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ICML Conference 2025 Conference Paper

FSTLLM: Spatio-Temporal LLM for Few Shot Time Series Forecasting

  • Yue Jiang 0005
  • Yile Chen 0001
  • Xiucheng Li
  • Qin Chao
  • Shuai Liu 0018
  • Gao Cong

Time series forecasting fundamentally relies on accurately modeling complex interdependencies and shared patterns within time series data. Recent advancements, such as Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks (STGNNs) and Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs), have demonstrated promising results by effectively capturing intricate spatial and temporal dependencies across diverse real-world datasets. However, these models typically require large volumes of training data and often struggle in data-scarce scenarios. To address this limitation, we propose a framework named Few-shot Spatio-Temporal Large Language Models (FSTLLM), aimed at enhancing model robustness and predictive performance in few-shot settings. FSTLLM leverages the contextual knowledge embedded in Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide reasonable and accurate predictions. In addition, it supports the seamless integration of existing forecasting models to further boost their predicative capabilities. Experimental results on real-world datasets demonstrate the adaptability and consistently superior performance of FSTLLM over major baseline models by a significant margin. Our code is available at: https: //github. com/JIANGYUE61610306/FSTLLM.

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

HubGT: Fast Graph Transformer with Decoupled Hierarchy Labeling

  • Ningyi Liao
  • Zihao Yu
  • Siqiang Luo
  • Gao Cong

Graph Transformer (GT) has recently emerged as a promising neural network architecture for learning graph-structured data. However, its global attention mechanism with quadratic complexity concerning the graph scale prevents wider application to large graphs. Effectively representing graph information while ensuring learning efficiency remains challenging, as our analysis reveals that current GT designs targeting scalability still suffer from the computational bottleneck related to graph-scale operations. In this work, we tackle the GT scalability issue by proposing HubGT, a scalable Graph Transformer boosted by fully decoupled graph processing and simplified learning. HubGT represents the graph by a novel hierarchical scheme exploiting hub labels, which is shown to be more informative than plain adjacency by offering global connections while promoting locality, and is particularly suitable for handling complex graph patterns such as heterophily. We also design algorithms for efficiently constructing and querying the hub label hierarchy tailored for the GT attention training in scalable deployments. Notably, the precomputation and training processes of HubGT achieve complexities linear to the number of graph edges and nodes, respectively, while the training stage completely removes graph-related computations, leading to favorable mini-batch capability and GPU utilization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HubGT is efficient in terms of computational enhancement and mini-batch capability over existing GT designs on large-scale benchmarks, while achieving top-tier effectiveness on both homophilous and heterophilous graphs.

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

PLMTrajRec: A Scalable and Generalizable Trajectory Recovery Method with Pre-trained Language Models

  • Tonglong Wei
  • Yan Lin
  • Youfang Lin
  • Shengnan Guo
  • Jilin Hu
  • Haitao Yuan
  • Gao Cong
  • Huaiyu Wan

Spatiotemporal trajectory data is crucial for various traffic-related applications. However, issues such as device malfunctions and network instability often result in sparse trajectories that lose detailed movement information compared to their dense counterparts. Recovering missing points in sparse trajectories is thus essential. Despite recent progress, three challenges remain. First, the lack of large-scale dense trajectory datasets hinders the training of a trajectory recovery model. Second, the varying spatiotemporal correlations in sparse trajectories make it hard to generalize across different sampling intervals. Third, extracting road conditions for missing points is non-trivial. To address these challenges, we propose $\textit{PLMTrajRec}$, a novel trajectory recovery model. It leverages the scalability of a pre-trained language model (PLM) and can effectively recover trajectories by fine-tuning with small-scale dense trajectory datasets. To handle different sampling intervals in sparse trajectories, we first convert sampling intervals and movement features into prompts for the PLM to understand. We then introduce a trajectory encoder to unify trajectories of varying intervals into a single interval. To extract road conditions for missing points, we propose an area flow-guided implicit trajectory prompt that represents traffic conditions in each region, and a road condition passing mechanism that infers the road conditions of missing points using the observed ones. Experiments on four public trajectory datasets with three sampling intervals demonstrate the effectiveness, scalability, and generalization ability of PLMTrajRec. Code is available at https: //github. com/wtl52656/PLMTrajRec.

