A Q-learning approach optimizes RTB ad campaigns for mobile app installs.
problem Optimizing RTB ad campaigns for mobile app installs with delayed rewards.
method State space based policy trained via Q-learning algorithm to handle delayed install notifications.
result Significant increase in profit and number of efficient campaigns.
Federated Learning improves mobile data privacy by training classifiers without sharing raw data.
problem Privacy concerns in packet classification due to sensitive data sharing.
method Apply Federated Learning to mobile packet classification tasks, training models without raw data sharing.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of the approach in terms of performance, cost, and privacy.
The paper optimizes neural network inference on mobile GPUs.
problem Limited computing power and thermal constraints on mobile CPUs.
method Leverage mobile GPUs for neural network inference.
result Real-time inference of deep neural networks on Android and iOS devices.
Neural pedagogical agent updates user models in real-time for mobile education apps.
problem Real-time user modeling for dynamic mobile education platforms.
method Bidirectional recurrent neural networks with attention mechanism over embedded question-response pairs.
result Model outperforms existing approaches in predicting user response correctness.
In the cost per click (CPC) pricing model, an advertiser pays an ad network only when a user clicks on an ad; in turn, the ad network gives a share of that revenue to the publisher where the ad was impressed. Still, advertisers may be unsatisfied with ad networks charging them for "valueless" clicks, or so-called accid…
Improves CRRR for better mobility analysis with DCTM.
problem Unclear interpretation of RRRX parameters.
method Uses DCTM for conditional ranks, cross-fitting, and asymptotic theory.
result Clearer interpretation and improved accuracy in mobility analysis.
Proposes D2D-LSTM for predicting mobile social network content diffusion paths.
problem Lack of accurate content popularity prediction considering time and location in mobile social networks.
method D2D-LSTM, a deep neural network combining user social features and files features.
result Significantly improved prediction accuracy (up to 85.858%) and faster convergence (less than 100 steps).
Increasing technological sophistication and widespread use of smartphones and wearable devices provide opportunities for innovative and highly personalized health interventions. A Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) uses real-time data collection and communication capabilities of modern mobile devices to deliver…
New HANNA architecture improves accuracy, latency, and energy efficiency for mobile devices.
problem Designing neural networks optimized for specific hardware devices.
method Differentiable NAS method with energy term added to loss function.
result HANNA achieves significant speedup and energy efficiency over MobileNetv2 and CondenseNet.
Survey of mobility studies using mobile phone data.
problem Understanding human mobility patterns.
method Data Science techniques applied to mobile phone datasets.
result Applications in urban planning, data traffic prediction, etc.
Mobile sensing is an emerging technology that utilizes agent-participatory data for decision making or state estimation, including multimedia applications. This article investigates the structure of mobile sensing schemes and introduces crowdsourcing methods for mobile sensing. Inspired by social network, one can estab…
Introduces mobility algebra for modeling geodesics on n-spheres.
problem Modeling geodesics on n-spheres using algebraic structures.
method Introduces mobility algebra and mobility spaces, showing connections to modules and affine spaces.
result Shows geodesics on n-spheres as mobility spaces over unit interval mobility algebra.
The paper presents a probabilistic method to discover daily human mobility patterns from mobile data.
problem Discovering daily human mobility patterns from mobile data.
method A non-parameter Bayesian modeling method, Infinite Gaussian Mixture Model, combined with Kullback-Leibler divergence for automatic clustering.
result The IGMM-based algorithm outperforms the GMM-based algorithm in discovering mobility patterns.
FLAME auto-labels mobile data efficiently on diverse processors.
problem Accurately and efficiently labeling mobile data with unknown labels on heterogeneous processors.
method Self-adaptive auto-labeling system Flame that schedules and executes workloads on mobile processors.
result Flame achieves high labeling accuracy and performance on heterogeneous mobile processors.
Mobile SoCs can improve ML inference by 2x when all components are used concurrently.
problem Power-performance trade-offs in mobile ML inference on heterogeneous SoCs.
method Quantitative evaluation of different ML components on mobile SoCs.
result Mobile SoCs can achieve up to 2x improvement in inference performance by using all components concurrently.
Graphs model human mobility patterns, reducing errors in data matching.
problem Lack of high-quality data and computational resources for graph-based mobility analysis.
method Embedding graphs into a continuous space to address matching, modeling, and visualization challenges.
result Approx 40% decrease in error on average in matched graphs vs unmatched ones.
