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20222026
most citedImputeFormer: Low Rankness-Induced Transformers for Generalizable Spatiotemporal Imputation

94 citations · 324 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.RO2026

From Attacks to Curricula: Learnability-Guided Adversarial Training for Safe Autonomous Driving

Yuewen Mei, Tong Nie, Jie Sun +3

Closed-loop adversarial training improves autonomous driving safety by exposing policies to rare safety-critical scenarios. Standard pipelines first generate adversarial scenarios…

cs.AI2025

Steerable Adversarial Scenario Generation through Test-Time Preference Alignment

Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Yihong Tang +5

Adversarial scenario generation is a cost-effective approach for safety assessment of autonomous driving systems. However, existing methods are often constrained to a single, fixed…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Predicting Large-scale Urban Network Dynamics with Energy-informed Graph Neural Diffusion

Tong Nie, Jian Sun, Wei Ma

Networked urban systems facilitate the flow of people, resources, and services, and are essential for economic and social interactions. These systems often involve complex processe…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Seeking to Collide: Online Safety-Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving with Retrieval Augmented Large Language Models

Yuewen Mei, Tong Nie, Jian Sun +1

Simulation-based testing is crucial for validating autonomous vehicles (AVs), yet existing scenario generation methods either overfit to common driving patterns or operate in an of…

cs.AI2025★ 42 cited

Exploring the Roles of Large Language Models in Reshaping Transportation Systems: A Survey, Framework, and Roadmap

Tong Nie, Jian Sun, Wei Ma

Modern transportation systems face pressing challenges due to increasing demand, dynamic environments, and heterogeneous information integration. The rapid evolution of Large Langu…

cs.LG2025

Collaborative Imputation of Urban Time Series through Cross-city Meta-learning

Tong Nie, Wei Ma, Jian Sun +2

Urban time series, such as mobility flows, energy consumption, and pollution records, encapsulate complex urban dynamics and structures. However, data collection in each city is im…

cs.LG2025★ 33 cited

LLM-attacker: Enhancing Closed-loop Adversarial Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models

Yuewen Mei, Tong Nie, Jian Sun +1

Ensuring and improving the safety of autonomous driving systems (ADS) is crucial for the deployment of highly automated vehicles, especially in safety-critical events. To address t…

cs.LG2024★ 18 cited

Joint Estimation and Prediction of City-wide Delivery Demand: A Large Language Model Empowered Graph-based Learning Approach

Tong Nie, Junlin He, Yuewen Mei +4

The proliferation of e-commerce and urbanization has significantly intensified delivery operations in urban areas, boosting the volume and complexity of delivery demand. Data-drive…

cs.AI2024★ 3 cited

Geolocation Representation from Large Language Models are Generic Enhancers for Spatio-Temporal Learning

Junlin He, Tong Nie, Wei Ma

In the geospatial domain, universal representation models are significantly less prevalent than their extensive use in natural language processing and computer vision. This discrep…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

High-Dimensional Fault Tolerance Testing of Highly Automated Vehicles Based on Low-Rank Models

Yuewen Mei, Tong Nie, Jian Sun +1

Ensuring fault tolerance of Highly Automated Vehicles (HAVs) is crucial for their safety due to the presence of potentially severe faults. Hence, Fault Injection (FI) testing is co…

cs.LG2024★ 8 cited

Channel-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation in Time Series Forecasting

Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Guoyang Qin +2

The balance between model capacity and generalization has been a key focus of recent discussions in long-term time series forecasting. Two representative channel strategies are clo…

cs.LG2024

Generalizable Implicit Neural Representation As a Universal Spatiotemporal Traffic Data Learner

Tong Nie, Guoyang Qin, Wei Ma +1

. Spatiotemporal Traffic Data (STTD) meas…

cs.LG2024★ 9 cited

Spatiotemporal Implicit Neural Representation as a Generalized Traffic Data Learner

Tong Nie, Guoyang Qin, Wei Ma +1

Spatiotemporal Traffic Data (STTD) measures the complex dynamical behaviors of the multiscale transportation system. Existing methods aim to reconstruct STTD using low-dimensional…

cs.LG2023★ 94 cited

ImputeFormer: Low Rankness-Induced Transformers for Generalizable Spatiotemporal Imputation

Tong Nie, Guoyang Qin, Wei Ma +2

Missing data is a pervasive issue in both scientific and engineering tasks, especially for the modeling of spatiotemporal data. This problem attracts many studies to contribute to…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Contextualizing MLP-Mixers Spatiotemporally for Urban Data Forecast at Scale

Tong Nie, Guoyang Qin, Lijun Sun +3

Spatiotemporal traffic data (STTD) displays complex correlational structures. Extensive advanced techniques have been designed to capture these structures for effective forecasting…

stat.ML2023★ 3 cited

Towards better traffic volume estimation: Jointly addressing the underdetermination and nonequilibrium problems with correlation-adaptive GNNs

Tong Nie, Guoyang Qin, Yunpeng Wang +1

Traffic volume is an indispensable ingredient to provide fine-grained information for traffic management and control. However, due to limited deployment of traffic sensors, obtaini…

stat.ML2022★ 42 cited

Correlating sparse sensing for large-scale traffic speed estimation: A Laplacian-enhanced low-rank tensor kriging approach

Tong Nie, Guoyang Qin, Yunpeng Wang +1

Traffic speed is central to characterizing the fluidity of the road network. Many transportation applications rely on it, such as real-time navigation, dynamic route planning, and…

stat.ML2022★ 67 cited

Truncated tensor Schatten p-norm based approach for spatiotemporal traffic data imputation with complicated missing patterns

Tong Nie, Guoyang Qin, Jian Sun

Rapid advances in sensor, wireless communication, cloud computing and data science have brought unprecedented amount of data to assist transportation engineers and researchers in m…