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Wenrui Xu 徐文睿(Erik🦁)

Ph.D. Student
UC Berkeley
wenruixu(at)outlook(dot)com


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Publications

  1. 2025 ACL Main
    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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  2. 2025 SCS
    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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  3. 2025 Cities
    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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  4. 2024 Preprint
    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

  1. Gu, X., Liu, Y*., Xu, W., Qiu, W., Li, X., Chen, X., Lu, S., Qiu, W.* (2025-). Scalable quantification of 3D material albedo reveals consistent cooling mechanisms and unequal mitigation potential. Communications Earth & Environment (1st Revision).
  2. Xu, W., Lan, Y., Yang, T., Chen, J.*, Chen, J., Qian, J., Han, W., Edle von Schickh, A. (2025-). Campus squares are significantly associated with students' emotions: A multimodal field experiment approach. Frontiers of Architectural Research (1st Revision).
  3. Xu, W., Liang, L.* (2025-). Compound heatwave-air pollution hazards across the United States. Manuscript in Preparation.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Lyu, D.†, Xu, W.†, Wang, W., Gao, C., Zhuang, W.*, Li, Y.* (2025-). Aesthetic perception of large language models. Manuscript in Preparation.
  7. Lyu, D., Li, J., Xu, W., Li, T.* (2025-). Spatial inequities in emergency rescue networks in China. Manuscript in Preparation.

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