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Reconciling Geospatial Prediction and Retrieval via Sparse Representations

  • Yi Li
  • CHEN YUANLONG
  • Weiming Huang
  • Xiaoli Li
  • Gao Cong

Urban computing harnesses big data to decode complex urban dynamics and revolutionize location-based services. Traditional approaches have treated geospatial prediction tasks (e. g. , estimating socio-economic indicators) and retrieval tasks (e. g. , querying geographic objects) as isolated challenges, necessitating separate models with distinct training objectives. This fragmentation imposes significant computational burdens and limits cross-task synergy, despite advances in representation learning and multi-task foundation models. We present UrbanSparse, a pioneering framework that unifies geospatial prediction and retrieval through a novel sparse-dense representation architecture. By synergistically combining these tasks, UrbanSparse eliminates redundant systems while amplifying their mutual strengths. Our approach introduces two innovations: (1) Bloom filter-based sparse encodings that compress high-sparsity geographic queries and fine-grained text terms for retrieval effectiveness, and (2) a dense semantic codebook that captures granular urban features to boost prediction accuracy. A two-view contrastive learning mechanism further bridges urban objects, regions, and contexts. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate 25. 16% gains in prediction accuracy and 20. 76% improvements in retrieval precision over state-of-the-art baselines, alongside 65. 97% faster training. These advantages position UrbanSparse as a scalable solution for large urban datasets. To our knowledge, this is the first unified framework bridging geospatial prediction and retrieval, opening new frontiers in data-driven urban intelligence.

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

SMARTraj$^2$: A Stable Multi-City Adaptive Method for Multi-View Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Representation Learning

  • Tangwen Qian
  • Junhe Li
  • Yile Chen
  • Gao Cong
  • Zezhi Shao
  • Jun Zhang
  • Tao Sun
  • Fei Wang

Spatio-temporal trajectory representation learning plays a crucial role in various urban applications such as transportation systems, urban planning, and environmental monitoring. Existing methods can be divided into single-view and multi-view approaches, with the latter offering richer representations by integrating multiple sources of spatio-temporal data. However, these methods often struggle to generalize across diverse urban scenes due to multi-city structural heterogeneity, which arises from the disparities in road networks, grid layouts, and traffic regulations across cities, and the amplified seesaw phenomenon, where optimizing for one city, view, or task can degrade performance in others. These challenges hinder the deployment of trajectory learning models across multiple cities, limiting their real-world applicability. In this work, we propose SMARTraj$^2$, a novel stable multi-city adaptive method for multi-view spatio-temporal trajectory representation learning. Specifically, we introduce a feature disentanglement module to separate domain-invariant and domain-specific features, and a personalized gating mechanism to dynamically stabilize the contributions of different views and tasks. Our approach achieves superior generalization across heterogeneous urban scenes while maintaining robust performance across multiple downstream tasks. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of SMARTraj$^2$ in enhancing cross-city generalization and outperforming state-of-the-art methods. See our project website at \url{https: //github. com/GestaltCogTeam/SMARTraj}.

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

TransferTraj: A Vehicle Trajectory Learning Model for Region and Task Transferability

  • Tonglong Wei
  • Yan Lin
  • Zeyu Zhou
  • Haomin Wen
  • Jilin Hu
  • Shengnan Guo
  • Youfang Lin
  • Gao Cong

Vehicle GPS trajectories provide valuable movement information that supports various downstream tasks and applications. A desirable trajectory learning model should be able to transfer across regions and tasks without retraining, avoiding the need to maintain multiple specialized models and subpar performance with limited training data. However, each region has its unique spatial features and contexts, which are reflected in vehicle movement patterns and are difficult to generalize. Additionally, transferring across different tasks faces technical challenges due to the varying input-output structures required for each task. Existing efforts towards transferability primarily involve learning embedding vectors for trajectories, which perform poorly in region transfer and require retraining of prediction modules for task transfer. To address these challenges, we propose $\textit{TransferTraj}$, a vehicle GPS trajectory learning model that excels in both region and task transferability. For region transferability, we introduce RTTE as the main learnable module within TransferTraj. It integrates spatial, temporal, POI, and road network modalities of trajectories to effectively manage variations in spatial context distribution across regions. It also introduces a TRIE module for incorporating relative information of spatial features and a spatial context MoE module for handling movement patterns in diverse contexts. For task transferability, we propose a task-transferable input-output scheme that unifies the input-output structure of different tasks into the masking and recovery of modalities and trajectory points. This approach allows TransferTraj to be pre-trained once and transferred to different tasks without retraining. We conduct extensive experiments on three real-world vehicle trajectory datasets under various transfer settings, including task transfer, zero-shot region transfer, and few-shot region transfer. Experimental results demonstrate that TransferTraj significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in different scenarios, validating its effectiveness in region and task transfer. Code is available at https: //github. com/wtl52656/TransferTraj.

