Publications

This page summarizes the publications related to Large Language Model (LLM), Generative AI, Generalizable AI, AIoT, Ubiquitous and Mobile Sensing, Deployable Sensing Systems, and Spatio-temporal Data Science. + indicates co-first authors. The authors with underline are the students working primarily or partially with me.

Preprint

[2025] What Do Large Language Models Know About Opinions?
Erfan Jahanparast, Zhiqing Hong, Serina Chang

[2025] Towards Generalizable Human Activity Recognition: A Survey
Yize Cai, Baoshen Guo, Flora Salim, Zhiqing Hong

[2025] Language Modeling for Urban Mobility: A Data-Centric Review and Guidelines
Baoshen Guo+, Zhiqing Hong+, Lidan Cao+, Donghang Li, Junyi Li, Can Rong, Alok Prakash, Shenhao Wang, Jinhua Zhao

2026

[Nature Cities] Evolving Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement from Urban Delivery with Millions of Phones
Zhiqing Hong, Zelong Li, Shuxin Zhong, Wenjun Lyu, Haotian Wang, Shenhao Wang, Shuai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Dabo Guan, Tian He, Guang Wang, and Desheng Zhang (Accepted in Principle)

[KDD’26] GenHAR: Generalizing Cross-domain Human Activity Recognition via Frequency Attention LLMs
Zhiqing Hong, Zelong Li, Xiubin Fan, Guang Yang, Baoshen Guo, Haotian Wang, Tian He, Desheng Zhang

[AAAI’26] GeoGen: A Two-stage Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Fine-grained Synthetic Location-based Social Network Trajectory Generation
Rongchao Xu, Kunlin Cai, Lin Jiang, Dahai Yu, Zhiqing Hong, Yuan Tian, and Guang Wang

2025

[MobiCom’25] DeployHAR: Experience Paper: Nationwide Human Behavior Sensing in Last-mile Delivery
Zhiqing Hong, Weibing Wang, Anlan Yu, Shuxin Zhong, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, Tian He, Desheng Zhang

[KDD’25] LLM4HAR: Generalizable On-device Human Activity Recognition with Pretrained LLMs
Zhiqing Hong, Yiwei Song, Zelong Li, Anlan Yu, Shuxin Zhong, Yi Ding, Tian He, Desheng Zhang

[TMC’25] Real-time Abnormal Address Detection for Mobile Devices in Location-based Services
Zhiqing Hong, Heng Yang, Haotian Wang, Wenjun Lyu, Yu Yang, Guang Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Yang Wang, and Desheng Zhang

[CIKM’25] D3-TR: Data-driven Daily Delivery Task Rescheduling for Cost-Effective Last-mile Delivery
Lidi Zhang, Yinfeng Xiang, Wenjun Lyu, Zhiqing Hong, Haotian Wang, Desheng Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, and Tian He (Best Student Applied Research Paper Award)

[ACL’25] CoAlign: Uncertainty Calibration of LLM for Geospatial Repartition
Zejun Xie, Zhiqing Hong, Wenjun Lyu, Haotian Wang, Guang Wang, and Desheng Zhang

[KDD’25] AddrLLM: Address Rewriting via Large Language Model on Nationwide Logistics Data
Qinchen Yang, Zhiqing Hong, Dongjiang Cao, Haotian Wang, Zejun Xie, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Yu Yang, and Desheng Zhang

[KDD’25] A Fraudulent Blind Shipment Detection Framework in Logistics
Hongyu Lin, Shuxin Zhong, Yan Fang, Zhiqing Hong, Wenjun Lyu, Qipeng Xie, Haotian Wang, Lu Wang, and Kaishun Wu

[SDM’25] AutoSTDiff: Autoregressive Spatio-Temporal Denoising Diffusion Model for Asynchronous Trajectory Generation
Rongchao Xu, Zhiqing Hong, and Guang Wang

[PerCom’25] FineSat: Enhancing GNSS Signals for High-precision Sensing
Anlan Yu, Xuanzhi Wang, Pei Wang, Jinkun Li, Xujun Ma, Zhiqing Hong, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, and Daqing Zhang

2024

[IMWUT/Ubicomp’24] CrossHAR: Generalizing Cross-dataset Human Activity Recognition via Hierarchical Self-Supervised Pretraining
Zhiqing Hong, Zelong Li, Shuxin Zhong, Wenjun Lyv, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, Tian He, and Desheng Zhang

[IMWUT/Ubicomp’24] SmallMap: Low-cost Community Road Map Sensing with Uncertain Delivery Behavior
Zhiqing Hong, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, Guang Wang, Tian He, and Desheng Zhang

