Search Results for author: Lijun Sun

Found 51 papers, 26 papers with code

Preference Optimization for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

no code implementations13 May 2025 Mingjun Pan, Guanquan Lin, You-Wei Luo, Bin Zhu, Zhien Dai, Lijun Sun, Chun Yuan

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful tool for neural combinatorial optimization, enabling models to learn heuristics that solve complex problems without requiring expert knowledge.

Combinatorial Optimization Reinforcement Learning (RL) +1

Likelihood-Free Variational Autoencoders

no code implementations24 Apr 2025 Chen Xu, Qiang Wang, Lijun Sun

In this work, we propose EnVAE, a novel likelihood-free generative framework that has a deterministic decoder and employs the energy score--a proper scoring rule--to build the reconstruction loss.

Decoder scoring rule

Multi-Agent Coordination across Diverse Applications: A Survey

no code implementations20 Feb 2025 Lijun Sun, Yijun Yang, Qiqi Duan, Yuhui Shi, Chao Lyu, Yu-Cheng Chang, Chin-Teng Lin, Yang shen

Multi-agent coordination studies the underlying mechanism enabling the trending spread of diverse multi-agent systems (MAS) and has received increasing attention, driven by the expansion of emerging applications and rapid AI advances.

Survey

Adversarial Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models for Time Series Forecasting

1 code implementation11 Dec 2024 Fuqiang Liu, Sicong Jiang, Luis Miranda-Moreno, Seongjin Choi, Lijun Sun

However, their robustness and reliability in real-world applications remain under-explored, particularly concerning their susceptibility to adversarial attacks.

Adversarial Attack Time Series +1

Generalized Least Squares Kernelized Tensor Factorization

1 code implementation9 Dec 2024 MengYing Lei, Lijun Sun

In this paper, we introduce the Generalized Least Squares Kernelized Tensor Factorization (GLSKF) framework for tensor completion.

Image Inpainting Image Reconstruction +1

SPTTE: A Spatiotemporal Probabilistic Framework for Travel Time Estimation

1 code implementation27 Nov 2024 Chen Xu, Qiang Wang, Lijun Sun

While existing research employs probabilistic modeling to assess travel time uncertainty and account for correlations between multiple trips, modeling the temporal variability of multi-trip travel time distributions remains a significant challenge.

Travel Time Estimation

MVG-CRPS: A Robust Loss Function for Multivariate Probabilistic Forecasting

no code implementations11 Oct 2024 Vincent Zhihao Zheng, Lijun Sun

Multivariate Gaussian (MVG) distributions are central to modeling correlated continuous variables in probabilistic forecasting.

Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting scoring rule +1

A Gentle Introduction and Tutorial on Deep Generative Models in Transportation Research

1 code implementation9 Oct 2024 Seongjin Choi, Zhixiong Jin, Seung Woo Ham, Jiwon Kim, Lijun Sun

Deep Generative Models (DGMs) have rapidly advanced in recent years, becoming essential tools in various fields due to their ability to learn complex data distributions and generate synthetic data.

Enabling Tensor Decomposition for Time-Series Classification via A Simple Pseudo-Laplacian Contrast

no code implementations23 Sep 2024 Man Li, Ziyue Li, Lijun Sun, Fugee Tsung

Tensor decomposition has emerged as a prominent technique to learn low-dimensional representation under the supervision of reconstruction error, primarily benefiting data inference tasks like completion and imputation, but not classification task.

Data Augmentation Imputation +3

Communication-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control

no code implementations12 Jul 2024 Sicong Jiang, Seongjin Choi, Lijun Sun

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) plays a pivotal role in enhancing traffic efficiency and safety in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs).

Autonomous Vehicles Decision Making +4

Link Representation Learning for Probabilistic Travel Time Estimation

1 code implementation8 Jul 2024 Chen Xu, Qiang Wang, Lijun Sun

During inference, we estimate the probability distribution of the travel time of a queried trip conditional on the completed trips that are spatiotemporally adjacent.

Data Augmentation Representation Learning +1

Multivariate Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting with Correlated Errors

1 code implementation1 Feb 2024 Vincent Zhihao Zheng, Lijun Sun

Accurately modeling the correlation structure of errors is critical for reliable uncertainty quantification in probabilistic time series forecasting.

Computational Efficiency Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting +2

Rethinking Urban Mobility Prediction: A Super-Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Approach

2 code implementations4 Dec 2023 Jinguo Cheng, Ke Li, Yuxuan Liang, Lijun Sun, Junchi Yan, Yuankai Wu

To address this challenge, we present the Super-Multivariate Urban Mobility Transformer (SUMformer), which utilizes a specially designed attention mechanism to calculate temporal and cross-variable correlations and reduce computational costs stemming from a large number of time series.

Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Time Series +1

A Critical Perceptual Pre-trained Model for Complex Trajectory Recovery

no code implementations5 Nov 2023 Dedong Li, Ziyue Li, Zhishuai Li, Lei Bai, Qingyuan Gong, Lijun Sun, Wolfgang Ketter, Rui Zhao

Then, we propose a Multi-view Graph and Complexity Aware Transformer (MGCAT) model to encode these semantics in trajectory pre-training from two aspects: 1) adaptively aggregate the multi-view graph features considering trajectory pattern, and 2) higher attention to critical nodes in a complex trajectory.

Trajectory Recovery

Choose A Table: Tensor Dirichlet Process Multinomial Mixture Model with Graphs for Passenger Trajectory Clustering

no code implementations31 Oct 2023 Ziyue Li, Hao Yan, Chen Zhang, Lijun Sun, Wolfgang Ketter, Fugee Tsung

In this paper, we propose a novel tensor Dirichlet Process Multinomial Mixture model with graphs, which can preserve the hierarchical structure of the multi-dimensional trip information and cluster them in a unified one-step manner with the ability to determine the number of clusters automatically.

Clustering Community Detection +1

Enhancing Representation Learning for Periodic Time Series with Floss: A Frequency Domain Regularization Approach

1 code implementation2 Aug 2023 Chunwei Yang, Xiaoxu Chen, Lijun Sun, Hongyu Yang, Yuankai Wu

To address this gap, we propose an unsupervised method called Floss that automatically regularizes learned representations in the frequency domain.

Anomaly Detection Deep Learning +4

Contextualizing MLP-Mixers Spatiotemporally for Urban Data Forecast at Scale

1 code implementation4 Jul 2023 Tong Nie, Guoyang Qin, Lijun Sun, Wei Ma, Yu Mei, Jian Sun

Our findings contribute to the exploration of simple-yet-effective models for real-world STTD forecasting.

Computational Efficiency Decision Making

Tensor Dirichlet Process Multinomial Mixture Model for Passenger Trajectory Clustering

no code implementations23 Jun 2023 Ziyue Li, Hao Yan, Chen Zhang, Andi Wang, Wolfgang Ketter, Lijun Sun, Fugee Tsung

In this paper, we propose a novel Tensor Dirichlet Process Multinomial Mixture model (Tensor-DPMM), which is designed to preserve the multi-mode and hierarchical structure of the multi-dimensional trip information via tensor, and cluster them in a unified one-step manner.

Clustering Trajectory Clustering

Better Batch for Deep Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting

1 code implementation26 May 2023 Vincent Zhihao Zheng, Seongjin Choi, Lijun Sun

Deep probabilistic time series forecasting has gained attention for its ability to provide nonlinear approximation and valuable uncertainty quantification for decision-making.

Decision Making Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting +2

Traffic State Estimation from Vehicle Trajectories with Anisotropic Gaussian Processes

1 code implementation4 Mar 2023 Fan Wu, Zhanhong Cheng, Huiyu Chen, Tony Z. Qiu, Lijun Sun

However, the lack of sensors often results in incomplete traffic state data, making it challenging to obtain reliable information for decision-making.

Decision Making Gaussian Processes +1

Bayesian Kernelized Tensor Factorization as Surrogate for Bayesian Optimization

no code implementations28 Feb 2023 MengYing Lei, Lijun Sun

However, such simple kernel specifications are deficient in learning functions with complex features, such as being nonstationary, nonseparable, and multimodal.

Bayesian Optimization Gaussian Processes +1

Probabilistic Traffic Forecasting with Dynamic Regression

1 code implementation17 Jan 2023 Vincent Zhihao Zheng, Seongjin Choi, Lijun Sun

The newly designed loss function is based on the likelihood of a non-isotropic error term, enabling the model to generate probabilistic forecasts while preserving the original outputs of the base model.

regression Time Series +1

Scalable Dynamic Mixture Model with Full Covariance for Probabilistic Traffic Forecasting

no code implementations10 Dec 2022 Seongjin Choi, Nicolas Saunier, Vincent Zhihao Zheng, Martin Trepanier, Lijun Sun

Deep learning-based multivariate and multistep-ahead traffic forecasting models are typically trained with the mean squared error (MSE) or mean absolute error (MAE) as the loss function in a sequence-to-sequence setting, simply assuming that the errors follow an independent and isotropic Gaussian or Laplacian distributions.

Laplacian Convolutional Representation for Traffic Time Series Imputation

1 code implementation3 Dec 2022 Xinyu Chen, Zhanhong Cheng, HanQin Cai, Nicolas Saunier, Lijun Sun

In this study, we first introduce a Laplacian kernel to temporal regularization for characterizing local trends in traffic time series, which can be formulated as a circular convolution.

