VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Lianhua Ji
dblp:415/4064
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0008-3137-3877ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Smart cities and intelligent transportation · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
conditional generative model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Marionette: Fine-Grained Conditional Generative Modeling of Spatiotemporal Human Trajectory Data Beyond Imitation · KDD (2) 2025 |
Smart cities and intelligent transportation › urban informatics
human mobility modeling |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Marionette: Fine-Grained Conditional Generative Modeling of Spatiotemporal Human Trajectory Data Beyond Imitation · KDD (2) 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
temporal point process · 1.7diffusion model · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Marionette: Fine-Grained Conditional Generative Modeling of Spatiotemporal Human Trajectory Data Beyond ImitationabstractSynthetic human trajectory data becoming increasingly prominent in various applications, including urban planning, traffic control, and crowd monitoring. Recent neural generative models for human trajectory data mostly follow an unconditional generative paradigm that relies on a pure data-driven imitative learning scheme, without considering the rich context of human mobility (e.g., social events or weather conditions) which may significantly impact the underlying human mobility patterns. Against this background, we propose Marionette, a Manipulatable generative model for human trajectory data with fine-grained conditions. Specifically, Marionette integrates both global and partial mobility-related contexts and extracts both sequence-level and event-level conditions. Afterward, it designs fine-grained and cascading conditioning mechanisms for modeling the temporal and spatial dynamics based on diffusion-alike Temporal Point Processes (TPPs) and discrete diffusion models, respectively, offering fine-grained controllable generative modeling of human trajectory data with both global and partial mobility-related contexts. We conduct a thorough evaluation on two real-world human trajectory datasets against a sizeable collection of baselines. Results show that our Marionette consistently outperforms the best baselines by 13.96-54.13% on statistical and distributional similarity metrics and by 9.36-40.63% in task-based data utility evaluation. Ablation studies verify our key design choices. Case studies also demonstrate the manipulability of Marionette in generating data in previously unseen scenarios. Bangchao Deng, Lianhua Ji, Chunhua Chen 0005, Xin Jing 0003, Bingqing Qu, Dingqi Yang |
KDD (2) | 3 |