Curriculum Vitae

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Education

M.S. (Academic) in Computer Science

Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Yunfang Wu

B.S. in Computer Science

GPA: 3.72/4.00

Publications

Refereed Publications

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)

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)

Think Outside the Policy: In-Context Steered Policy Optimization   ACL 2026 Findings

Hsiu-Yuan Huang*, Chenming Tang*, Weijie Liu, Clive Bai, Saiyong Yang, Yunfang Wu

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026

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

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

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)

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)

Preprints

Democratizing Tool Learning with Environments Fully Simulated by a Free 8B Language Model   arXiv 2026

Chenming Tang, Hsiu-Yuan Huang, Weijie Liu, Junqiang Zheng, Saiyong Yang, Yunfang Wu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.17739

ADWIN: Adaptive Windows for Horizon-Aware On-Policy Distillation   arXiv 2026

Kun Liang, Chenming Tang, Clive Bai, Weijie Liu, Saiyong Yang, Yunfang Wu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.28396

RLVR Datasets and Where to Find Them: Tracing Data Lineage for Better Training Data   arXiv 2026

Hsiu-Yuan Huang, Weijie Liu, Chenming Tang, Sanwoo Lee, Kai Yang, Yangkun Chen, Saiyong Yang, Yunfang Wu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.26971

ORBIT: On-policy Exploration-Exploitation for Controllable Multi-Budget Reasoning   arXiv 2026

Kun Liang, Clive Bai, Xin Xu, Chenming Tang, Sanwoo Lee, Weijie Liu, Saiyong Yang, Yunfang Wu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.08310

Lost in the Passage: Passage-level In-context Learning Does Not Necessarily Need a "Passage"   arXiv 2025

Hao Sun, Chenming Tang, Gengyang Li, Yunfang Wu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10634

Evaluating the Capability of Large-scale Language Models on Chinese Grammatical Error Correction Task   arXiv 2023

Fanyi Qu, Chenming Tang, Yunfang Wu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.03972

* Equal Contribution.

Research Experience

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Agent Memory

Tencent & Peking University

Agentic Reinforcement Learning · Reasoning-oriented Reinforcement Fine-tuning

Peking University

Knowledge Editing · Prompting and In-context Learning · Grammatical Error Correction

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Graduate

Exceptional Award for Academic Innovation

First prize

Second place

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computing (C)

Instructor: Prof. Zhifang Sui & Assoc. Prof. Yunfang Wu

Standardized Tests

TOEFL iBT

111

R: 30 | L: 28 | S: 23 | W: 30

GRE General Test

336

V: 166 | Q: 170 | AWA: 3.5