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From Automation to Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration in AI-Driven Building Energy Modeling

    Fund Project: This research work is financially sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 52308105) and the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building and Urban Science (grant number 2024ZB15).
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    Zhu H. and He Y. (2026). From Automation to Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration in AI-Driven Building Energy Modeling. Energy Use 2:100071. https://doi.org/10.59717/ipj.energy-use.2026.100071
    Zhu H. and He Y. (2026). From Automation to Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration in AI-Driven Building Energy Modeling. Energy Use 2:100071. https://doi.org/10.59717/ipj.energy-use.2026.100071

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