Yong Li
Professor
Works on urban science and computing, AI for spatio-temporal and mobility data, and large-model agents for social simulation.
Yong Li's lab at Tsinghua works on time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data, physics-based simulation & animation and physics, climate & scientific computing. 175 papers since 2023, 122 at top venues, mostly KDD and WWW. 26 PhD students and 27 master's students. 72 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 46/ year
- at T1 venues
- 70%
- PhD students
- 26
- MS students
- 27
- alumni listed
- 72
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 56 papers2026 · T1 49 · collecting
- 51 papers2025 · T1 33
- 38 papers2024 · T1 26
- 30 papers2023 · T1 14
T1 venuesOtherVenues: KDD, WWW, ICML, ICLR, AAAI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Physics-based simulation & animation26 papers
- Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data25 papers
- Physics, climate & scientific computing11 papers
- urban science1 paper
- large-model0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202656 papers
- The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies .Act2Intention: A Benchmark For Developing Active Mobile Agents Through Inferring User Intention from GUI Actions (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)AgentSwift： Efficient LLM Agent Design via Value-guided Hierarchical Search (opens in a new tab)
- Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 13, Article number: 1011 .AI agent behavioral science (opens in a new tab)
- Nature (T1)Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists' impact but contract science's focus (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)AutoHealth: Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous Health Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Beyond Model Ranking: Predictability-Aligned Evaluation for Time Series Forecasting (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)CacheSpec: Finding the Sweet Spot for Small Models in Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)ChaosNexus: A Foundation Model for ODE-based Chaotic System Forecasting with Hierarchical Multi-scale Awareness (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)CityLens: Evaluating Large Vision-LanguageModels for Urban Socioeconomic Sensing (opens in a new tab)
- ACM MMCityRiSE: Reasoning Urban Socio-Economic Status in Large Vision-Language Models via Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)Collaborative Deterministic-Probabilistic Learning for Real-World Spatiotemporal Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)Depression Detection on Social Media with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
202551 papers
- ICLR (T1)A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Commuting Origin-Destination Flow Generation (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)A Large-scale Dataset with Behavior, Attributes, and Content of Mobile Short-video Platform (opens in a new tab)
- —A Survey of Embodied World Models (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)A Universal Model for Human Mobility Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.AgentMove: A Large Language Model based Agentic Framework for Zero-shot Next Location Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)AgentRecBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent-based Personalized Recommender Systems（Dataset and Benchmarks Track） (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)AgentSquare: Automatic LLM Agent Search in Modular Design Space (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Balanced Token Pruning: Accelerating Vision Language Models Beyond Local Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)Benchmarking and Advancing Large Language Models for Local Life Services (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Meeting of the Associa-tion for Computational Linguistics .Benchmarking Video-Language Models for Embodied Motion Cognition in Urban Open-Ended Spaces (opens in a new tab)
- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media .Can’t Stop Scrolling: Understanding the Online Behavioral Factors and Trends of Short-Video Addiction (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)CityBench: Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Urban Tasks (opens in a new tab)
202438 papers
- KDD (T1)A Population-to-individual Tuning Framework for Adapting Pretrained LM to On-device User Intent Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsAnalyzing the Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption Behaviors through Recession and Recovery Patterns (opens in a new tab)
- TKDDCongestion-aware Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network Based A* Search Algorithm for Fastest Route Search (opens in a new tab)
- Humanities & Social Sciences Communications,11(1), 1-12.Counterfactual Mobility Network Embedding Reveals Prevalent Accessibility Gaps in U.S. Cities (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Communications (T1)Deep learning resilience inference for complex networked systems (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)Diffusion Model-based Mobile Traffic Generation with Open Data for Network Planning and Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)DyPS: Dynamic Parameter Sharing in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Spatio-Temporal Resource Allocation (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)EconAgent: Large Language Model-Empowered Agents for Simulating Macroeconomic Activities (opens in a new tab)
- TISTEmpowering Predictive Modeling by GAN-based Causal Information Learning (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Estimating On-Road Transportation Carbon Emissions from Open Data of Road Network and Origin-Destination Flow Data (opens in a new tab)
- IJCAI (T1)From Pixels to Progress: Generating Road Network from Satellite Imagery for Socioeconomic Insights in Impoverished Areas (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)Full-stage Diversified Recommendation: Large-scale Online Experiments in Short-video Platform (opens in a new tab)
202330 papers
- The WebConf .A Multi-scale Co-evolving Model for Dynamic Link Prediction in Evolving Networks (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific data,10(1),866.A Satellite Imagery Dataset for Long-Term Sustainable Development in United States Cities (opens in a new tab)
- The WebConf .Breaking Filter Bubble: A Reinforcement Learning Framework of Controllable Recommender System (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Sustainability,6,1620-1631.Carbon Emissions of 5G Mobile Networks in China (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific Data,10(1),711.City-scale Vehicle Trajectory Data From Traffic Camera Videos (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)Deep Transfer Learning for City-scale Cellular Traffic Generation through Urban Knowledge Graph (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)Detecting Vulnerable Nodes in Urban Infrastructure Interdependent Network (opens in a new tab)
- The WebConf .Dual-interest Factorization-heads Attention for Sequential Recommendation (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)Efficient and Joint Hyperparameter and Architecture Search for Collaborative Filtering (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)GAT-MF: Graph Attention Mean Field for Very Large Scale Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific Data,10(1),165.Healthy Cities, A comprehensive dataset for environmental determinants of health in England cities (opens in a new tab)
- The WebConf .Hierarchical Knowledge Graph Learning Enabled Socioeconomic Indicator Prediction in Location-Based Social Network (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went72 listed
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Computer Science PhD (international applicants)
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- RMB 800
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