Summary of Replay: Modeling Time-varying Temporal Regularities Of Human Mobility For Location Prediction Over Sparse Trajectories, by Bangchao Deng et al.
REPLAY: Modeling Time-Varying Temporal Regularities of Human Mobility for Location Prediction over Sparse Trajectories
by Bangchao Deng, Bingqing Qu, Pengyang Wang, Dingqi Yang, Benjamin Fankhauser, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Feb 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 REPLAY model is a general Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) architecture designed to capture the time-varying temporal regularities of human mobility for location prediction. By incorporating smoothed timestamp embeddings using Gaussian weighted averaging with timestamp-specific learnable bandwidths, REPLAY can adapt to the strengths of different temporal regularities across timestamps. The model outperforms state-of-the-art techniques by 7.7%-10.9% on two real-world datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary REPLAY is a new way to predict where people will be using their past movements. It takes into account not just how far away places are, but also when things happened in the past. This helps it make better predictions because human movement patterns change throughout the day. For example, people tend to follow regular routines during morning commutes. The REPLAY model does this by looking at timestamps from the past and smoothing out any irregularities. It then uses these smoothed timestamps to make more accurate location predictions. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Neural network * Rnn