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ICLR Conference 2024 Conference Paper

AirPhyNet: Harnessing Physics-Guided Neural Networks for Air Quality Prediction

  • Kethmi Hirushini Hettige
  • Jiahao Ji
  • Shili Xiang
  • Cheng Long 0001
  • Gao Cong
  • Jingyuan Wang 0001

Air quality prediction and modelling plays a pivotal role in public health and environment management, for individuals and authorities to make informed decisions. Although traditional data-driven models have shown promise in this domain, their long-term prediction accuracy can be limited, especially in scenarios with sparse or incomplete data and they often rely on black-box deep learning structures that lack solid physical foundation leading to reduced transparency and interpretability in predictions. To address these limitations, this paper presents a novel approach named Physics guided Neural Network for Air Quality Prediction (AirPhyNet). Specifically, we leverage two well-established physics principles of air particle movement (diffusion and advection) by representing them as differential equation networks. Then, we utilize a graph structure to integrate physics knowledge into a neural network architecture and exploit latent representations to capture spatio-temporal relationships within the air quality data. Experiments on two real-world benchmark datasets demonstrate that AirPhyNet outperforms state-of-the-art models for different testing scenarios including different lead time (24h, 48h, 72h), sparse data and sudden change prediction, achieving reduction in prediction errors up to 10\%. Moreover, a case study further validates that our model captures underlying physical processes of particle movement and generates accurate predictions with real physical meaning. The code is available at: https://github.com/kethmih/AirPhyNet

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Road Network Representation Learning with the Third Law of Geography

  • Haicang Zhou
  • Weiming Huang
  • Yile Chen
  • Tiantian He
  • Gao Cong
  • Yew-Soon Ong

Road network representation learning aims to learn compressed and effective vectorized representations for road segments that are applicable to numerous tasks. In this paper, we identify the limitations of existing methods, particularly their overemphasis on the distance effect as outlined in the First Law of Geography. In response, we propose to endow road network representation with the principles of the recent Third Law of Geography. To this end, we propose a novel graph contrastive learning framework that employs geographic configuration-aware graph augmentation and spectral negative sampling, ensuring that road segments with similar geographic configurations yield similar representations, and vice versa, aligning with the principles stated in the Third Law. The framework further fuses the Third Law with the First Law through a dual contrastive learning objective to effectively balance the implications of both laws. We evaluate our framework on two real-world datasets across three downstream tasks. The results show that the integration of the Third Law significantly improves the performance of road segment representations in downstream tasks.

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ICLR Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Multivariate Time-series Imputation with Disentangled Temporal Representations

  • Shuai Liu 0018
  • Xiucheng Li
  • Gao Cong
  • Yile Chen 0001
  • Yue Jiang 0005

Multivariate time series often faces the problem of missing value. Many time series imputation methods have been developed in the literature. However, these methods all rely on an entangled representation to model dynamics of time series, which may fail to fully exploit the multiple factors (e.g., periodic patterns) contained in the time series. Moreover, the entangled representation usually has no semantic meaning, and thus they often lack interpretability. In addition, many recent models are proposed to deal with the whole time series to capture cross-channel correlations and identify temporal dynamics, but they are not scalable to large-scale datasets. Different from existing approaches, we propose TIDER, a novel matrix factorization-based method with disentangled temporal representations that account for multiple factors, namely trend, seasonality, and local bias, to model complex dynamics. The learned disentanglement makes the imputation process more reliable and offers explainability for imputation results. Moreover, TIDER is scalable to large datasets. Empirical results show that our method not only outperforms existing approaches by notable margins on three real-world datasets, but also scales well to large datasets on which existing deep learning based methods struggle. Disentanglement validation experiments further demonstrate the robustness of our model in obtaining accurate and explainable disentangled components.

