Weilin Ruan (阮炜霖)

Weilin Ruan (阮炜霖)

MPhil Student @ HKUST(GZ)

Bachelor of Engineering @ Jinan University

I am a second-year MPhil student in Data Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), supervised by Prof. Yuxuan Liang.

My research interests include Time Series Forecasting, Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, Multimodal Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, and Embodied AI.

Milestones

Key progress in research and academic activities.

  • Publications 14+
  • Citations 100+
  • Awards 20+
  • Blog Fans 3600+

Interests

Beyond research, I enjoy these activities in daily life.

Video Games Badminton Hiking Movies Cars Travel Photography Music Indie Game Dev Pets Chess Board Games Web Novels
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Education

  • HKUST(GZ) Logo
    HKUST(GZ) - Information Hub - Data Science and Analysis
    Sep 2024 - June 2026
  • Jinan University Logo
    Jinan University - Computer Science Department - Network Engineering
    Sep 2020 - June 2024

Latest News

  • New Preprint - MAS4TS: Visual Reasoning over Time Series via Multi-Agent System is available on arXiv (under review).
    Feb 2026
  • Citation Milestone - Google Scholar citations reached 100+.
    Mar 2026
  • Paper Acceptance - One paper accepted to ICLR Workshop HCAIR 2026.
    Mar 2026
  • Paper Acceptance - Two papers accepted to AAAI 2026.
    Nov 2025
  • Reviewer Appointment - Appointed as a reviewer for ICLR 2026 conference.
    Sep 2025
  • New Position - Joined Knowin AI Inc. as an Algorithm Researcher.
    Sep 2025
  • Program Committee - Invited to serve as a Program Committee member for AAAI 2026.
    July 2025
  • Paper Acceptance - Paper accepted to ICCV 2025 Workshop.
    July 2025
  • Paper Acceptance - Paper on Traffic Flow Forecasting accepted to IEEE TITS Journal.
    Aug 2025
  • Paper Acceptance - Paper on Multimodal Building Electricity Loads Forecasting accepted to ACM MM 2025.
    July 2025
  • Paper Acceptance - Paper on Urban Heat Island Effect Forecasting accepted to KDD 2025.
    May 2025
  • Paper Acceptance - Paper on Spatio-Temporal Forecasting accepted to ECML-PKDD 2025.
    May 2025
  • Paper Acceptance - Paper on Multimodal Time Series Forecasting accepted to ICML 2025.
    May 2025
  • Reviewer Appointment - Appointed as a reviewer for IJCNN and ICASSP conferences.
    Dec 2024
  • Program Committee - Invited to serve as a Program Committee member for WebST 2025.
    Jan 2025
  • Outstanding Graduate - Received the undergraduate certificate from Jinan University as an outstanding graduate of the department of Information Science and Technology.
    June 2024
  • Research Internship - Joined the CityMind team as an intern led by Prof. Yuxuan Liang.
    Aug 2023
  • RBCC Achievement - Participated in the RBCC offline held in HKUST(GZ) and achieved outstanding camper.
    July 2023

Pinned Publications

Visual Reasoning over Time Series via Multi-Agent System Pinned Under Review

Weilin Ruan, Yuxuan Liang

Under Review. 2026

We propose MAS4TS, a tool-driven multi-agent framework for general time-series tasks under an Analyzer-Reasoner-Executor paradigm. It integrates visual reasoning over time-series plots, latent trajectory reconstruction, and gated inter-agent communication to improve cross-task generalization and inference efficiency.

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OccamVTS: Distilling Vision Models to 1% Parameters for Time Series Forecasting
OccamVTS: Distilling Vision Models to 1% Parameters for Time Series Forecasting Pinned

Sisuo Lyu, Siru Zhong, Weilin Ruan, Qingxiang Liu, Qingsong Wen, Hui Xiong, Yuxuan Liang

AAAI. 2026

We propose OccamVTS, a novel framework that distills large vision models to only 1% of their original parameters for efficient time series forecasting, demonstrating that extreme parameter reduction can be achieved while maintaining strong predictive performance through innovative distillation techniques.

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Retrieval Augmented Spatio-Temporal Framework for Traffic Prediction
Retrieval Augmented Spatio-Temporal Framework for Traffic Prediction Pinned

Weilin Ruan, Xilin Dang, Ziyu Zhou, Sisuo Lyu, Yuxuan Liang

AAAI. 2026

We propose RAST, a universal framework that integrates retrieval-augmented mechanisms with spatio-temporal modeling to address limited contextual capacity and low predictability in traffic prediction. Our framework consists of three key designs: Decoupled Encoder and Query Generator, Spatio-temporal Retrieval Store and Retrievers, and Universal Backbone Predictor that flexibly accommodates pre-trained STGNNs or simple MLP predictors.

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Cross Space and Time: A Spatio-Temporal Unitized Model for Traffic Flow Forecasting
Cross Space and Time: A Spatio-Temporal Unitized Model for Traffic Flow Forecasting Pinned

Weilin Ruan, Wenzhuo Wang, Siru Zhong, Wei Chen, Li Liu, Yuxuan Liang

TITS. 2025

This paper proposes a novel spatio-temporal unitized model for traffic flow forecasting that effectively captures complex dependencies across both space and time dimensions, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmark datasets.

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Towards Multi-Scenario Forecasting of Building Electricity Loads with Multimodal Data
Towards Multi-Scenario Forecasting of Building Electricity Loads with Multimodal Data Pinned

Yongzheng Liu, Siru Zhong, Gefeng Luo, Weilin Ruan, Yuxuan Liang

ACM MM. 2025

We propose MMLoad, a novel diffusion-based multimodal framework for multi-scenario building load forecasting with three innovations: Multimodal Data Enhancement Pipeline, Cross-modal Relation Encoder, and Scenario-Conditioned Diffusion Generator with uncertainty quantification, establishing a new paradigm for multimodal learning in smart energy systems.

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Selected Awards

  • Outstanding Graduates - Jinan University
    Fall 2024
  • Golden Arowana Scholarship - Jinan University
    Fall 2023
  • Bronze Medal - ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest
    Fall 2022
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