CausalMob: Causal Human Mobility Prediction with LLMs-derived Human Intentions toward Public Events

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02155v2
• Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 06:30:24 GMT
• Title: CausalMob: Causal Human Mobility Prediction with LLMs-derived Human Intentions toward Public Events
• Authors: Xiaojie Yang, Hangli Ge, Jiawei Wang, Zipei Fan, Renhe Jiang, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Noboru Koshizuka,
• Abstract summary: We propose a causality-augmented prediction model, called CausalMob, to analyze the causal effects of public events. Based on large-scale real-world data, the experimental results show that the CausalMob model excels in human mobility prediction.
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• Abstract: Large-scale human mobility exhibits spatial and temporal patterns that can assist policymakers in decision making. Although traditional prediction models attempt to capture these patterns, they often interfered by non-periodic public events, such as disasters and occasional celebrations. Since regular human mobility patterns are heavily affected by these events, estimating their causal effects is critical to accurate mobility predictions. Although news articles provide unique perspectives on these events in an unstructured format, processing is a challenge. In this study, we propose a causality-augmented prediction model, called CausalMob, to analyze the causal effects of public events. We first utilize large language models (LLMs) to extract human intentions from news articles and transform them into features that act as causal treatments. Next, the model learns representations of spatio-temporal regional covariates from multiple data sources to serve as confounders for causal inference. Finally, we present a causal effect estimation framework to ensure event features remain independent of confounders during prediction. Based on large-scale real-world data, the experimental results show that the proposed model excels in human mobility prediction, outperforming state-of-the-art models.

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