Summary of Unite: a Survey and Unified Pipeline For Pre-training Spatiotemporal Trajectory Embeddings, by Yan Lin et al.
UniTE: A Survey and Unified Pipeline for Pre-training Spatiotemporal Trajectory Embeddings
by Yan Lin, Zeyu Zhou, Yicheng Liu, Haochen Lv, Haomin Wen, Tianyi Li, Yushuai Li, Christian S. Jensen, Shengnan Guo, Youfang Lin, Huaiyu Wan
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores the importance of embeddings in analyzing spatiotemporal trajectories. These sequences of timestamped locations are crucial for various real-world applications. By mapping trajectories to vectors called embeddings, researchers can unlock a range of analyses. However, pre-training embeddings using unlabeled trajectories has shown promising results across different tasks, but there is a need for a unified approach. The paper aims to address two key challenges: providing a comprehensive overview of existing methods and developing a unified pipeline for new method development and analysis. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about how we can better understand movements that happen over time and space. We use special techniques called embeddings to turn these movements into numbers, which helps us analyze them. Right now, there are many ways to make these embeddings, but it’s hard to keep track of all the different methods and how they work together. This paper wants to fix this problem by showing a big picture of what we know so far and making it easier for new ideas to be developed. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Spatiotemporal
