4 papers
Beyond Isolated Investor: Predicting Startup Success via Roleplay-Based Collective Agents
Zhongyang Liu, Haoyu Pei, Xiangyi Xiao +5
Due to the high value and high failure rates of startups, predicting their success is a critical challenge. Existing approaches typically model startup success from a single decisi…
The Gaining Paths to Investment Success: Information-Driven LLM Graph Reasoning for Venture Capital Prediction
Haoyu Pei, Zhongyang Liu, Xiangyi Xiao +4
Most venture capital (VC) investments fail, while a few deliver outsized returns. Accurately predicting startup success requires synthesizing complex relational evidence, including…
Tracing Footsteps of Similar Cities: Modeling Urban Economic Vitality with Dynamic Inter-City Graph Embeddings
Xiaofeng Li, Xiangyi Xiao, Xiaocong Du +2
Urban economic vitality is a crucial indicator of a city's long-term growth potential, comprising key metrics such as the annual number of new companies and the population employed…
When Life Paths Cross: Extracting Human Interactions in Time and Space from Wikipedia
Zhongyang Liu, Ying Zhang, Xiangyi Xiao +3
Interactions among notable individuals -- whether examined individually, in groups, or as networks -- often convey significant messages across cultural, economic, political, scient…