Wenrui Xu (徐文睿)

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Como Lake photographed by Wenrui — cover image: Como Lake 📷 Wenrui

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Publications

2026

Scalable Quantification of 3D Material Albedo Reveals Consistent Cooling Mechanisms and Unequal Mitigation Potential

Xinyue Gu, Yingjie Liu*, Wenrui Xu, Xiaojiang Li, Xidong Chen, Shanlong Lu, Waishan Qiu*

Communications Earth & Environment, 2026. In Press.
2026

Campus Squares Are Significantly Associated with Students' Emotions: A Multimodal Field Experiment Approach

Wenrui Xu, Yingqi Lan, Tianxin Yang, Jinxi Chen*, Junheng Chen, Jing Qian, Wentao Han, Annabel Edle Von Schickh

Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2026. In Press.
2025

Defining and Evaluating Visual Language Models' Basic Spatial Abilities: A Perspective from Psychometrics

Wenrui Xu†, Dalin Lyu†, Weihang Wang†, Jie Feng, Chen Gao, Yong Li*

Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Main, 2025.

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2025

Spatiotemporal Impacts of Purpose-Specific Human Mobility on Air Pollution: Evidence from Taxi Trajectories and Interpretable Machine Learning

Wenrui Xu, Xinyue Gu*

Sustainable Cities and Society, 2025.

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2025

City Centers Really Lived Up to the Hype? Evidence from Human Perceptions of Over 4000 Communities in China

Xinyue Gu, Wenrui Xu, Chuanjia Gong, Xintao Liu*

Cities, 2025.

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2024

Recent Surge in Public Interest in Transportation: Sentiment Analysis of Baidu Apollo Go Using Weibo Data

Shiqi Wang, Zhouye Zhao, Yuhang Xie, Mingchuan Ma, Zirui Chen, Zeyu Wang, Bohao Su, Wenrui Xu, Tianyi Li

arXiv Preprint, 2024.

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Working Papers

Lyu, D.†, Li, C.†, Li, J., Xu, W., Guan, X., Wang, Y., Huo, Y., & Li, T.* (2025-). Urban Cardiac Emergency Survival Inequities from Seen Infrastructure and Unseen Operations. Nature Cities (1st Review).
Xu, W., Liang, L.* (2025-). Compound Heatwave-Air Pollution Hazards Across the United States. Manuscript in Preparation.
Xu, W., Zhang, X., Sun, J., Liang, L.* (2026-). Scaling Property-Level Wildfire Risk Assessment in California with Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Prediction-Powered Inference. Manuscript in Preparation.
Xu, W., Agostini, G., Pierson, E.*, Blumenstock, J., Liang, L. (2026-). SAEarth: Can Sparse AutoEncoders Expose Interpretable Features in Geospatial Foundation Models? Manuscript in Preparation.
Lyu, D.†, Xu, W.†, Wang, W., Gao, C., Zhuang, W.*, Li, Y.* (2025-). Aesthetic Perception of Large Language Models. Manuscript in Preparation.