MobTCast: Leveraging Auxiliary Trajectory Forecasting for Human Mobility Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01401v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:42:15 GMT
• Title: MobTCast: Leveraging Auxiliary Trajectory Forecasting for Human Mobility Prediction
• Authors: Hao Xue, Flora D.Salim, Yongli Ren, Nuria Oliver
• Abstract summary: We propose MobTCast, a Transformer-based context-aware network for mobility prediction. We explore the influence of four types of context in the mobility prediction: temporal, semantic, social and geographical contexts. In our experimental results, MobTCast outperforms other state-of-the-art next POI prediction methods.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Human mobility prediction is a core functionality in many location-based services and applications. However, due to the sparsity of mobility data, it is not an easy task to predict future POIs (place-of-interests) that are going to be visited. In this paper, we propose MobTCast, a Transformer-based context-aware network for mobility prediction. Specifically, we explore the influence of four types of context in the mobility prediction: temporal, semantic, social and geographical contexts. We first design a base mobility feature extractor using the Transformer architecture, which takes both the history POI sequence and the semantic information as input. It handles both the temporal and semantic contexts. Based on the base extractor and the social connections of a user, we employ a self-attention module to model the influence of the social context. Furthermore, unlike existing methods, we introduce a location prediction branch in MobTCast as an auxiliary task to model the geographical context and predict the next location. Intuitively, the geographical distance between the location of the predicted POI and the predicted location from the auxiliary branch should be as close as possible. To reflect this relation, we design a consistency loss to further improve the POI prediction performance. In our experimental results, MobTCast outperforms other state-of-the-art next POI prediction methods. Our approach illustrates the value of including different types of context in next POI prediction.

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