Publications

2025

2025

1. Preprint

   

   VL-SAFE: Vision-Language Guided Safety-Aware Reinforcement Learning with World Models for Autonomous Driving

   Yansong Qu, Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16377, 2025

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   @article{qu2025vlsafe,
     title = {VL-SAFE: Vision-Language Guided Safety-Aware Reinforcement Learning with World Models for Autonomous Driving},
     author = {Qu, Yansong and Huang, Zilin and Sheng, Zihao and Chen, Jiancong and Sikai, Chen and Samuel, Labi},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16377},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. Preprint

   

   Sky-Drive: A Distributed Multi-Agent Simulation Platform for Socially-Aware and Human-AI Collaborative Future Transportation

   Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Zhengyang Wan, and 8 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.18010, 2025

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   @article{huang2025sky,
     title = {Sky-Drive: A Distributed Multi-Agent Simulation Platform for Socially-Aware and Human-AI Collaborative Future Transportation},
     author = {Huang, Zilin and Sheng, Zihao and Wan, Zhengyang and Qu, Yansong and Luo, Yuhao and Wang, Boyue and Li, Pei and Chen, Yen-Jung and Chen, Jiancong and Long, Keke and others},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.18010},
     year = {2025},
   }

3. CVPR Workshop

   

   Talk2Traffic: Interactive and Editable Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Model

   Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, Yansong Qu, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2025

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   @article{sheng2025Talk2Traffic,
     title = {Talk2Traffic: Interactive and Editable Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Model},
     author = {Sheng, Zihao and Huang, Zilin and Qu, Yansong and Leng, Yue and Chen<sup></sup>, Sikai},
     journal = {In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
     year = {2025},
     github = {https://github.com/zihaosheng/Talk2Traffic},
   }

4. Preprint

   

   CurricuVLM: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving via Personalized Safety-Critical Curriculum Learning with Vision-Language Models

   Zihao Sheng⁺, Zilin Huang⁺, Yansong Qu, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15119, 2025

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   @article{sheng2025curricuvlm,
     title = {CurricuVLM: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving via Personalized Safety-Critical Curriculum Learning with Vision-Language Models},
     author = {Sheng<sup>+</sup>, Zihao and Huang<sup>+</sup>, Zilin and Qu, Yansong and Leng, Yue and Bhavanam, Sruthi and Chen<sup></sup>, Sikai},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15119},
     year = {2025},
     github = {https://github.com/zihaosheng/CurricuVLM},
   }

5. COMMTR

   

   MetaSSC: Enhancing 3D Semantic Scene Completion for Autonomous Driving through Meta-Learning and Long-sequence Modeling

   Yansong Qu, Zixuan Xu, Zilin Huang, and 3 more authors

   Communications in Transportation Research, 2025

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   @article{qu2025metassc,
     title = {MetaSSC: Enhancing 3D Semantic Scene Completion for Autonomous Driving through Meta-Learning and Long-sequence Modeling},
     author = {Qu, Yansong and Xu, Zixuan and Huang, Zilin and Sheng, Zihao and Chen, Tiantian and Chen<sup></sup>, Sikai},
     journal = {Communications in Transportation Research},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

2024

1. Preprint

   

   VLM-RL: A Unified Vision Language Models and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Safe Autonomous Driving

   Zilin Huang⁺, Zihao Sheng⁺, Yansong Qu⁺, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15544, 2024

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   @article{huang2024vlmrl,
     title = {VLM-RL: A Unified Vision Language Models and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Safe Autonomous Driving},
     author = {Huang<sup>+</sup>, Zilin and Sheng<sup>+</sup>, Zihao and Qu<sup>+</sup>, Yansong and You, Junwei and Chen<sup></sup>, Sikai},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15544},
     year = {2024},
     github = {https://github.com/zihaosheng/VLM-RL},
   }

2. INS

   

   Towards real-world traffic prediction and data imputation: A multi-task pretraining and fine-tuning approach

   Yansong Qu, Zhenlong Li, Xiaohua Zhao, and 1 more author

   Information Sciences, 2024

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   @article{qu2024towards,
     title = {Towards real-world traffic prediction and data imputation: A multi-task pretraining and fine-tuning approach},
     author = {Qu, Yansong and Li, Zhenlong and Zhao, Xiaohua and Ou, Jushang},
     journal = {Information Sciences},
     volume = {657},
     pages = {119972},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
   }

2023

2023

1. KBS

   

   ST-A-PGCL: Spatiotemporal adaptive periodical graph contrastive learning for traffic prediction under real scenarios

   Yansong Qu, Jian Rong, Zhenlong Li, and 1 more author

   Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023

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   @article{qu2023st,
     title = {ST-A-PGCL: Spatiotemporal adaptive periodical graph contrastive learning for traffic prediction under real scenarios},
     author = {Qu, Yansong and Rong, Jian and Li, Zhenlong and Chen, Kaiqun},
     journal = {Knowledge-Based Systems},
     volume = {272},
     pages = {110591},
     year = {2023},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
   }

2022

2022

1. JAT

   

   Crash/Near-Crash Analysis of Naturalistic Driving Data Using Association Rule Mining

   Yansong Qu, Zhenlong Li, Qin Liu, and 2 more authors

   Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2022

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   @article{qu2022crash,
     title = {Crash/Near-Crash Analysis of Naturalistic Driving Data Using Association Rule Mining},
     author = {Qu, Yansong and Li, Zhenlong and Liu, Qin and Pan, Mengniu and Zhang, Zihao},
     journal = {Journal of Advanced Transportation},
     volume = {2022},
     number = {1},
     pages = {6562649},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
   }