Decision Making Image Inpainting +4

Discovering Dynamic Patterns from Spatiotemporal Data with Time-Varying Low-Rank Autoregression

1 code implementation28 Nov 2022 Xinyu Chen, ChengYuan Zhang, Xiaoxu Chen, Nicolas Saunier, Lijun Sun

In the temporal context, the complex time-varying system behaviors can be revealed by the temporal modes in the proposed model.

Model Compression

Bayesian Complementary Kernelized Learning for Multidimensional Spatiotemporal Data

no code implementations21 Aug 2022 MengYing Lei, Aurelie Labbe, Lijun Sun

Probabilistic modeling of multidimensional spatiotemporal data is critical to many real-world applications.

Gaussian Processes

Toward multi-target self-organizing pursuit in a partially observable Markov game

1 code implementation24 Jun 2022 Lijun Sun, Yu-Cheng Chang, Chao Lyu, Ye Shi, Yuhui Shi, Chin-Teng Lin

The proposed distributed algorithm: fuzzy self-organizing cooperative coevolution (FSC2) is then leveraged to resolve the three challenges in multi-target SOP: distributed self-organizing search (SOS), distributed task allocation, and distributed single-target pursuit.

Decision Making Deep Reinforcement Learning +2

Forecasting Sparse Movement Speed of Urban Road Networks with Nonstationary Temporal Matrix Factorization

1 code implementation20 Mar 2022 Xinyu Chen, ChengYuan Zhang, Xi-Le Zhao, Nicolas Saunier, Lijun Sun

Movement speed data from urban road networks, computed from ridesharing vehicles or taxi trajectories, is often high-dimensional, sparse, and nonstationary (e. g., exhibiting seasonality).

Missing Values Multivariate Time Series Forecasting +1

Robust Dynamic Bus Control: A Distributional Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Approach

no code implementations2 Nov 2021 Jiawei Wang, Lijun Sun

However, the operation of a bus fleet is unstable in nature, and bus bunching has become a common phenomenon that undermines the efficiency and reliability of bus systems.

continuous-control Continuous Control +4

Hankel-structured Tensor Robust PCA for Multivariate Traffic Time Series Anomaly Detection

no code implementations8 Oct 2021 Xudong Wang, Luis Miranda-Moreno, Lijun Sun

We treat the raw data with anomalies as a multivariate time series matrix (location $\times$ time) and assume the denoised matrix has a low-rank structure.

Anomaly Detection Time Series +1

Spatial Aggregation and Temporal Convolution Networks for Real-time Kriging

1 code implementation24 Sep 2021 Yuankai Wu, Dingyi Zhuang, MengYing Lei, Aurelie Labbe, Lijun Sun

Specifically, we propose a novel spatial aggregation network (SAN) inspired by Principal Neighborhood Aggregation, which uses multiple aggregation functions to help one node gather diverse information from its neighbors.

Dynamic Spatiotemporal Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Traffic Data Imputation with Complex Missing Patterns

no code implementations17 Sep 2021 Yuebing Liang, Zhan Zhao, Lijun Sun

The results show that our proposed model outperforms existing deep learning models in all kinds of missing scenarios and the graph structure estimation technique contributes to the model performance.

Deep Learning Imputation +1

Spatially Focused Attack against Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks

no code implementations10 Sep 2021 Fuqiang Liu, Luis Miranda-Moreno, Lijun Sun

However, despite that recent studies have demonstrated that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to carefully designed perturbations in multiple domains like objection classification and graph representation, current adversarial works cannot be directly applied to spatiotemporal forecasting due to the causal nature and spatiotemporal mechanisms in forecasting models.

Management Traffic Prediction

Individual Mobility Prediction via Attentive Marked Temporal Point Processes

no code implementations6 Sep 2021 Yuankai Wu, Zhanhong Cheng, Lijun Sun

Individual mobility prediction is an essential task for transportation demand management and traffic system operation.

Management Point Processes +1

Scalable Spatiotemporally Varying Coefficient Modelling with Bayesian Kernelized Tensor Regression

no code implementations31 Aug 2021 MengYing Lei, Aurelie Labbe, Lijun Sun

To address this challenge, we summarize the spatiotemporally varying coefficients using a third-order tensor structure and propose to reformulate the spatiotemporally varying coefficient model as a special low-rank tensor regression problem.

regression

Low-Rank Hankel Tensor Completion for Traffic Speed Estimation

1 code implementation21 May 2021 Xudong Wang, Yuankai Wu, Dingyi Zhuang, Lijun Sun

This paper studies the traffic state estimation (TSE) problem using sparse observations from mobile sensors.

