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Gao Cong

10 accepted papers

2025

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

ICML 2025poster

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 eff…

2025

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

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

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 spars…

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2025

Reconciling Geospatial Prediction and Retrieval via Sparse Representations

NeurIPS 2025poster

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,…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

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

NeurIPS 2025poster

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 representati…

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2025

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

NeurIPS 2025oral

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 p…

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2024

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

ICLR 2024poster

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…

2024

Road Network Representation Learning with the Third Law of Geography

NeurIPS 2024poster

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 Fi…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

UrbanLLM: Autonomous Urban Activity Planning and Management with Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Location-based services play an critical role in improving the quality of our daily lives. Despite the proliferation of numerous specialized AI models within spatio-temporal context of location-based services, these models struggle to autonomously tackle problems regarding complex urban planing and…

2023

Multivariate Time-series Imputation with Disentangled Temporal Representations

ICLR 2023poster

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., p…

Cited by 37SourcePDFScholar