Yunke Zhang

Yunke Zhang, Ruolong Ma, Xin Zhang et al.

Socioeconomic exposure segregation -- the lack of daily interaction between income groups -- erodes social capital and entrenches inequality, yet the specific physical features that drive these behavioral restrictions remain poorly understood. Prior research has quantified where segregation occurs using mobility data, but has not identified how the built environment facilitates or inhibits these interactions. Here we introduce VISAGE, a large multi-modal model-enabled framework that perceives exposure segregation directly from open satellite and street-level imagery across 10,030 communities in 31 U.S. cities. Moving beyond black-box correlations, we operationalize cross-disciplinary sociological theory into an interpretable visual codebook to detect physical regulators of social mixing. We find that the built environment encodes a legible grammar of segregation: "defensible" architectural forms (e.g., fences, gated enclosures) and monofunctional zoning systematically predict higher social isolation, whereas mixed-use infrastructure fosters interaction, explaining substantial variance in mobility-derived segregation patterns (Pearson $r=0.770$). Crucially, we show that inclusionary housing policies manifest in distinct visual signatures associated with higher mixing, suggesting that policy interventions successfully alter the physical landscape to encourage diversity. Our findings offer a scalable pathway to decipher the social production of space, providing a mechanism-based lens to understand how the built environment shapes social behavior.

En Xu, Huandong Wang, Yunke Zhang et al.

Urban systems are typical examples of complex systems, where the integration of physics-based modeling with artificial intelligence (AI) presents a promising paradigm for enhancing predictive accuracy, interpretability, and decision-making. In this context, AI excels at capturing complex, nonlinear relationships, while physics-based models ensure consistency with real-world laws and provide interpretable insights. We provide a comprehensive review of physics-informed AI methods in urban applications. The proposed taxonomy categorizes existing approaches into three paradigms - Physics-Integrated AI, Physics-AI Hybrid Ensemble, and AI-Integrated Physics - and further details seven representative methods. This classification clarifies the varying degrees and directions of physics-AI integration, guiding the selection and development of appropriate methods based on application needs and data availability. We systematically examine their applications across eight key urban domains: energy, environment, economy, transportation, information, public services, emergency management, and the urban system as a whole. Our analysis highlights how these methodologies leverage physical laws and data-driven models to address urban challenges, enhancing system reliability, efficiency, and adaptability. By synthesizing existing methodologies and their urban applications, we identify critical gaps and outline future research directions, paving the way toward next-generation intelligent urban system modeling.

Daiye Miao, Yufang Liu, Jie Wang et al.

LoRA has become one of the most widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, numerous studies have shown that LoRA often introduces substantial parameter redundancy, which not only increases the number of trainable parameters but also hinders the effectiveness of fine-tuning. Since identifying redundant parameters in LoRA is inherently difficult, how to eliminate them efficiently and accurately remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose TASO, a redundancy reduction method that leverages importance information from the pretrained model's weights to mitigate LoRA redundancy. Specifically, we estimate parameter importance on downstream tasks and identify task-specific core regions based on the distribution of importance scores. The location information of these core regions is then used to determine the sparse structure of LoRA modules, enabling redundancy removal before fine-tuning. Our approach significantly reduces the number of trainable parameters required for task adaptation, while providing a novel task-aligned perspective for LoRA redundancy reduction. Experimental results demonstrate that, with a parameter budget comparable to LoRA with rank $r = 1$, TASO consistently outperforms standard LoRA across multiple tasks, achieving strong fine-tuning performance while effectively eliminating redundant parameters.