[TKDE’24] Nationwide Behavior-Aware Coordinates Mining from Uncertain Delivery Events
Zhiqing Hong, Guang Wang, Wenjun Lyu, Baoshen Guo, Yi Ding, Haotian Wang, Shuai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, and Desheng Zhang

[EMNLP’24] Variational Language Concepts for Interpreting Foundation Language Models
Hengyi Wang, Shiwei Tan, Zhiqing Hong, Desheng Zhang, and Hao Wang

[KDD’24] Paths2Pair: Meta-path Based Link Prediction in Billion-Scale Commercial Heterogeneous Graphs
Jinquan Hang, Zhiqing Hong, Xinyue Feng, Guang Wang, Guang Yang, Feng Li, Xining Song, and Desheng Zhang

[KDD’24] Where have you been? A Study of Privacy Risk for Point-of-Interest Recommendation
Kunlin Cai, Jinghuai Zhang, Zhiqing Hong, Will Shand, Guang Wang, Desheng Zhang, Jianfeng Chi, and Yuan Tian

[KDD’24] MulSTE: A Multi-view Spatio-temporal Learning Framework with Heterogeneous Event Fusion for Demand-supply Prediction
Li Lin, Zhiqiang Lu, Shuai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Zhiqing Hong, Haotian Wang, and Shuai Wang

[VLDB’24] Complex-Path: Effective and Efficient Node Ranking with Paths in Billion-Scale Heterogeneous Graphs
Jinquan Hang, Zhiqing Hong, Xinyue Feng, Guang Wang, Dongjiang Cao, Jiayang Qiao, Haotian Wang, and Desheng Zhang

[CIKM’24] AdaTrans: Adaptive Transfer Time Prediction for Multi-modal Transportation Modes
Shuxin Zhong, Hua Wei, Wenjun Lyu, Guang Yang, Zhiqing Hong, Guang Wang, Yu Yang and Desheng Zhang

[CIKM’24] Adaptive Cross-platform Transportation Time Prediction for Logistics
Shuxin Zhong, Wenjun Lyu, Zhiqing Hong, Guang Yang, Weijian Zuo, Haotian Wang, Guang Wang, Yu Yang and Desheng Zhang

2023 and Before

[CIKM’23] Urban-scale POI Updating with Crowd Intelligence
Zhiqing Hong, Haotian Wang, Wenjun Lyu, Hai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Guang Wang, Tian He, and Desheng Zhang

[CIKM’23] AutoBuild: Automatic Community Building Labeling for Last-mile Delivery
Zhiqing Hong, Dongjiang Cao, Haotian Wang, Guang Wang, Tian He, and Desheng Zhang

[ICDE’23] REDE: Exploring Relay Transportation for Efficient Last-mile Delivery
Wenjun Lyu, Haotian Wang, Zhiqing Hong, Guang Wang, Yu Yang, Yunhuai Liu, and Desheng Zhang

[SIGSPATIAL’22] CoMiner: Nationwide Behavior-driven Unsupervised Spatial Coordinate Mining from Uncertain Delivery Events
Zhiqing Hong, Guang Wang, Wenjun Lyu, Baoshen Guo, Yi Ding, Haotian Wang, Shuai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, and Desheng Zhang

[SIGSPATIAL’22] FastAddr: Real-time Abnormal Address Detection via Contrastive Augmentation for Location-based Services
Zhiqing Hong, Heng Yang, Haotian Wang, Wenjun Lyu, Yu Yang, Guang Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Yang Wang, and Desheng Zhang

[CIKM’22] Towards Fair Workload Assessment via Homogeneous Order Grouping in Last-mile Delivery
Wenjun Lyv, Kexin Zhang, Baoshen Guo, Zhiqing Hong, Guang Yang, Guang Wang, Yu Yang, Yunhuai Liu, and Desheng Zhang

[Ubicomp’22] TransRisk: Mobility Privacy Risk Prediction based on Transferred Knowledge
Xiaoyang Xie, Zhiqing Hong, Zhou Qin, Zhihan Fang, Yuan Tian, and Desheng Zhang

[Ubicomp’22] WePos: Weak-supervised Indoor Positioning with Unlabeled WiFi for On-demand Delivery
Baoshen Guo, Weijian Zuo, Shuai Wang, Wenjun Lyu, Zhiqing Hong, Yi Ding, Tian He, and Desheng Zhang

Short Papers & Posters & Demos

[SIGSPATIAL’24] Improving Network Robustness via Cellular Infrastructure Sharing: An Empirical Study of Infrastructure Failure with All Cellular Operators in a City
Zhihan Fang, Guang Yang, Wenjun Lyu, Zhiqing Hong, Shuxin Zhong, Weijian Zuo, Yu Yang, Guang Wang, and Desheng Zhang

[Sensys’20] Generating location data with generative adversarial networks for sensing applications: PhD forum abstract
Zhiqing Hong