Summary of Red: Effective Trajectory Representation Learning with Comprehensive Information, by Silin Zhou et al.
RED: Effective Trajectory Representation Learning with Comprehensive Information
by Silin Zhou, Shuo Shang, Lisi Chen, Christian S. Jensen, Panos Kalnis
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed self-supervised Trajectory Representation Learning (TRL) framework, called RED, aims to address the limitations of existing TRL methods by effectively utilizing comprehensive information in trajectories. This is achieved through a masked autoencoder (MAE) and a Road-aware masking strategy that preserves key paths while training on a dual-objective task. The framework adopts the Transformer as its backbone model and employs a spatial-temporal-user joint Embedding scheme to encode trajectory information. Experimental results show that RED outperforms 9 state-of-the-art TRL methods by over 5% for 4 downstream tasks on 3 real-world datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary RED is a new approach to Trajectory Representation Learning (TRL) that can be used for tasks like similarity computation, classification, and travel-time estimation. It works by using a special type of neural network called the Transformer, along with some clever masking techniques to help it learn more about trajectories. The goal is to make the system better at understanding different types of movements and patterns in data. So far, RED has been tested on real-world datasets and shows promising results. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoencoder » Classification » Embedding » Mae » Neural network » Representation learning » Self supervised » Transformer
