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:

Incremental Residual Concept Bottleneck Models
Chenming Shang
, Shiji Zhou, Hengyuan Zhang, Xinzhe Ni, Yujiu Yang, Yuwang Wang
- 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.

Understanding Multimodal Deep Neural Networks: A Concept Selection View
Chenming Shang
, Hengyuan Zhang, Hao Wen, Yujiu Yang
- 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.

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.

HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and Generation
Ling Yang, Xinchen Zhang, Ye Tian, Chenming Shang
, Minghao Xu, Wentao Zhang, Bin Cui

Papers on Nature Language Processing:

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)
- 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.

Assisting Language Learners: Automated Trans-Lingual Definition Generation via Contrastive Prompt Learning
Hengyuan Zhang, Dawei Li, Yanran Li, Chenming Shang
, Chufan Shi, Yong Jiang
Papers on Human‑Computer Interaction:

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.


Papers on Interdisciplinary Science:

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

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