Model predicts urban population using mobile data traffic.
problem Estimating urban population dynamics from mobile data.
method Data-driven approach combining NetMob 2023 and ENACT datasets.
result NetMob 2023 data can estimate urban population with XGBoost models.
In this paper, we investigate the economic mobility in some money transfer models which have been applied into the research on wealth distribution. We demonstrate the mobility by recording the time series of agents' ranks and observing their volatility. We also compare the mobility quantitatively by employing an index,…
MobILE learns from expert demonstrations without access to actions, achieving strong performance guarantees.
problem Imitation Learning from Observations alone (ILFO) where actions are not observed.
method MobILE integrates optimism in the face of uncertainty into distribution matching IL framework, trading off exploration and imitation.
result MobILE provides strong performance guarantees for certain MDP dynamics and demonstrates efficacy on OpenAI Gym tasks.
New models predict mobility flows as well as complex machine learning but are simpler and interpretable.
problem Incomplete understanding and modeling of human mobility flows.
method Developed simple machine-learned, closed-form models of mobility.
result These models predict mobility flows more accurately than gravity or complex machine/deep learning models.
Proposes E-MIIM for better mobile phone interruptions management.
problem Improper phone interruptions in daily life activities.
method Ensemble learning based on context-aware mobile telephony model.
result E-MIIM outperforms existing MIIM models in prediction accuracy.
This paper analyzes mobile device training of deep learning models.
problem Performance characterization of training deep learning models on mobile devices.
method Experiments on NVIDIA TX2, benchmark suite, and tools for performance analysis.
result Interesting performance problems and opportunities revealed.
Mobile big data contains vast statistical features in various dimensions, including spatial, temporal, and the underlying social domain. Understanding and exploiting the features of mobile data from a social network perspective will be extremely beneficial to wireless networks, from planning, operation, and maintenance…
TraLFM models human mobility patterns from traffic trajectories.
problem Understanding human mobility patterns from traffic data.
method Latent factor modeling of sequential, personal, and temporal factors.
result TraLFM significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in latent factor analysis and next location prediction.
Study predicts traffic congestion based on population mobility data.
problem Predicting traffic congestion in multimodal transport networks.
method Machine learning methods applied to population mobility data.
result Likely prediction of congestion based on population movements.
Proposes a method to generate counterfactual and contrastive explanations using SHAP.
problem Need for explainable AI and legal requirement for model interpretability.
method Model agnostic method using SHAP to generate contrastive and counterfactual explanations.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of the method on various datasets.
Proposes a method to predict content preferences for mobile users in decentralized caching networks.
problem Determining caching schemes for decentralized caching networks with mobile traffic.
method Formulates content preference learning as a DRMTL problem, integrates mobility prediction, and uses ADMM for optimization.
result Mobility-aware content preference learning provides more accurate predictions and improved hit ratios.
Paper proposes a new classifier for gender detection in mobile telematics.
problem Detecting gender through mobile telematics data.
method Choquet fuzzy integral vertical bagging classifier combining random forest and rough set theory.
result Choquet fuzzy integral vertical bagging classifier outperforms other classifiers.
In this work, we analyze the problem of adoption of mobile money in Pakistan by using the call detail records of a major telecom company as our input. Our results highlight the fact that different sections of the society have different patterns of adoption of digital financial services but user mobility related feature…
This papers presents a deep learning-based framework to predict crowdsourced service availability spatially and temporally. A novel two-stage prediction model is introduced based on historical spatio-temporal traces of mobile crowdsourced services. The prediction model first clusters mobile crowdsourced services into r…
This paper develops synthetic mobility datasets to protect privacy while maintaining realism.
problem Privacy concerns restrict sharing real mobility datasets, leading to lack of reproducibility.
method The paper benchmarks RNNs, GANs, and copulas to generate realistic synthetic trajectories.
result The approach generates trajectories that are statistically and semantically similar to real-world data.
We present and test a sequential learning algorithm for the short-term prediction of human mobility. This novel approach pairs the Exponential Weights forecaster with a very large ensemble of experts. The experts are individual sequence prediction algorithms constructed from the mobility traces of 10 million roaming mo…
Extracts patterns from mobile network data for better resource management.
problem Improving network efficiency and resource allocation for mobile users.
method Spatiotemporal analysis of internet activity records (IARs) data.
result Developed a mobile traffic partitioning scheme.