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TIST Journal 2021 Journal Article

Let Trajectories Speak Out the Traffic Bottlenecks

  • Hui Luo
  • Zhifeng Bao
  • Gao Cong
  • J. Shane Culpepper
  • Nguyen Lu Dang Khoa

Traffic bottlenecks are a set of road segments that have an unacceptable level of traffic caused by a poor balance between road capacity and traffic volume. A huge volume of trajectory data which captures realtime traffic conditions in road networks provides promising new opportunities to identify the traffic bottlenecks. In this paper, we define this problem as trajectory-driven traffic bottleneck identification: Given a road network R, a trajectory database T, find a representative set of seed edges of size K of traffic bottlenecks that influence the highest number of road segments not in the seed set. We show that this problem is NP-hard and propose a framework to find the traffic bottlenecks as follows. First, a traffic spread model is defined which represents changes in traffic volume for each road segment over time. Then, the traffic diffusion probability between two connected segments and the residual ratio of traffic volume for each segment can be computed using historical trajectory data. We then propose two different algorithmic approaches to solve the problem. The first one is a best-first algorithm BF, with an approximation ratio of 1-1/ e. To further accelerate the identification process in larger datasets, we also propose a sampling-based greedy algorithm SG. Finally, comprehensive experiments using three different datasets compare and contrast various solutions, and provide insights into important efficiency and effectiveness trade-offs among the respective methods.

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TIST Journal 2021 Journal Article

Similar Trajectory Search with Spatio-Temporal Deep Representation Learning

  • David Alexander Tedjopurnomo
  • Xiucheng Li
  • Zhifeng Bao
  • Gao Cong
  • Farhana Choudhury
  • A. K. Qin

Similar trajectory search is a crucial task that facilitates many downstream spatial data analytic applications. Despite its importance, many of the current literature focus solely on the trajectory’s spatial similarity while neglecting the temporal information. Additionally, the few papers that use both the spatial and temporal features based their approach on a traditional point-to-point comparison. These methods model the importance of the spatial and temporal aspect of the data with only a single, pre-defined balancing factor for all trajectories, even though the relative spatial and temporal balance can change from trajectory to trajectory. In this article, we propose the first spatio-temporal, deep-representation-learning-based approach to similar trajectory search. Experiments show that utilizing both features offers significant improvements over existing point-to-point comparison and deep-representation-learning approach. We also show that our deep neural network approach is faster and performs more consistently compared to the point-to-point comparison approaches.

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IJCAI Conference 2018 Conference Paper

High-dimensional Similarity Learning via Dual-sparse Random Projection

  • Dezhong Yao
  • Peilin Zhao
  • Tuan-Anh Nguyen Pham
  • Gao Cong

We investigate how to adopt dual random projection for high-dimensional similarity learning. For a high-dimensional similarity learning problem, projection is usually adopted to map high-dimensional features into low-dimensional space, in order to reduce the computational cost. However, dimensionality reduction method sometimes results in unstable performance due to the suboptimal solution in original space. In this paper, we propose a dual random projection framework for similarity learning to recover the original optimal solution from subspace optimal solution. Previous dual random projection methods usually make strong assumptions about the data, which need to be low rank or have a large margin. Those assumptions limit dual random projection applications in similarity learning. Thus, we adopt a dual-sparse regularized random projection method that introduces a sparse regularizer into the reduced dual problem. As the original dual solution is a sparse one, applying a sparse regularizer in the reduced space relaxes the low-rank assumption. Experimental results show that our method enjoys higher effectiveness and efficiency than state-of-the-art solutions.

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IJCAI Conference 2018 Conference Paper

Periodic-CRN: A Convolutional Recurrent Model for Crowd Density Prediction with Recurring Periodic Patterns

  • Ali Zonoozi
  • Jung-jae Kim
  • Xiao-li Li
  • Gao Cong

Time-series forecasting in geo-spatial domains has important applications, including urban planning, traffic management and behavioral analysis. We observed recurring periodic patterns in some spatio-temporal data, which were not considered explicitly by previous non-linear works. To address this lack, we propose novel `Periodic-CRN' (PCRN) method, which adapts convolutional recurrent network (CRN) to accurately capture spatial and temporal correlations, learns and incorporates explicit periodic representations, and can be optimized with multi-step ahead prediction. We show that PCRN consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for crowd density prediction across two taxi datasets from Beijing and Singapore.

