Journal Articles

• H.-J. Ye, D.-C. Zhan, N. Li, Y. Jiang. Learning multiple local metrics: Global consideration helps. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE T-PAMI). DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2901675. 2019
• C. Chen, D. Zhang, N. Li, and Z.-H. Zhou. B-Planner: Planning bidirectional night bus routes using large-scale taxi GPS traces. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems(IEEE T-ITS), 2014, 15(4): 1451-1465.
• N. Li, I.W. Tsang, and Z.-H. Zhou. Efficient optimization of performance measures by classifier adaptation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE T-PAMI), 2013, 35(6): 1370-1382.
• C. Chen, D. Zhang, P.S. Castro, N. Li, L. Sun, S. Li, Z. Wang. iBOAT: Isolation-based on-line anomalous trajectory detection. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE T-ITS) , 2012,14(2): 806-818.

Conference Papers

• Y. Zhao, Y.-H. Zhou, M. Ou, H. Xu, N. Li . "Maximizing Cumulative User Engagement in Sequential Recommendation: An Online Optimization Perspective" . In: Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'20), Virtual Events, 2020.
• Z. Tan, X. Nie, Q. Qian, N. Li , H. Li. Learning to rank proposals for object detection. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'19), pp. 8273-8281, Seoul, Korea, 2019.
• P. Hu, R. Du, N. Li, R. Jin. Hybrid item-item recommendation via semi-parametric embedding. In: Proceeding of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'19), Macao, China, 2019.
• Y. Peng, M. Xie, J. Liu, X. Meng, N. Li, C. Yang, T. Yao, R. Jin. A practical semi-parametric contextual bandits. In: Proceeding of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(IJCAI'19), Macao, China, 2019.
• M. Ou, N. Li, C. Yang, S. Zhu, R. Jin. Semi-parametric sampling for stochastic bandits with many arms. In: Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'19), Honolulu, HI, 2019.
• Y.-H. Zhou, C. Liang, N. Li, C. Yang, S. Zhu, R. Jin. Robust online matching with user arrival distribution drift. In: Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'19), Honolulu, HI, 2019.
• M. Ou, N. Li, S. Zhu, R. Jin. Multinomial logit bandits with linear utility function. In: Proceeding of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'18), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018.
• A. Zhang, N. Li, J. Pu, J. Wang, J. Yan, H. Zha. Tau-FPL: Tolerance-constrained learning in linear time. In: Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, LA.
• L.-P. Liu, T.G. Dietterich, N. Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou. Transductive optimization of top-k precision. In: Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'16), New York, NY, 2016.
• N. Li, Y. Jiang, Z.-H. Zhou. Multi-label selective ensemble. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS'15), Gunzburg, Germany, 2015.
• N. Li, R. Jin, and Z.-H. Zhou. Top rank optimization in linear time. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27 (NIPS'14) , Montreal, Canada.
• N. Li, and Z.-H. Zhou. Selective ensemble of classifier chains. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS'13), Nanjing, China, 2013.
• C. Chen, D. Zhang, Z.-H. Zhou, N. Li, T. Atmaca, and S. Li. B-Planner: Night bus route planning using large-scale taxi GPS traces. In: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'13), San Diego, CA, 2013.
• N. Li, Y. Yu, and Z.-H. Zhou. Diversity regularized ensemble pruning. In: Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'12), Bristol, UK, 2012.
• D. Zhang, N. Li, Z.-H. Zhou, C. Chen, L. Sun, and S. Li. iBAT: Detecting anomalous taxi trajectories from GPS traces. In: Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'11), Beijing, China, 2011.
• C. Chen, D. Zhang, P.S. Castro, N. Li, L. Sun, and S. Li. Real-time detection of anomalous taxi trajectories from GPS traces. In: Proceedings of the 8th Annual International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous System (MobiQuitous'11), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011. (Best Paper Runner-Up Award)
• Z.-H. Zhou and N. Li. Multi-information ensemble diversity. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS'10), Cairo, Egypt, 2010.
• N. Li, Y. Yu, and Z.-H. Zhou. Semi-naive exploitation of one-dependence estimators. In: Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'09), Miami, FL, 2009.
• N. Li and Z.-H. Zhou. Selective ensemble under regularization framework. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS'09), Reykjavik, Iceland, 2009.