Huimin Chen

Associate Professor Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Email: huimchen [at] tsinghua.edu.cn Research Interests: social computing, trustworthy large language models, computational social science I am actively recruiting postdocs, PhD students, master's students, and research interns. Feel free to contact me.

Education and Experience | Publications

Publications

Journal and Conference Papers

2025

1. Zheni Zeng, Jiayi Chen, Huimin Chen†, Yukun Yan, Yuxuan Chen, Zhenghao Liu, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun. PersLLM: A Personified Training Approach for Large Language Models. Findings of EMNLP 2025.
2. Bingxiang He, Ning Ding, Cheng Qian, Jia Deng, Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Haiwen Hong, Huan-ang Gao, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, Huimin Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun. The Right Time Matters: Data Arrangement Affects Zero-Shot Generalization in Instruction Tuning. Findings of ACL 2025.
3. Weize Chen, Jiarui Yuan, Tailin Jin, Ning Ding, Huimin Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun. The Overthinker's DIET: Cutting Token Calories with DIfficulty-AwarE Training. NeurIPS 2025.
4. Lifan Yuan, Ganqu Cui, Hanbin Wang, Ning Ding, Xingyao Wang, Jia Deng, Boji Shan, Huimin Chen, Ruobing Xie, Yankai Lin, Zhenghao Liu, Bowen Zhou, Hao Peng, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun. Advancing LLM Reasoning Generalists with Preference Trees. ICLR 2025.
5. Ze Fu*, Huimin Chen*, Zhan Liu, Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Yanchao Bi. Pathogen stress heightens sensorimotor dimensions in the human collective semantic space. Communications Psychology, 2025.
6. Xizhu Xiao, Huimin Chen†, Qinyan Song, Yiwei Yang. From Doubt to Action: Examining the Potential of AI Comments in Promoting Health Information Seeking on Social Media. Science Communication, 2025.
7. 陈慧敏，陈祉伊，吴宜檬，金兼斌. 生成式人工智能介入下国家形象的视觉框架及其效果——基于推特社交媒体平台中国图像数据的实证分析.《当代传播》, 2025.
8. 陈慧敏，邓依林，简晓雯，孙辰宁，金兼斌. 中国科技形象的社交媒体呈现与演变：基于推特平台的大数据分析.《中国地质大学学报(社会科学版)》，2025.
9. 肖喜珠，陈慧敏†，聂子坤，李全超，汪梦媛. 宫颈癌防治热门微博对公众参与和情感的影响.《中国公共卫生》, 2025.
10. 陈慧敏，林毓菁，阎冰洁. 美国媒体如何刻画新时代下的中国？基于主题和语义分析的计算研究.《国际传播研究》, 2025.

    2024

11. Cheng Gao, Chaojun Xiao, Zhenghao Liu, Huimin Chen†, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun. Enhancing Legal Case Retrieval via Scaling High-quality Synthetic Query-Candidate Pairs. EMNLP 2024.
12. Yiju Guo, Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Ning Ding, Jiexin Wang, Huimin Chen, Bowen Sun, Ruobing Xie, Jie Zhou, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun. Controllable Preference Optimization: Toward Controllable Multi-Objective Alignment. EMNLP 2024.
13. 陈慧敏，刘知远，孙茂松. 语言大模型时代的社会机遇与挑战.《计算机研究与发展》, 2024.
14. 陈慧敏，邓依林. 中国科技形象的全球呈现与关联因素：基于推特社交媒体平台2013—2022年的大数据分析.《现代传播》, 2024.
15. 陈慧敏，朱姿伊，金兼斌. 知识生产视域下生成式人工智能信任的复合框架、作用机制与未来进路.《中国编辑》, 2024.

    2023

16. Huimin Chen, Zeyu Zhu, Beichen Yu, Jianbin Jin. Trust in Government, Trust in Scientists, and Social Anxiety: Observations of Online Public Opinion in COVID-19 Pandemic. Contemporary Communication (in Chinese). [pdf]

    2022

17. Ze Fu*, Huimin Chen*, Zhan Liu, Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Yanchao Bi. Pathogens shape human collective conceptual processing. Preprint. [pdf]
18. Ze Fu, Xiaosha Wang, Xiaoying Wang, Huichao Yang, Jiahuan Wang, Tao Wei, Xuhong Liao, Zhiyuan Liu, Huimin Chen, Yanchao Bi. Different computational relations in language are captured by distinct brain systems. Cerebral Cortex. [pdf]

    2021

19. Huimin Chen*, Cheng Yang*, Xuanming Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Jianbin Jin. From Symbols to Embeddings: A Tale of Two Representations in Computational Social Science. Journal of Social Computing . [pdf]
20. Huimin Chen, Sichen Jin, Wei Lin, Zeyu Zhu, Lingbo Tong, Yipeng Liu, Yining Ye, Weihan Jiang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Jin Jianbin. Quantitative Analysis on the Communication of COVID-19 Related Social Media Rumors. Journal of Computer Research and Development (in Chinese) . [pdf]
21. Huimin Chen, Yankai Lin, Fanchao Qi, Jinyi Hu, Peng Li, Jie Zhou, Maosong Sun. Aspect-Level Sentiment-Controllable Review Generation with Mutual Learning Framework. Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021) .

    2020

22. Huimin Chen*, Zeyu Zhu*, Fanchao Qi, Yining Ye, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun and Jianbin Jin. Country Image in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of China. IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD 2020) . [pdf] [data]

    2019

23. Huimin Chen*, Xiaoyuan Yi*, Maosong Sun, Wenhao Li, Cheng Yang and Zhipeng Guo. Sentiment-Controllable Chinese Poetry Generation. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019) . [pdf] [data]
24. Fuli Feng, Huimin Chen, Xiangnan He, Ji Ding, Maosong Sun and Tat-Seng Chua. Enhancing Stock Movement Prediction with Adversarial Training. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019) . [pdf]
25. Changhe Song, Cheng Yang, Huimin Chen, Cunchao Tu, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun. CED: Credible Early Detectionof Social Media Rumors. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), 2019 . [pdf]
26. Zhipeng Guo, Xiaoyuan Yi, Maosong Sun, Wenhao Li, Cheng Yang, Jiannan Liang, Huimin Chen, Yuhui Zhang, Ruoyu Li. Jiuge: A Human-Machine Collaborative Chinese Classical Poetry. The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019) . [pdf]

    2016

27. Huimin Chen, Maosong Sun, Cunchao Tu, Yankai Lin and Zhiyuan Liu. Neural Sentiment Classification with User and Product Attention. The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2016) . [pdf] [data]

Education and Experience

• Sep, 2020 - Dec, 2022. Postdoc, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
• Aug, 2015 - Jul, 2020. Ph.D, Natural Language Processing Lab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
• Sep, 2011 - Jul, 2015. Undergraduate, School of Information Engineering, Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing.