Yansong Ning
Yansong is a second-year M.Phil. student in HKUST(GZ) AI Thrust, supervised by Prof. Hao Liu and Prof. Hui Xiong. Prior to that, he obtained his Bachelor's degree in the School of Data Science at TYUT, supervised by Prof. Li Wang.
His recent research focuses on large language models (LLMs). Specifically, his research goal is to understand and improve the "reasoning capability" of LLMs, guaranteeing their practical applicability in real-world scenarios, e.g., smart city.
[Feb 2025] Thrilled to release DiMA, an LLM-powered ride-hailing assistant deployed on DiDi Chuxing. Thanks for the guidance and support from L Lab!!
[Sep 2024] UrbanKGent is accepted to NeurIPS 2024!
[Dec 2023] Pleasure to join DiDi Chuxing as a research intern, collaborating with the L Lab on the LLM pre-training, post-training and LLM-based ride-hailing assistant deployment.
[Sep 2023] UUKG is accepted to NeurIPS 2023!
[Aug 2022] Pleasure to start the summer internship at the Guangzhou HKUST FYTRI, collaborating with Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group on the projected related to urban knowledge graph.
Research Projects
UrbanKGent: A Unified Large Language Model Agent Framework for Urban Knowledge Graph Construction
NeurIPS 2024
Yansong Ning, Hao Liu
[NeurIPS 2024] Yansong Ning, Hao Liu. UrbanKGent: A Unified Large Language Model Agent Framework for Urban Knowledge Graph Construction. [Paper] [Code] [Slides] [Video]
UUKG: Unified Urban Knowledge Graph Dataset for Urban Spatiotemporal Prediction
NeurIPS 2023
Yansong Ning, Hao Liu, Hao Wang, Zhenyu Zeng, Hui Xiong
[NeurIPS 2023] Yansong Ning, Hao Liu, Hao Wang, Zhenyu Zeng, Hui Xiong. UUKG: Unified Urban Knowledge Graph Dataset for Urban Spatiotemporal Prediction. [Paper] [Code] [Slides] [Video]
DiMA: An LLM-Powered Ride-Hailing Assistant at DiDi
Preprint
Yansong Ning, Shuowei Cai, Wei Li, Jun Fang, Naiqiang Tan, Hua Chai, Hao Liu
[Preprint] Yansong Ning, Shuowei Cai, Wei Li, Jun Fang, Naiqiang Tan, Hua Chai, Hao Liu. DiMA: An LLM-Powered Ride-Hailing Assistant at DiDi. [Paper] Full Deployment on DiDi Chuxing
[Preprint] Fan Liu, Siqi Lai, Yansong Ning, Hao Liu. Bkd-FedGNN: A Benchmark for Classification Backdoor Attacks on Federated Graph Neural Network. [Paper] [Code]
Education
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Sep 2023 - Present, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Master of Philosophy in Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor: Prof. Hao Liu & Prof. Hui Xiong -
Sep 2019 - Sep 2023, Taiyuan University of Technology
Bachelor of Data Science and Technology of Big Data
Supervisor: Prof. Li Wang
Work Experience
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Dec 2023 - Present, Research Intern, L Lab, DiDi Chuxing Co. Ltd. -
Jun 2022 - Aug 2023, Research Intern, DLRC, Guangzhou HKUST Fok Ying Tung Research Institute
Services
Reviewer: NeurIPS'2024, ICLR'2025, ICML'2025.
Awards
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2023 (Top 0.2%, 10 out of 7762)
- Finalist Winner of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), 2022 (Top 2%)
- Second Prize in the Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), 2020 (Top 2%)