan Zhang, Dawei Li, Yanran Li, Chenming Shang, Chufan Shi, Yong Jiang

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Papers on Human‑Computer Interaction:

SYSU Bachelor's Thesis, Rank 1st
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Back-door Intervention based Causal Machine Learning Algorithm for Confounders

Chenming Shang, Zhi Jin

  • I complete my bachelor’s thesis under the guidance of Prof. Jin Zhi, and get 95 points, ranking 1st in the major.
  • Based on the back-door intervention formula in causal inference, I propose a causal machine learning algorithm for confounders, applying in the recommendation system to solve the problems of popularity bias and conformity bias.
TKDD 2024, JCR Q1
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A Question-centric Multi-experts Contrastive Learning Framework for Improving the Accuracy and Interpretability of Deep Sequential Knowledge Tracing Models

Hengyuan Zhang, Zitao Liu, Chenming Shang, Dawei Li, Yong Jiang

[Paper] | [Code]

ICME 2021
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Seeing Health with Eyes: Feature Combination for Image-Based Human BMI Estimation

Junjia Huang*, Chenming Shang*, Aolin Xiong, Yuxian Pang, Zhi Jin (* denotes equal contribution)

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Papers on Interdisciplinary Science:

Frontiers in Immunology, JCR Q1
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Peripheral PD-1+NK Cells Could Predict the 28-day Mortality in Sepsis Patients

Jia Tang, Chenming Shang, Yue Chang, Wei Jiang, Jun Xu, Leidan Zhang, Lianfeng Lu, Ling Chen, Xiaosheng Liu, Qingjia Zeng , Wei Cao, Taisheng Li

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Establishment of a Differential Diagnosis Method for AOSD and Lymphoma based on Random Forest Algorithm

Jia Tang*, Chenming Shang*, Yue Chang, Wei Jiang, Jun Xu, Leidan Zhang, Lianfeng Lu, Ling Chen, Xiaosheng Liu, Qingjia Zeng , Wei Cao, Taisheng Li (* denotes equal contribution)


🏅 Honors and Awards

  • National Scholarship
  • Samsung Scholarship
  • Tsinghua University Comprehensive First-Class Scholarship
  • Sun Yat-Sen University Outstanding Student First-Class Scholarship
  • Sun Yat-Sen University Academic Innovation Scholarship
  • Sun Yat-sen University Innovative Smart Medical Interdisciplinary Talent Training Fund Scholarship
  • ECCV 2022 NICO Hybrid Context Generalization Challenge, Finalist
  • CVPR 2020 NTIRE Perceptual Extreme Super-Resolution, the 7th
  • PCIC 2022 Causal Inference and Transfer Learning, the 9th
  • China RPA+AI Developer Competition, 1st Prize
  • College Student Intelligent Technology Application Competition, 1st Prize
  • Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ STEM Challenge, the 2nd
  • Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2nd Prize

📌 Leaderships

  • World Institute of Politics, Economy and Technology, Youth Researcher
  • Research Center for Chinese Global Youth Summit, Youth Researcher
  • Young Sustainable Impact, Member
  • National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, Popular Science Narrator
  • THU-SIGS Global Governance and International Organization Development Association, Vice President
  • Tsinghua University SIGS Career Development Center, Student Assistant
  • SYSU School of Intelligent Systems Engineering Men’s Football Team, Captain
  • Sun Yat-sen University English Debate Team, Member