Full publication list

2016–2026

← Selected publications

Student advisees are underlined; * marks corresponding authors. Paper links are included when a stable publisher, preprint, or local PDF is available. Source code is generally released through our group’s GitHub.

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

  • [VLDBJ] Hao Liu, Jindong Han, Yanjie Fu, Yanyan Li, Kai Chen, Hui Xiong. Unified Route Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Transportation Recommendation with Spatiotemporal Pre-Training. The VLDB Journal, Accepted.

  • [TKDE] Weijia Zhang, Hao Liu*, Tong Xu, Fan Wang, Haoran Xin, Hua Wu, Hui Xiong*. RLCharge: Imitative Multi-Agent Spatiotemporal Reinforcement Learning for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Accepted.

  • [TKDE] Hao Liu, Ying Li, Yanjie Fu, Huaibo Mei, Hui Xiong. Polestar++: An Intelligent Routing Engine for Nationwide Public Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Accepted.

  • [TKDE] Jindong Han, Hao Liu*, Haoyi Xiong, Jing Yang. Semi-Supervised Air Quality Forecasting via Self-Supervised Hierarchical Graph Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Accepted.

  • [TKDE] Zeming Liu, Ding Zhou, Hao Liu, Haifeng Wang, Zheng-Yu Niu, Hua Wu, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Hui Xiong. Graph-Grounded Goal Planning for Conversational Recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Accepted.

  • [TKDD] Hao Liu, Qingyu Guo, Hengshu Zhu, Yanjie Fu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xiaojuan Ma, Hui Xiong. Characterizing and Forecasting Urban Vibrancy Evolution: A Multi-View Graph Mining Perspective. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Accepted.

  • [TKDD] Hao Liu, Qingyu Guo, Hengshu Zhu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Shengwen Yang, Dejing Dou, Hui Xiong. Who will Win the Data Science Competition? Insights from KDD Cup 2019 and Beyond. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Accepted.

  • [TKDD] Ningjun Zhu, Jian Cao, Xinjiang Lu, Chuanren Liu, Hao Liu, Yanyan Li, Xiangfeng Luo, Hui Xiong. Predicting a Person’s Next Activity Region with a Dynamic Region-Relation-Aware Graph Neural Network. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Accepted.

  • [TITS] Yuecheng Rong, Zhimian Xu, Jun Liu, Hao Liu, Jian Ding, Xuanyu Liu, Wei Luo, Chuanming Zhang, Jiaxiang Gao. Du-Bus: A Realtime Bus Waiting Time Estimation System Based On Multi-source Data. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Accepted.

  • [NeurIPS] Fan Liu, Hao Liu*, Wenzhao Jiang. Practical Adversarial Attacks on Spatiotemporal Traffic Forecasting Models. In Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Virtual Conference, 2022.

  • [KDD] Hao Liu, Qian Gao, Xiaochao Liao, Guangxing Chen, Hao Xiong, Silin Ren, Guobao Yang, and Zhiwei Zha. Lion: A GPU-Accelerated Online Serving System for Web-Scale Recommendation at Baidu. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Washington, DC, USA, 2022.

  • [KDD] Weijia Zhang, Hao Liu*, Jindong Han, Yong Ge, and Hui Xiong*. Multi-Agent Graph Convolutional Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Electric Vehicle Charging Pricing. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Washington, DC, USA, 2022.

  • [KDD] Zhuoning Guo, Hao Liu*, Le Zhang, Qi Zhang, Hengshu Zhu, and Hui Xiong*. Talent Demand-Supply Joint Prediction with Dynamic Heterogeneous Graph Enhanced Meta-Learning. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Washington, DC, USA, 2022.

  • [IJCAI] Wei Fan, Kunpeng Liu, Hao Liu, Hengshu Zhu, Hui Xiong, Yanjie Fu. Feature and Instance Joint Selection: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective. In Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2022.

  • [AAAI] Denghui Zhang, Zixuan Yuan, Hao Liu, Xiaodong Lin and Hui Xiong. Learning to Walk with Dual Agents for Knowledge Graph Reasoning. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2022.

  • [ICDM] Qingyan Zhu, Yize Chen*, Hao Wang*, Zhenyu Zeng, Hao Liu*. A Knowledge-Enhanced Framework for Imitative Transportation Trajectory Generation. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Orlando, FL, USA, 2022.

2021

  • [TKDE] Wei Fan, Kunpeng Liu, Hao Liu, Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Yanjie Fu. Interactive Reinforcement Learning for Feature Selection with Decision Tree in the Loop. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Accepted.

  • [KDD] Hao Liu, Qian Gao, Jiang Li, Xiaochao Liao, Hao Xiong, Guangxing Chen, Wenlin Wang, Guobao Yang, Zhiwei Zha, Daxiang Dong, Dejing Dou, Haoyi Xiong. JiZhi: A Fast and Cost-Effective Model-As-A-Service System for Web-Scale Online Inference at Baidu. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Virtual Conference, 2021.

