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.
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.
This is a brief survey of the research performed by Grandata Labs in collaboration with numerous academic groups around the world on the topic of human mobility. A driving theme in these projects is to use and improve Data Science techniques to understand mobility, as it can be observed through the lens of mobile phone…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
This paper investigates to identify the requirement and the development of machine learning-based mobile big data analysis through discussing the insights of challenges in the mobile big data (MBD). Furthermore, it reviews the state-of-the-art applications of data analysis in the area of MBD. Firstly, we introduce the …
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.
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…
The study introduces measures of collective mobility from aggregated OD data.
problem Understanding large-scale mobility patterns from aggregated data.
method Developed a framework using synthetic and real data to interpret network-level mobility.
result Aggregated mobility measures reveal network structure and flow constraints.
This paper tackles computational bottlenecks in federated learning on mobile devices.
problem Computationally heterogeneous mobile devices hinder federated learning efficiency.
method Proposes efficient algorithms to schedule mobile devices based on data heterogeneity.
result Achieves up to 100x speedup and 7% accuracy gain in federated learning.
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.
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.
Hidden Markov Models analyze mobile health data to identify APNS states.
problem Subjective self-report measures of APNS lead to errors and biases.
method Exploratory hidden Markov factor models and Stabilized Expectation-Maximization algorithm.
result Identified homogeneous APNS states and dynamic transitions.
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.
In this study, we present a machine learning approach to infer the worker and student mobility flows on daily basis from static censuses. The rapid urbanization has made the estimation of the human mobility flows a critical task for transportation and urban planners. The primary objective of this paper is to complete i…
Study of urban lifestyles from mobility data of 1.2M people in 11 U.S. cities.
problem Lack of interpretability in digital mobility data for understanding urban lifestyles.
method Privacy-enhanced dataset of mobility visitation patterns, latent activity behavior decomposition.
result Detected 12 latent activity behaviors that describe urban lifestyles, not single lifestyles.
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.
Proposes a model to handle mobile health data with irregular measurements.
problem Handling heterogeneous, multi-resolution data in mobile health.
method Individualized dynamic latent factor model for irregular multi-resolution time series data.
result Superior performance compared to existing methods in simulation and smartwatch data applications.
A new framework for mobile authentication using deep metric learning.
problem Challenges in mobile authentication using behavioral biometrics.
method Deep metric learning, private data protection, flexible training scheduling.
result 95% authentication accuracy on public datasets, robust against attacks.
A new federated learning method protects privacy in mobile crowdsensing.
problem Data and model privacy protection in federated extreme gradient boosting for mobile crowdsensing.
method Secret sharing based federated learning architecture FedXGB.
result FedXGB achieves less than 1% accuracy loss while preserving model privacy.
Bayesian model uses mobile data to assess business resilience after hurricanes.
problem Evaluating economic impact of extreme shocks on businesses.
method Bayesian structural time series model with mobile phone data.
result Estimates business resilience after hurricanes, revealing key characteristics.
Mobility datasets are fundamental for evaluating algorithms pertaining to geographic information systems and facilitating experimental reproducibility. But privacy implications restrict sharing such datasets, as even aggregated location-data is vulnerable to membership inference attacks. Current synthetic mobility data…
Bayesian method for imputing actigraph data from mobile devices.
problem Imputing missing actigraph data from mobile devices.
method Bayesian inference and hierarchical dynamic linear model.
result Statistical learning of time-varying impact of explanatory variables on acceleration.
Study investor attention using search volume data before and after mobile device popularity.
problem Accurately measure investor attention in a fast-paced market.
method Compare investor attention using search volume data before and after mobile device popularization.
result Investor attention measured using search volume data is more accurate and faster after mobile device popularization.
The increasing demand for on-device deep learning services calls for a highly efficient manner to deploy deep neural networks (DNNs) on mobile devices with limited capacity. The cloud-based solution is a promising approach to enabling deep learning applications on mobile devices where the large portions of a DNN are of…
Client-based machine learning uses mobile devices for computation, improving privacy and reducing data upload.
problem Exploiting mobile devices for machine learning tasks to protect privacy and reduce data upload.
method Leveraging local hardware and data on mobile devices for computation-intensive tasks, only uploading results.
result Client-based machine learning can relieve server burdens and protect user privacy.
DETECT clusters mobility behaviors from trajectories using deep learning.
problem Clustering similar mobility behaviors in large, complex trajectory data.
method DETECT uses deep learning to cluster mobility behaviors from trajectories, transforming and summarizing them to identify similar behaviors.
result DETECT effectively clusters mobility behaviors from real-world datasets.
Framework prevents data leakage in mobile cloud DNNs.
problem Data leakage from cloud DNNs poses privacy risks.
method Privacy-preserving reinforcement learning framework.
result Framework successfully defends against various privacy attacks.
City2City translates place representations across cities using language translation techniques.
problem Lack of inter-city perspective in place representations from mobility data.
method Applied unsupervised machine language translation methods to translate place representations across different cities.
result Successfully translated place representations from one city to another, validated using landuse data.
Pattern ensembling fills in missing or inaccurate trajectory data.
problem Incompleteness, missing information, and inaccuracies in geolocation data.
method Probabilistically ensemble similar trajectory patterns from the vicinity.
result Reconstructs missing or unreliable trajectory segments effectively.
Proposes a deep spectral Q-learning for mobile health data.
problem Personalized treatment assignment for patients with time-varying covariates.
method Integrates PCA with deep Q-learning for mixed frequency data.
result Mean return converges to optimal under estimated optimal policy.
Challenge forecasts EV charging station usage accurately.
problem Better understanding of EV charging behaviors needed.
method Hierarchical forecasting of EV charging station occupancy.
result Hierarchical forecasting improves EV charging station occupancy predictions.
Mobile app development in recent years has resulted in new products and features to improve human life. Mobile telematics is one such development that encompasses multidisciplinary fields for transportation safety. The application of mobile telematics has been explored in many areas, such as insurance and road safety. …
Real-life mobile phone data may contain noisy instances, which is a fundamental issue for building a prediction model with many potential negative consequences. The complexity of the inferred model may increase, may arise overfitting problem, and thereby the overall prediction accuracy of the model may decrease. In thi…
Extracting significant places or places of interest (POIs) using individuals' spatio-temporal data is of fundamental importance for human mobility analysis. Classical clustering methods have been used in prior work for detecting POIs, but without considering temporal constraints. Usually, the involved parameters for cl…
Mobile phones can record individual's daily behavioral data as a time-series. In this paper, we present an effective time-series segmentation technique that extracts optimal time segments of individual's similar behavioral characteristics utilizing their mobile phone data. One of the determinants of an individual's beh…
Recently, mobile operators in many developing economies have launched "Mobile Money" platforms that deliver basic financial services over the mobile phone network. While many believe that these services can improve the lives of the poor, a consistent difficulty has been identifying individuals most likely to benefit fr…
Study examines ridesourcing patterns in Chicago using K-prototypes segmentation.
problem Limited data on ridesourcing trips hinders research on urban mobility.
method Utilized K-prototypes algorithm for mixed data types segmentation.
result Six ridesourcing user segments identified based on various factors.