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most citedTrajectory Recovery From Ash: User Privacy Is NOT Preserved in Aggregated Mobility Data

135 citations · 557 across the 54 of their papers we have counts for

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57 papers

cs.SE2026

VERAS: Verification-Guided Adaptive Search for Reliable Operations Research

Minbo Ma, Honglin Zhang, Bangtao Zhou +5

Advances in reasoning, coding, and tool use enable LLM agents to solve operations research (OR) problems through iterative problem modeling, program construction, and verification.…

cs.CY2026

AgentSociety 2: An Integrated Research Environment for Executable Social Science

Jinghua Piao, Jun Zhang, Haoyu Huang +16

AI scientist systems are beginning to automate parts of scientific research, but social science poses a distinct challenge: its objects of inquiry are not merely datasets or labora…

cs.AI2026

Agentic-Ideation: Sample Efficient Agentic Trajectories Synthesis for Scientific Ideation Agents

Keyu Zhao, Lingyan Kong, Fengli Xu +1

Ideation plays a pivotal role in scientific discovery. Recent LLM, especially AI Scientist systems, show promising potential for automated ideation. However, existing approaches pr…

physics.soc-ph2026

Perceiving exposure segregation with open urban imagery

Yunke Zhang, Ruolong Ma, Xin Zhang +4

Socioeconomic exposure segregation -- the lack of daily interaction between income groups -- erodes social capital and entrenches inequality, yet the specific physical features tha…

cs.HC2026

HybridQuestion: Human-AI Collaboration for Identifying High-Impact Research Questions

Keyu Zhao, Fengli Xu, Yong Li +1

The "AI Scientist" paradigm is transforming scientific research by automating key stages of the research process, from idea generation to scholarly writing. This shift is expected…

cs.CE2026

SciNet: Evaluating AI Agents in Relation-Aware Scientific Literature Retrieval

Chenyang Shao, Fengli Xu, Yong Li

AI agents have seen widespread adoption in information retrieval for scientific research, giving rise to tools such as Deep Research. However, existing retrieval agents mainly rely…

cs.CY2025

AI Urban Scientist: Multi-Agent Collaborative Automation for Urban Research

Tong Xia, Jiankun Zhang, Ruiwen You +8

Urban research aims to understand how cities operate and evolve as complex adaptive systems. With the rapid growth of urban data and analytical methodologies, the central challenge…

cs.CY2025

OmniScientist: Toward a Co-evolving Ecosystem of Human and AI Scientists

Chenyang Shao, Dehao Huang, Yu Li +18

With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents have demonstrated increasing proficiency in scientific tasks, ranging from hypothesis generation and experimen…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

MirrorMind: Empowering OmniScientist with the Expert Perspectives and Collective Knowledge of Human Scientists

Qingbin Zeng, Bingbing Fan, Zhiyu Chen +7

The emergence of AI Scientists has demonstrated remarkable potential in automating scientific research. However, current approaches largely conceptualize scientific discovery as a…

cs.AI2025

Deep Ideation: Designing LLM Agents to Generate Novel Research Ideas on Scientific Concept Network

Keyu Zhao, Weiquan Lin, Qirui Zheng +2

Novel research ideas play a critical role in advancing scientific inquiries. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential to generate novel…

cs.CL2025

AgentExpt: Automating AI Experiment Design with LLM-based Resource Retrieval Agent

Yu Li, Lehui Li, Lin Chen +3

Large language model agents are becoming increasingly capable at web-centric tasks such as information retrieval, complex reasoning. These emerging capabilities have given rise to…

cs.AI2025

Rationality Check! Benchmarking the Rationality of Large Language Models

Zhilun Zhou, Jing Yi Wang, Nicholas Sukiennik +4

Large language models (LLMs), a recent advance in deep learning and machine intelligence, have manifested astonishing capacities, now considered among the most promising for artifi…

cs.LG2025

Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning Enhances Activation Intensity and Diversity in the Internal Circuitry of LLMs

Honglin Zhang, Qianyue Hao, Fengli Xu +1

Large language models (LLMs) acquire extensive prior knowledge through large-scale pretraining and can be further enhanced via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or reinforcement learnin…

cs.HC2025

FingerTip 20K: A Benchmark for Proactive and Personalized Mobile LLM Agents

Qinglong Yang, Haoming Li, Haotian Zhao +4

Mobile GUI agents are becoming critical tools to improve user experience on smart devices, with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) emerging as the dominant paradigms in this…

q-bio.NC2025

AI Agent Behavioral Science

Lin Chen, Yunke Zhang, Jie Feng +13

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the development of AI agents that exhibit increasingly human-like behaviors, including planning, adaptation, and social…

cs.AI2025

CrimeMind: Simulating Urban Crime with Multi-Modal LLM Agents

Qingbin Zeng, Ruotong Zhao, Jinzhu Mao +3

Modeling urban crime is an important yet challenging task that requires understanding the subtle visual, social, and cultural cues embedded in urban environments. Previous work has…

cs.IR2025

Reason-to-Recommend: Using Interaction-of-Thought Reasoning to Enhance LLM Recommendation

Keyu Zhao, Fengli Xu, Yong Li

Driven by advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), integrating them into recommendation tasks has gained interest due to their strong semantic understanding and prompt flexibility…

cs.CL2025

Token Signature: Predicting Chain-of-Thought Gains with Token Decoding Feature in Large Language Models

Peijie Liu, Fengli Xu, Yong Li

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) technique has proven effective in improving the performance of large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks. However, the performance gains are in…

cs.CL2025

AgentSwift: Efficient LLM Agent Design via Value-guided Hierarchical Search

Yu Li, Lehui Li, Zhihao Wu +5

Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated strong capabilities across diverse domains, yet automated agent design remains a significant challenge. Current automated agent…

cs.CL2025

Route-and-Reason: Scaling Large Language Model Reasoning with Reinforced Model Router

Chenyang Shao, Xinyang Liu, Yutang Lin +2

Chain-of-thought has been proven essential for enhancing the complex reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), but it also leads to high computational costs. Recent adva…

cs.IR2025

AgentRecBench: Benchmarking LLM Agent-based Personalized Recommender Systems

Yu Shang, Peijie Liu, Yuwei Yan +9

The emergence of agentic recommender systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) represents a paradigm shift in personalized recommendations, leveraging LLMs' advanced reasonin…

cs.AI2025

A Survey of Large Language Model-Powered Spatial Intelligence Across Scales: Advances in Embodied Agents, Smart Cities, and Earth Science

Jie Feng, Jinwei Zeng, Qingyue Long +15

Over the past year, the development of large language models (LLMs) has brought spatial intelligence into focus, with much attention on vision-based embodied intelligence. However,…

cs.CY2025★ 2 cited

An Evaluation of Cultural Value Alignment in LLM

Nicholas Sukiennik, Chen Gao, Fengli Xu +1

LLMs as intelligent agents are being increasingly applied in scenarios where human interactions are involved, leading to a critical concern about whether LLMs are faithful to the v…

cs.CL2025

Invisible Walls in Cities: Designing LLM Agent to Predict Urban Segregation Experience with Social Media Content

Bingbing Fan, Lin Chen, Songwei Li +4

Understanding experienced segregation in urban daily life is crucial for addressing societal inequalities and fostering inclusivity. The abundance of user-generated reviews on soci…