  • [KDD] Weijia Zhang, Hao Liu*, Lijun Zha, Hengshu Zhu, Ji Liu, Dejing Dou, Hui Xiong*. MugRep: A Multi-Task Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning Framework for Real Estate Appraisal. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Virtual Conference, 2021.

  • [KDD] Qi Zhang, Hengshu Zhu, Ying Sun, Hao Liu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Hui Xiong. Talent Demand Forecasting with Attentive Neural Sequential Model. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Virtual Conference, 2021.

  • [KDD] Denghui Zhang, Zixuan Yuan, Yanchi Liu, Hao Liu, Zuohui Fu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Hui Xiong, Haifeng Chen. Domain-oriented Language Modeling with Adaptive Hybrid Masking and Optimal Transport Alignment. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Virtual Conference, 2021.

  • [WWW] Weijia Zhang, Hao Liu*, Fan Wang, Tong Xu, Haoran Xin, Dejing Dou and Hui Xiong*. A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging Recommendation. In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2021.

  • [WWW] Zixuan Yuan, Hao Liu*, Junming Liu, Yanchi Liu, Yang Yang, Renjun Hu and Hui Xiong*. Incremental Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning for Online Query-POI Matching. In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2021.

  • [VLDB] Hao Liu, Jindong Han, Yanjie Fu, Jingbo Zhou, Xinjiang Lu and Hui Xiong. Multi-Modal Transportation Recommendation with Unified Route Representation Learning. In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2021.

  • [AAAI] Hao Liu, Qiyu Wu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xinjiang Lu, Dejing Dou and Hui Xiong. Community-Aware Multi-Task Transportation Demand Prediction. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Conference, 2021.

  • [AAAI] Jindong Han, Hao Liu*, Hengshu Zhu, Dejing Dou and Hui Xiong. Joint Air Quality and Weather Prediction Based on Multi-Adversarial Spatiotemporal Networks. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Conference, 2021.

  • [AAAI] Zixuan Yuan, Hao Liu*, Renjun Hu, Denghui Zhang and Hui Xiong*. Self-Supervised Prototype Representation Learning for Event-based Corporate Profiling. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Conference, 2021.

  • [AAAI] Haoran Xin, Xinjiang Lu, Tong Xu, Hao Liu, Jingjing Gu, Dejing Dou and Hui Xiong. Out-of-Town Recommendation with Travel Intention Modeling. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Conference, 2021.

  • [NeurIPS] Can Chen, Shuhao Zheng, Xi Chen, Erqun Dong, Xue Liu, Hao Liu, Dejing Dou. Generalized Data Weighting via Class-Level Gradient Manipulation. In Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Virtual Conference, 2021.

  • [DASFAA] Ding Zhou, Hao Liu*, Tong Xu, Le Zhang, Rui Zha, Hui Xiong*, Transportation Recommendation with Fairness Consideration, In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Taipei, China, 2021.

  • [SDM] Wei Fan, Kunpeng Liu, Hao Liu, Dejing Dou, Yanjie Fu. Automated Group-based Feature Selection via Interactive Reinforcement Learning. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Virtual Conference, 2021.

  • [ICDM] Wei Fan, Kunpeng Liu, Rui Xie, Hao Liu, Hui Xiong, Yanjie Fu. Fair Graph Auto-Encoder for Unbiased Graph Representations with Wasserstein Distance. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Auckland, New Zealand, 2021. (Short paper)

2020

2019

Before 2019

  • [TKDE] Hao Liu, Jiang Xiao, Haoyu Tan, Qiong Luo, Jintao Zhao, and Lionel M Ni. Efficient detection of soft concatenation mapping. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2018.

  • [Big Data] Bing He, Dian Zhang, Siyuan Liu, Hao Liu, Dawei Han, Lionel M. Ni. Profiling driver Behavior for personalized insurance pricing and maximal profit. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Seattle, WA, USA, 2018.

  • [CIKM] Hao Liu, Yudian Ji, Jiang Xiao, Haoyu Tan, Qiong Luo, and Lionel M Ni. TICC: Transparent inter-column compression for column-oriented database systems. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Singapore, 2017. (Short paper)

  • [APWeb-WAIM] Hao Liu, Jiang Xiao, Xianjun Guo, Haoyu Tan, Qiong Luo, and Lionel M Ni. Cuttle: Enabling cross-column compression in distributed column stores. In Asia-Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, Beijing, China, 2017. (Short paper)

  • [ICPADS] Yudian Ji, Hao Liu, Xiaoying Liu, Ye Ding, and Wuman Luo. A comparison of road-network-constrained trajectory compression methods. In 2016 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Wuhan, China, 2016.