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AAAI Conference 2017 Conference Paper

POI2Vec: Geographical Latent Representation for Predicting Future Visitors

  • Shanshan Feng
  • Gao Cong
  • Bo An
  • Yeow Meng Chee

With the increasing popularity of location-aware social media applications, Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation has recently been extensively studied. However, most of the existing studies explore from the users’ perspective, namely recommending POIs for users. In contrast, we consider a new research problem of predicting users who will visit a given POI in a given future period. The challenge of the problem lies in the difficulty to effectively learn POI sequential transition and user preference, and integrate them for prediction. In this work, we propose a new latent representation model POI2Vec that is able to incorporate the geographical influence, which has been shown to be very important in modeling user mobility behavior. Note that existing representation models fail to incorporate the geographical influence. We further propose a method to jointly model the user preference and POI sequential transition influence for predicting potential visitors for a given POI. We conduct experiments on 2 real-world datasets to demonstrate the superiority of our proposed approach over the state-of-the-art algorithms for both next POI prediction and future user prediction.

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AAAI Conference 2015 Conference Paper

A Tri-Role Topic Model for Domain-Specific Question Answering

  • Zongyang Ma
  • Aixin Sun
  • Quan Yuan
  • Gao Cong

Stack Overflow and MedHelp are examples of domainspecific community-based question answering (CQA) systems. Different from CQA systems for general topics (e. g. , Yahoo! Answers, Baidu Knows), questions and answers in domain-specific CQA systems are mostly in the same topical domain, enabling more comprehensive interaction between users on fine-grained topics. In such systems, users are more likely to ask questions on unfamiliar topics and to answer questions matching their expertise. Users can also vote answers based on their judgements. In this paper, we propose a Tri-Role Topic Model (TRTM) to model the tri-roles of users (i. e. , as askers, answerers, and voters, respectively) and the activities of each role including composing question, selecting question to answer, contributing and voting answers. The proposed model can be used to enhance CQA systems from many perspectives. As a case study, we conducted experiments on ranking answers for questions on Stack Overflow, a CQA system for professional and enthusiast programmers. Experimental results show that TRTM is effective in facilitating users getting ideal rankings of answers, particularly for new and less popular questions. Evaluated on nDCG, TRTM outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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TIST Journal 2015 Journal Article

An Association-Based Unified Framework for Mining Features and Opinion Words

  • Zhen Hai
  • Kuiyu Chang
  • Gao Cong
  • Christopher C. Yang

Mining features and opinion words is essential for fine-grained opinion analysis of customer reviews. It is observed that semantic dependencies naturally exist between features and opinion words, even among features or opinion words themselves. In this article, we employ a corpus statistics association measure to quantify the pairwise word dependencies and propose a generalized association-based unified framework to identify features, including explicit and implicit features, and opinion words from reviews. We first extract explicit features and opinion words via an association-based bootstrapping method (ABOOT). ABOOT starts with a small list of annotated feature seeds and then iteratively recognizes a large number of domain-specific features and opinion words by discovering the corpus statistics association between each pair of words on a given review domain. Two instances of this ABOOT method are evaluated based on two particular association models, likelihood ratio tests (LRTs) and latent semantic analysis (LSA). Next, we introduce a natural extension to identify implicit features by employing the recognized known semantic correlations between features and opinion words. Experimental results illustrate the benefits of the proposed association-based methods for identifying features and opinion words versus benchmark methods.

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AAAI Conference 2015 Conference Paper

DynaDiffuse: A Dynamic Diffusion Model for Continuous Time Constrained Influence Maximization

  • Miao Xie
  • Qiusong Yang
  • Qing Wang
  • Gao Cong
  • Gerard Melo

Studying the spread of phenomena in social networks is critical but still not fully solved. Existing influence maximization models assume a static network, disregarding its evolution over time. We introduce the continuous time constrained influence maximization problem for dynamic diffusion networks, based on a novel diffusion model called DYNADIFFUSE. Although the problem is NP-hard, the influence spread functions are monotonic and submodular, enabling fast approximations on top of an innovative stochastic model checking approach. Experiments on real social network data show that our model finds higher quality solutions and our algorithm outperforms state-of-art alternatives.

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AAAI Conference 2015 Conference Paper

Mining User Intents in Twitter: A Semi-Supervised Approach to Inferring Intent Categories for Tweets

  • Jinpeng Wang
  • Gao Cong
  • Xin Zhao
  • Xiaoming Li

In this paper, we propose to study the problem of identifying and classifying tweets into intent categories. For example, a tweet “I wanna buy a new car” indicates the user’s intent for buying a car. Identifying such intent tweets will have great commercial value among others. In particular, it is important that we can distinguish different types of intent tweets. We propose to classify intent tweets into six categories, namely Food & Drink, Travel, Career & Education, Goods & Services, Event & Activities and Trifle. We propose a semi-supervised learning approach to categorizing intent tweets into the six categories. We construct a test collection by using a bootstrap method. Our experimental results show that our approach is effective in inferring intent categories for tweets.

