The limits of language mean the limits of world.

Hello, I’m Yingpeng Ma (马英鹏). I’m currently an M.S. student in Computer Science at the NLP^2CT Lab , University of Macau (澳门大学), advised by Prof. Derek F. Wong.

Previously, I was a Research Assistant at the Westlake NLP Lab , supervised by Prof. Yue Zhang (张岳) and Prof. Linyi Yang (杨林易).

I earned my B.E. degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University (西北工业大学) , supervised by Prof. Chunwei Tian (田春伟).

In addition to my advisors, I am also deeply indebted to the guidance and support of my senior labmates, Jianhao Yan (颜建昊), Runzhe Zhan (詹润哲), Dr. Yulong Chen (陈雨龙), and Dr. Yafu Li (李雅夫).

Their pursuit of excellence continues to motivate and guide my own academic journey.

My research interests in NLP and LLMs are inspired by Wittgenstein’s philosophy: “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

For me, the quest to build Artificial General Intelligence is synonymous with the quest to transcend these very limits. To this end, my research is dedicated to building agents that possess greater consistency, credibility, and intelligence.

🗞 News

• Apr 2025: 🌟 My GitHub repository Awesome-Story-Generation has reached 400 stars! It’s encouraging to see community interest in this topic.
• Jan 2025: 🔥 One paper was accepted to the COLING 2025 main conference.
• Aug 2024: 🔥 Excited to start my M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Macau!
• May 2023: 🎉🎉 One co-first authored paper was accepted to the ACL 2023 main conference. Thrilled to have my first paper accepted and looking forward to future contributions!
• Aug 2022: Excited to learn at the Westlake NLP Lab, beginning my journey in NLP!
• Jun 2022: 🎉 Graduated with my B.E. degree from NWPU in just three years and received the Excellent Graduation Thesis Award (supervised by Prof. Chunwei Tian).

🌱 Repository

[ Awesome-Story-Generation | FinTrust ]

📘 Publication

COLING 2025 Main

Let’s Focus on Neuron: Neuron-Level Supervised Fine-tuning for Large Language Model

Haoyun Xu*, Runzhe Zhan*, Yingpeng Ma, Derek F Wong, Lidia S Chao

[Paper] [Code]

ACL 2023 Main

Measuring Consistency in Text-based Financial Forecasting Models

Linyi Yang*, Yingpeng Ma*, Yue Zhang

[Paper] [Code]

* denotes equal contribution

🎓 Education

• 2024.08 - 2027.06(expected), M.S. degree, Computer Science, University of Macau (UM, 澳门大学)
• 2019.09 - 2022.06, B.E. degree, Software Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, 西北工业大学)

👔 Experience

• 2024.08 - present, Master Student, NLP^2CT Lab @ University of Macau
• 2023.02 - 2024.07, Research Assistant, Westlake NLP Lab @ Westlake University
• 2022.08 - 2023.01, Intern, Westlake NLP Lab @ Westlake University
• 2021.07 - 2022.07, Intern, Perception Vision Group @ Northwestern Polytechnical University

🏆 Honor and Award

• 2022, Excellent Graduation Thesis Award (rank 3/217), Northwestern Polytechnical University
• 2021, Excellent Student Award, Northwestern Polytechnical University
• 2021, Second-Class Scholarship (top 15%), Northwestern Polytechnical University
• 2020, National First Prize, the 15th National University Students Intelligent Car Race

📨 Service

• Conference Reviewer : ARR-24, IJCAI-24
• Journal Reviewer : TALLIP

📡 Useful Resource

• AI Conference Deadlines: Countdowns to top NLP/ML/AI conference deadlines.
• Global Equality for PhDs: Resources to promote global equality for PhDs in NLP/AI.