Boming Yang

Hi! I’m Boming Yang (杨 博铭), a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Technology Management for Innovation, advised by Prof. Yutaka Matsuo. My research focuses on Personalized LLMs and the Post-training of LLMs. I like cats 🐱 and Dota.

Publications

  • Boming Yang, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Yuquan Wang, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo: Knows but Cannot Act: A Reasoning–Social Trade-off in Multilingual Role-Playing (Submitted to EMNLP, 2026)
  • Rui Yang, Boming Yang, Sixun Ouyang, Tianwei She, Aosong Feng, Yuang Jiang, Freddy Lecue, Jinghui Lu, Irene Li: Leveraging Large Language Models for Concept Graph Recovery and Question Answering in NLP Education (WWW 2025)
  • Rui Yang, Boming Yang, Xinjie Zhao, Fan Gao, Aosong Feng, Sixun Ouyang, Michael Blum, Tianwei She, et al.: Graphusion: A RAG Framework for Scientific Knowledge Graph Construction with a Global Perspective (WWW 2025)
  • Dairui Liu, Boming Yang, Honghui Du, Derek Greene, Aonghus Lawlor, Ruihai Dong, Irene Li: RecPrompt: A Prompt Tuning Framework for News Recommendation Using Large Language Models (CIKM 2024)
  • Boming Yang, Dairui Liu, Toyotaro Suzumura, Ruihai Dong, Irene Li: Going Beyond Local: Global Graph-Enhanced Personalized News Recommendations (Best Student Paper, ACM RecSys 2023)

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