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AAAI Conference 2015 Conference Paper

On Information Coverage for Location Category Based Point-of-Interest Recommendation

  • Xuefeng Chen
  • Yifeng Zeng
  • Gao Cong
  • Shengchao Qin
  • Yanping Xiang
  • Yuanshun Dai

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation becomes a valuable service in location-based social networks. Based on the norm that similar users are likely to have similar preference of POIs, the current recommendation techniques mainly focus on users’ preference to provide accurate recommendation results. This tends to generate a list of homogeneous POIs that are clustered into a narrow band of location categories (like food, museum, etc.) in a city. However, users are more interested to taste a wide range of flavors that are exposed in a global set of location categories in the city. In this paper, we formulate a new POI recommendation problem, namely top-K location category based POI recommendation, by introducing information coverage to encode the location categories of POIs in a city. The problem is NP-hard. We develop a greedy algorithm and further optimization to solve this challenging problem. The experimental results on two real-world datasets demonstrate the utility of new POI recommendations and the superior performance of the proposed algorithms.

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IJCAI Conference 2015 Conference Paper

Personalized Ranking Metric Embedding for Next New POI Recommendation

  • Shanshan Feng
  • Xutao Li
  • Yifeng Zeng
  • Gao Cong
  • Yeow Meng Chee
  • Quan Yuan

The rapidly growing of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) provides a vast amount of check-in data, which enables many services, e. g. , point-ofinterest (POI) recommendation. In this paper, we study the next new POI recommendation problem in which new POIs with respect to users’ current location are to be recommended. The challenge lies in the difficulty in precisely learning users’ sequential information and personalizing the recommendation model. To this end, we resort to the Metric Embedding method for the recommendation, which avoids drawbacks of the Matrix Factorization technique. We propose a personalized ranking metric embedding method (PRME) to model personalized check-in sequences. We further develop a PRME-G model, which integrates sequential information, individual preference, and geographical influence, to improve the recommendation performance. Experiments on two real-world LBSN datasets demonstrate that our new algorithm outperforms the stateof-the-art next POI recommendation methods.

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IS Journal 2014 Journal Article

3D Subspace Clustering for Value Investing

  • Kelvin Sim
  • Vivekanand Gopalkrishnan
  • Clifton Phua
  • Gao Cong

Using Graham's rules on picking stocks has been proven to generate profits for value investors. The authors propose using 3D subspace clustering to generate rules to pick potential undervalued stocks; 3D subspace clustering is effective in handling high-dimensional financial data and is adaptive to new data. In addition, its results aren't influenced by human biases and emotions, and are easily interpretable.

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AAAI Conference 2014 Conference Paper

Influence Maximization with Novelty Decay in Social Networks

  • Shanshan Feng
  • Xuefeng Chen
  • Gao Cong
  • Yifeng Zeng
  • Yeow Meng Chee
  • Yanping Xiang

Influence maximization problem is to find a set of seed nodes in a social network such that their influence spread is maximized under certain propagation models. A few algorithms have been proposed for solving this problem. However, they have not considered the impact of novelty decay on influence propagation, i. e. , repeated exposures will have diminishing influence on users. In this paper, we consider the problem of influence maximization with novelty decay (IMND). We investigate the effect of novelty decay on influence propagation on real-life datasets and formulate the IMND problem. We further analyze the problem properties and propose an influence estimation technique. We demonstrate the performance of our algorithms on four social networks.

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AAAI Conference 2011 Conference Paper

Integrating Community Question and Answer Archives

  • Wei Wei
  • Gao Cong
  • Xiaoli Li
  • See-Kiong Ng
  • Guohui Li

Question and answer pairs in Community Question Answering (CQA) services are organized into hierarchical structures or taxonomies to facilitate users to find the answers for their questions conveniently. We observe that different CQA services have their own knowledge focus and used different taxonomies to organize their question and answer pairs in their archives. As there are no simple semantic mappings between the taxonomies of the CQA services, the integration of CQA services is a challenging task. The existing approaches on integrating taxonomies ignore the hierarchical structures of the source taxonomy. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that is capable of incorporating the parent-child and sibling information in the hierarchical structures of the source taxonomy for accurate taxonomy integration. Our experimental results with real world CQA data demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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