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Ning Bian 边宁

I am a faculty postdoc (from 2025) at the School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, working with Professor Jun Wang. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Dec. 2024, trained in the Chinese Information Processing Laboratory at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Professor Xianpei Han, Professor Le Sun, and Professor Ben He. I received my Master degree from the same laboratory in June 2021.

Contact: ningbian@cumt.edu.cn

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Research Interests

Human-AI Sociology (人机社会学)
- How does human society shape AI's social behavior, and how does AI participate in reshaping society?
- Machine-machine relations: how AI agents form social relations, groups, and order
- Human-AI relations: trust, dependence, roles, and boundaries
- AI-mediated human-human relations: how AI enters interpersonal communication (e.g., healthcare communication)
Social Simulation with Large Language Models
- Can LLM agents faithfully simulate human social behavior?
- Social cognitive biases emerging in multi-agent interactions

Publications

2026
Social Simulations with Large Language Model Risk Utopian Illusion Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Hongyu Lin, Baolei Wu, Jun Wang Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Accepted) Preprint
2025
Unsupervised MRC for Museum Question Answering System (Chinese title: 面向文博领域的无监督阅读理解问答系统) Ning Bian, Longlong Ma, Xinhua Qin, Xianpei Han, Ben He, Le Sun Journal of Chinese Information Processing (in Chinese), 2025, 39(9): 126-136
2024
Influence of External Information on Large Language Models Mirrors Social Cognitive Patterns Ning Bian, Hongyu Lin, Peilin Liu, Yaojie Lu, Chunkang Zhang, Ben He, Xianpei Han, Le Sun IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Paper / Preprint
Rule or Story, Which is a Better Commonsense Expression for Talking with Large Language Models? Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Ben He, Le Sun The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024) Paper / Preprint
ChatGPT is a Knowledgeable but Inexperienced Solver: An Investigation of Commonsense Problem in Large Language Models Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Ben He The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) Paper / Preprint
2023
Contrastive Distant Supervision for Debiased and Denoised Machine Reading Comprehension Ning Bian, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Ben He, Le Sun Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 Paper
2022
Automatic Question Answering System for History Subject of National College Entrance Examination (Chinese title: 面向高考历史科目试题的自动答题系统) Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Ben He, Le Sun Journal of Chinese Information Processing (in Chinese) Paper
2021
Bridging the Gap between Language Model and Reading Comprehension: Unsupervised MRC via Self-Supervision Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Bo Chen, Hongyu Lin, Ben He, Le Sun arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.08582 (2021) Preprint
Benchmarking Knowledge-Enhanced Commonsense Question Answering via Knowledge-to-Text Transformation Ning Bian, Xianpei Han, Bo Chen, Le Sun The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021) Paper / Preprint

Education

2025-Present	Faculty Postdoc School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology
2021-2024	Ph.D. in Computer Science School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2018-2021	Master of Engineering in Computer Science Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2014-2018	Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology