publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order.

[Published Papers] [Preprints]

published papers

2025

  1. TITS
    TrafficMCTS: A Closed-Loop Traffic Flow Generation Framework with Group-Based Monte Carlo Tree Search
    Ze Fu, Licheng Wen, Pinlong Cai# , Daocheng Fu, Song Mao, and Botian Shi
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2025

2024

  1. TIV
    Koma: Knowledge-driven multi-agent framework for autonomous driving with large language models
    Kemou Jiang, Xuan Cai, Zhiyong Cui, Aoyong Li, Yilong Ren, Haiyang Yu, Hao Yang, Daocheng Fu, Licheng Wen, and Pinlong Cai#
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles 2024
  2. STTE
    Road Network Traffic Analysis Utilizing Spatiotemporal Information Aggregation
    Gang Wang, Pinlong Cai# , Guixian Qu, Rongjian Dai, Junjie Zhang, and Botian Shi
    International Conference on SmartRail, Traffic and Transportation Engineering 2024
  3. WACV
    Drive like a human: Rethinking autonomous driving with large language models
    Daocheng Fu, Xin Li, Licheng Wen, Min Dou, Pinlong Cai , Botian Shi, and Yu Qiao
    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2024
  4. ICLR
    On the Road with GPT-4V (ision): Explorations of Utilizing Visual-Language Model as Autonomous Driving Agent
    Licheng Wen, Xuemeng Yang, Daocheng Fu, Xiaofeng Wang, Pinlong Cai , Xin Li, MA Tao, Yingxuan Li, XU Linran, Dengke Shang, and others
    ICLR 2024 Workshop on Large Language Model (LLM) Agents 2024
  5. AAP
    How drivers perform under different scenarios: ability-related driving style extraction for large-scale dataset
    Yingbang Zang, Licheng Wen, Pinlong Cai# , Daocheng Fu, Song Mao, Botian Shi, Yikang Li, and Guangquan Lu
    Accident Analysis & Prevention 2024
  6. TP
    TrafficGPT: Viewing, processing and interacting with traffic foundation models
    Siyao Zhang, Daocheng Fu, Wenzhe Liang, Zhao Zhang, Bin Yu, Pinlong Cai , and Baozhen Yao
    Transport Policy 2024
  7. ITSM
    Human-Like Decision Making at Unsignalized Intersections Using Social Value Orientation
    Yan Tong, Licheng Wen, Pinlong Cai# , Daocheng Fu, Song Mao, Botian Shi, and Yikang Li
    IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine 2024
  8. GEIT
    Spatiotemporal-restricted A∗ algorithm as a support for lane-free traffic at intersections with mixed flows
    Haifei Chi, Pinlong Cai# , Daocheng Fu, Junda Zhai, Yadan Zeng, and Botian Shi
    Green Energy and Intelligent Transportation 2024

2023

  1. JTEA
    Trajectory guidance for connected human-driving vehicles through the interactions between drivers and roadside units
    Pinlong Cai , and Guangquan Lu
    Journal of transportation engineering, Part A: Systems 2023
  2. ESWA
    A computationally efficient and refined signal control method for isolated intersections in a connected vehicle environment
    Rongjian Dai, Pinlong Cai , Xu Wang, and Ruhua Zhang
    Expert Systems with Applications 2023
  3. ITSC
    LimSim: A long-term interactive multi-scenario traffic simulator
    Licheng Wenl, Daocheng Fu, Song Mao, Pinlong Cai# , Min Dou, Yikang Li, and Yu Qiao
    IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) 2023
  4. IEEE
    Robust Car-Following Control of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: A Stochastic Model Predictive Control Approach
    Peiyu Zhang, Jianshan Zhou, Daxin Tian, Xuting Duan, Kaige Qu, Dezong Zhao, Zhengguo Sheng, Pinlong Cai , and Victor CM Leung
    Int’l ACM Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications 2023
  5. ICUS
    Delay-Optimal Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Computing with IRS-Enhanced Secure Wireless Communications
    Xu Han, Jianshan Zhou, Daxin Tian, Xuting Duan, Kaige Qu, Pinlong Cai , Dezong Zhao, and Zhengguo Sheng
    IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS) 2023
  6. ICUS
    Nonlinear System Identification for Quadrotors with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
    Mingqian Wang, Jianshan Zhou, Xuting Duan, Dezong Zhao, Pinlong Cai , Junda Zhai, Xinyu Liu, and Chenghao Ren
    2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS) 2023
  7. JICV
    Hybrid cooperative intersection management for connected automated vehicles and pedestrians
    Pinlong Cai , Jia He, and Yikang Li
    Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles 2023
  8. Physica A
    Incremental path planning: Reservation system in V2X environment
    Daocheng Fu, Pinlong Cai# , Yilun Lin, Song Mao, Licheng Wen, and Yikang Li
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2023
  9. AAMAS
    Bringing Diversity to Autonomous Vehicles: An Interpretable Multi-vehicle Decision-making and Planning Framework
    Licheng Wen, Pinlong Cai# , Daocheng Fu, Song Mao, and Yikang Li
    International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2023

2022

  1. ITSC
    General driving behavior model based on the desired safety margin for vehicle flow simulation
    Pinlong Cai , Junjie Zhang, Xuan Zhao, and Yikang Li
    International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) 2022

2020

  1. TRC
    Cooperative autonomous traffic organization method for connected automated vehicles in multi-intersection road networks
    Yunpeng Wang, Pinlong Cai , and Guangquan Lu
    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 2020

2019

  1. CICTP
    Intersection self-organization control for connected autonomous vehicles based on traffic strategy learning algorithm
    Pinlong Cai , Yunpeng Wang, and Guangquan Lu
    2019

2018

  1. TITS
    Tunable and transferable RBF model for short-term traffic forecasting
    Pinlong Cai , Yunpeng Wang, and Guangquan Lu
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2018

2017

  1. CCDC
    A modified PCA-based approach for process monitoring
    Jingxin Zhang, Hao Chen, and Pinlong Cai#
    Chinese Control And Decision Conference 2017
  2. DDCLS
    An adaptive multi-kernel RBF model using state matching
    Pinlong Cai , Hao Chen, and Jingxin Zhang
    Data Driven Control and Learning Systems 2017

2016

  1. TRC
    A spatiotemporal correlative k-nearest neighbor model for short-term traffic multistep forecasting
    Pinlong Cai , Yunpeng Wang, Guangquan Lu, Peng Chen, Chuan Ding, and Jianping Sun
    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 2016

2015

  1. CICTP
    An improved k-nearest neighbor model for road speed forecast based on spatiotemporal correlation
    Pinlong Cai , Yunpeng Wang, Guangquan Lu, and Peng Chen
    2015

Preprints

2025

  1. arXiv
    LeanRAG: Knowledge-Graph-Based Generation with Semantic Aggregation and Hierarchical Retrieval
    Yaoze Zhang, Rong Wu, Pinlong Cai# , Xiaoman Wang, Guohang Yan, Song Mao, Ding Wang, and Botian Shi
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.10391 2025
  2. arXiv
    HetaRAG: Hybrid Deep Retrieval-Augmented Generation across Heterogeneous Data Stores
    Guohang Yan, Yue Zhang, Pinlong Cai# , Ding Wang, Song Mao, Hongwei Zhang, Yaoze Zhang, Hairong Zhang, Xinyu Cai, and Botian Shi
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.21336 2025
  3. arXiv
    Learning on the job: An experience-driven self-evolving agent for long-horizon tasks
    Cheng Yang, Xuemeng Yang, Licheng Wen, Daocheng Fu, Jianbiao Mei, Rong Wu, Pinlong Cai , Yufan Shen, Nianchen Deng, Botian Shi, and others
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08002 2025
  4. arXiv
    Evolver: Self-evolving LLM agents through an experience-driven lifecycle
    Rong Wu, Xiaoman Wang, Jianbiao Mei, Pinlong Cai , Daocheng Fu, Cheng Yang, Licheng Wen, Xuemeng Yang, Yufan Shen, Yuxin Wang, and others
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.16079 2025

2024

  1. arXiv
    OASim: an Open and Adaptive Simulator based on Neural Rendering for Autonomous Driving
    Guohang Yan, Jiahao Pi, Jianfei Guo, Zhaotong Luo, Min Dou, Nianchen Deng, Qiusheng Huang, Daocheng Fu, Licheng Wen, Pinlong Cai , and others
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03830 2024
  2. arXiv
    LimSim++: A Closed-Loop Platform for Deploying Multimodal LLMs in Autonomous Driving
    Daocheng Fu, Wenjie Lei, Licheng Wen, Pinlong Cai# , Song Mao, Min Dou, Botian Shi, and Yu Qiao
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.01246 2024

2023

  1. arXiv
    AccidentGPT: Accident analysis and prevention from v2x environmental perception with multi-modal large model
    Lening Wang, Han Jiang, Pinlong Cai , Daocheng Fu, Tianqi Wang, Zhiyong Cui, Yilong Ren, Haiyang Yu, Xuesong Wang, and Yinhai Wang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.13156 2023
  2. arXiv
    Towards knowledge-driven autonomous driving
    Xin Li, Yeqi Bai, Pinlong Cai# , Licheng Wen, Daocheng Fu, Bo Zhang, Xuemeng Yang, Xinyu Cai, Tao Ma, Jianfei Guo, and others
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.04316 2023
  3. arXiv
    Dilu: A knowledge-driven approach to autonomous driving with large language models
    Licheng Wen, Daocheng Fu, Xin Li, Xinyu Cai, Tao Ma, Pinlong Cai , Min Dou, Botian Shi, Liang He, and Yu Qiao
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16292 2023