SplitEasy trains ML models on mobile devices without server data transfer.
problem Training complex DL models on resource-limited mobile devices.
method Split learning approach where sensitive layers are trained locally, computationally intensive layers on server.
result SplitEasy trains models on mobile devices with minimal data transfer, near-constant time per sample.
Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of people within a city is crucial to many planning applications. Obtaining data to create required knowledge, currently involves costly survey methods. At the same time ubiquitous mobile sensors from personal GPS devices to mobile phones are collecting massive amounts of d…
Detects anomalies in autonomous mobile robots using vision.
problem Anomaly detection for autonomous mobile robots.
method Unsupervised deep learning methods and a novel dataset.
result State-of-the-art approach tested on a new dataset.
Paper proposes Q-learning for efficient aerial BS placement to improve fairness in mobile networks.
problem Optimal placement of aerial base stations to enhance fairness in a dynamic user mobility environment.
method Reinforcement learning approach to solve the NP-hard problem of 3D placement.
result Simulation results show increased fairness among users with a reasonable computing time and solution close to optimal.
A real-time context-aware system for IoT using mobile devices.
problem Challenges in running machine learning on mobile devices.
method Developed a context-learning algorithm for mobile devices that updates itself periodically from the server.
result Achieved mean accuracy of 97.51% with only 11ms execution time.
Method discovers user habits from mobile data.
problem Understanding human mobility patterns and habits.
method Density-based clustering for spatio-temporal data and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM).
result Many unique habits were identified from the datasets.
Paper infers human mobility from sparse trajectories.
problem Modeling and inferring human mobility from sparse trajectory data.
method Proposes a single trajectory inference algorithm and a deep learning architecture for multiple trajectories.
result Deep learning model achieves 2x overall accuracy improvement on sparse trajectories.
hood2vec identifies urban area similarity via mobility networks.
problem Identifying similar urban areas using mobility networks.
method Learning node embeddings of the mobility network from Foursquare check-ins.
result Mobility dynamics capture different aspects of urban area similarity than venue types.
New method for efficient personalized learning in mobile health.
problem Efficient and personalized learning in mobile health.
method Proposes a novel generative process on kernel composition for online Gaussian Process regression.
result Trajectories of kernel evolutions can be transferred between users to improve learning and kernels are meaningful for mHealth prediction.
TransFall uses transfer learning to improve activity recognition from mobile sensors.
problem Performance degradation due to platform and user movement differences.
method Two-tier data transformation, label estimation, and model generation layers.
result TransFall enhances activity recognition accuracy for new scenarios.
MASnet enhances speech on mobile devices with low latency.
problem Efficiently enhancing speech on mobile devices with low latency.
method MASnet processes linear-scale spectrograms, using ratio masks to enhance noisy frames, and operates in low-latency incremental inference mode.
result MASnet achieves efficient speech enhancement with low latency, reducing FMA/s operations.
Paper develops fine-grain spatiotemporal risk scores using high-resolution mobility data.
problem Developing reliable spatiotemporal risk scores for safe economic reopening.
method Hawkes process-based technique leveraging high-resolution cell-phone location signals.
result Fine-grain spatiotemporal risk scores based on high-resolution mobility data provide useful insights for safe re-opening.
MDLdroid improves mobile deep learning for personal sensing with faster training.
problem Continuous local changes and resource constraints in personal mobile sensing affect global model performance.
method ChainSGD-reduce approach to reduce overhead and balance resources.
result 2x to 3.5x faster training on off-the-shelf mobile devices compared to single-device training.
UrbanRhythm reveals urban dynamics from mobility data.
problem Understanding changing urban activities over time.
method Extracting staying, leaving, arriving attributes; using Saak transform; clustering for city states; motif analysis for short-term regularity.
result Characterized urban dynamics as city state transformations over time.
Study evaluates how changes in mobility affect COVID-19 case rates.
problem Mixed evidence on mobility-COVID-19 case rate associations.
method Modified treatment policy (MTP) approach with TMLE and Super Learner ensemble.
result Shifts in mobility do not consistently affect subsequent case rates after adjusting for confounders.