Matrix Completion

Reducing Bus Bunching with Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations2 May 2021 Jiawei Wang, Lijun Sun

However, due to the significant uncertainties in passenger demand and traffic conditions, bus operation is unstable in nature and bus bunching has become a common phenomenon that undermines the reliability and efficiency of bus services.

Graph Attention Inductive Learning +4

Low-Rank Autoregressive Tensor Completion for Spatiotemporal Traffic Data Imputation

1 code implementation30 Apr 2021 Xinyu Chen, MengYing Lei, Nicolas Saunier, Lijun Sun

In this paper, we propose a low-rank autoregressive tensor completion (LATC) framework by introducing \textit{temporal variation} as a new regularization term into the completion of a third-order (sensor $\times$ time of day $\times$ day) tensor.

Imputation Missing Values +3

One Vertex Attack on Graph Neural Networks-based Spatiotemporal Forecasting

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Fuqiang Liu, Luis Miranda Moreno, Lijun Sun

Empirical studies prove that perturbations in one vertex can be diffused into most of the graph when spatiotemporal GNNs are under One Vertex Attack.

Graph Classification

Industrial Topics in Urban Labor System

no code implementations18 Sep 2020 Jaehyuk Park, Morgan R. Frank, Lijun Sun, Hyejin Youn

It is therefore important to recognize that classification system are not necessarily static, especially for economic systems, and even more so in urban areas where most innovation takes place and is implemented.

Classification General Classification

Scalable Low-Rank Tensor Learning for Spatiotemporal Traffic Data Imputation

1 code implementation7 Aug 2020 Xinyu Chen, Yixian Chen, Nicolas Saunier, Lijun Sun

Recent studies based on tensor nuclear norm have demonstrated the superiority of tensor learning in imputation tasks by effectively characterizing the complex correlations/dependencies in spatiotemporal data.

Imputation Traffic Data Imputation

Efficient Connected and Automated Driving System with Multi-agent Graph Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations6 Jul 2020 Tianyu Shi, Jiawei Wang, Yuankai Wu, Luis Miranda-Moreno, Lijun Sun

Instead of learning a reliable behavior for ego automated vehicle, we focus on how to improve the outcomes of the total transportation system by allowing each automated vehicle to learn cooperation with each other and regulate human-driven traffic flow.

Decision Making reinforcement-learning +1

Incremental Bayesian tensor learning for structural monitoring data imputation and response forecasting

no code implementations1 Jul 2020 Pu Ren, Xinyu Chen, Lijun Sun, Hao Sun

To address this fundamental issue, this paper presents an incremental Bayesian tensor learning method for reconstruction of spatiotemporal missing data in SHM and forecasting of structural response.

Imputation Incremental Learning +2

Low-Rank Autoregressive Tensor Completion for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

1 code implementation18 Jun 2020 Xinyu Chen, Lijun Sun

In this paper, we propose a low-rank autoregressive tensor completion (LATC) framework to model multivariate time series data.

Imputation Missing Values +3

Inductive Graph Neural Networks for Spatiotemporal Kriging

1 code implementation13 Jun 2020 Yuankai Wu, Dingyi Zhuang, Aurelie Labbe, Lijun Sun

Time series forecasting and spatiotemporal kriging are the two most important tasks in spatiotemporal data analysis.

Graph Neural Network Time Series +1

A Nonconvex Low-Rank Tensor Completion Model for Spatiotemporal Traffic Data Imputation

1 code implementation23 Mar 2020 Xinyu Chen, Jinming Yang, Lijun Sun

Sparsity and missing data problems are very common in spatiotemporal traffic data collected from various sensing systems.

Imputation Traffic Data Imputation

Bayesian Temporal Factorization for Multidimensional Time Series Prediction

3 code implementations14 Oct 2019 Xinyu Chen, Lijun Sun

In this paper, we propose a Bayesian temporal factorization (BTF) framework for modeling multidimensional time series -- in particular spatiotemporal data -- in the presence of missing values.

Imputation Missing Values +3

Efficient Motion Planning for Automated Lane Change based on Imitation Learning and Mixed-Integer Optimization

1 code implementation18 Apr 2019 Chenyang Xi, Tianyu Shi, Yuankai Wu, Lijun Sun

Traditional motion planning methods suffer from several drawbacks in terms of optimality, efficiency and generalization capability.

Action Generation Autonomous Driving +2

Cooperative coevolution of real predator robots and virtual robots in the pursuit domain

1 code implementation23 Jan 2019 Lijun Sun, Chao Lyu, Yuhui Shi

This paper presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO) based cooperative coevolutionary algorithm for the (predator) robots, called CCPSO-R, where real and virtual robots coexist in an evolutionary algorithm (EA).

Robotics Multiagent Systems

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