Shimao Zhang (张世茂)

Master Student School of Computer Science Nanjing University, Xianlin Campus 163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District Nanjing 210023, China E-mail: smzhang@smail.nju.edu.cn

About me

I'm a master student of School of Computer Science in Nanjing University now. I have just received my B.Sc. degree at Nanjing University in 2023. I have finished a period of unforgettable time in LAMDA Group supervised by Prof. Lijun Zhang during my undergraduate years. Additionally, I'm admitted to pursue my M.Sc. degree in Nanjing University without entrance examination. I'm now a member of NJU NLP Group under the supervision of Prof. Shujian Huang.

And I'm a research intern now in MSRA, advised by Dr. Xiao Liu.

Looking for PhD positions of 2026fall! If there is any opportunity, please feel free to contact me.

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Research Interests

• Machine Learning

• Natural Language Processing

• Large Language Models (LLMs)

Awards & Honors

• Outstanding Graduate Student, Nanjing University, 12.2024

• First-class Academic Scholarship, Nanjing University, 11.2024

• BYD Scholarship, Nanjing University, 11.2024

• First-class Academic Scholarship, Nanjing University, 11.2023

• People's Scholarship, Nanjing University, 12.2022

• People's Scholarship, Nanjing University, 12.2021

• First Prize, The 34th National High School Mathematics League, Chinese Mathematical Society, 10.2018

Publications

* Corresponding Author   ^† Equal Contribution

• How does Alignment Enhance LLMs' Multilingual Capabilities? A Language Neurons Perspective

  Shimao Zhang^†, Zhejian Lai^†, Xiang Liu^†, Shuaijie She, Xiao Liu, Yeyun Gong, Shujian Huang*, Jiajun Chen

  arXiv:2505.21505

  [arXiv]

• PATS: Process-Level Adaptive Thinking Mode Switching

  Yi Wang^†, Junxiao Liu^†, Shimao Zhang^†, Jiajun Chen, Shujian Huang*

  arXiv:2505.19250

  [arXiv] [Code]

• Process-based Self-Rewarding Language Models

  Shimao Zhang, Xiao Liu*, Xin Zhang, Junxiao Liu, Zheheng Luo, Shujian Huang*, Yeyun Gong

  ACL 2025 - Findings

  [arXiv] [Code]

• Getting More from Less: Large Language Models are Good Spontaneous Multilingual Learners

  Shimao Zhang, Changjiang Gao, Wenhao Zhu, Jiajun Chen, Xin Huang, Xue Han, Junlan Feng, Chao Deng, and Shujian Huang*

  EMNLP 2024 (Oral Presentation)

  [arXiv] [Code]

• EDT: Improving Large Language Models' Generation by Entropy-based Dynamic Temperature Sampling

  Shimao Zhang, Yu Bao, and Shujian Huang*

  arXiv:2403.14541

  [arXiv]

• Distributed Projection-free Online Learning for Smooth and Convex Losses

  Yibo Wang, Yuanyu Wan, Shimao Zhang, and Lijun Zhang*

  AAAI 2023

  [PDF] [Bibtex]

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Last Updated 2025-05-29 00:54