Summary of Meta-learning For Neural Network-based Temporal Point Processes, by Yoshiaki Takimoto et al.
Meta-Learning for Neural Network-based Temporal Point Processes
by Yoshiaki Takimoto, Yusuke Tanaka, Tomoharu Iwata, Maya Okawa, Hideaki Kim, Hiroyuki Toda, Takeshi Kurashima
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel meta-learning approach for predicting future events related to human activities, such as taxi trip records or crime occurrence. The authors address two key challenges in point process models: requiring long sequences of events for training and struggling with long-term predictions. Their method embeds short sequences into hidden representations using recurrent neural networks and then uses monotonic neural networks (MNNs) to model the intensity of the point process, taking temporal periodic patterns into account. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach on multiple real-world datasets, achieving higher prediction performance than existing alternatives. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper solves a big problem in predicting events related to human activities, like when and where crimes will happen or how many people will use bike-sharing. Right now, we need lots of data from the past to make good predictions, but that’s often not available. The researchers came up with a new way to use short sequences of data to make better predictions. They use special neural networks to understand patterns in time and space, which helps them predict what will happen next. This is important because it can help us make cities safer or more efficient. |
