Summary of Causalmob: Causal Human Mobility Prediction with Llms-derived Human Intentions Toward Public Events, by Xiaojie Yang and Hangli Ge and Jiawei Wang and Zipei Fan and Renhe Jiang and Ryosuke Shibasaki and Noboru Koshizuka
CausalMob: Causal Human Mobility Prediction with LLMs-derived Human Intentions toward Public Events
by Xiaojie Yang, Hangli Ge, Jiawei Wang, Zipei Fan, Renhe Jiang, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Noboru Koshizuka
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A new machine learning model, CausalMob, is designed to predict large-scale human mobility patterns by considering the causal effects of public events. The model uses large language models (LLMs) to extract human intentions from news articles and transform them into features that serve as causal treatments. These features are then used in conjunction with confounders learned from multiple data sources to estimate the causal effects of public events on human mobility patterns. Experimental results show that CausalMob outperforms state-of-the-art models in predicting human mobility. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary CausalMob is a new machine learning model that helps predict where people will move around based on past events like natural disasters or celebrations. The problem is that regular patterns are disrupted by these one-time events, making it hard to make accurate predictions. The new model uses special computer language models to analyze news articles and figure out what’s happening during these events. It then combines this information with other data about the same areas to make a better prediction of where people will move in the future. |
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