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.
HCFContext predicts mobile context using collaborative filtering and homomorphic encryption.
problem Accurate mobile context determination for enterprise policies.
method Proposes HPContext and HCFContext models using sequential history and collaborative filtering, with privacy-preserving homomorphic encryption.
result HCFContext enhances context prediction by leveraging related users' observations.
We propose a real-time context-aware learning system along with the architecture that runs on the mobile devices, provide services to the user and manage the IoT devices. In this system, an application running on mobile devices collected data from the sensors, learned about the user-defined context, made predictions in…
Context-awareness in smart mobile applications is a growing area of study, because of it's intelligence in the applications. In order to build context-aware intelligent applications, mining contextual behavioral rules of individual smartphone users utilizing their phone log data is the key. However, to mine these rules…
Mobile devices learn audio representations using self-supervised methods.
problem Learning general-purpose audio representations on mobile devices.
method Temporal context exploitation in spectrogram domain, inspired by Word2Vec.
result Self-supervised models can produce embeddings that perform similarly to fully supervised models.
Enhances mobile context prediction using weakly supervised learning.
problem Power consumption and limited training data for always-on context prediction.
method Weakly supervised learning framework for multi-modal sensing.
result Personalized context prediction model with improved accuracy.
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.
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…
Traditional semantic similarity models often fail to encapsulate the external context in which texts are situated. However, textual datasets generated on mobile platforms can help us build a truer representation of semantic similarity by introducing multimodal data. This is especially important in sparse datasets, maki…
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.
Predicting and improving player retention is crucial to the success of mobile Free-to-Play games. This paper explores the problem of rapid retention prediction in this context. Heuristic modeling approaches are introduced as a way of building simple rules for predicting short-term retention. Compared to common classifi…
Study examines active travel in Chicago communities, revealing mixed perceptions.
problem Transport disadvantage and lack of active mobility in underserved communities.
method Focus groups, qualitative discourse analysis, quantitative text-mining (topic modeling, sentiment analysis).
result Residents view active travel as both necessity and symbol of privilege, influenced by local culture.
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.
Efficient algorithm for mobile health provides timely physical activity suggestions.
problem Inefficient reinforcement learning for mobile health settings.
method Contextual bandit algorithm with linear mixed effects model and hyper-parameter updating.
result Improves speed and accuracy by up to 99% and 56%.
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.
IntelligentPooling learns personalized mHealth policies from limited data.
problem Challenges in personalizing mHealth policies with limited user data and noise.
method Adaptive use of other users' data to learn personalized policies.
result Achieves 26% lower regret compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
Proposes FairDRL-ST for fair spatio-temporal mobility prediction.
problem Fairness concerns in spatio-temporal AI applications.
method Disentangled representation learning, adversarial learning.
result Achieves fairness in spatio-temporal mobility prediction without performance loss.
Enhances activity recognition in wearable computing with context awareness and uncertainty quantification.
problem Context-dependent activity recognition and unknown contexts in wearable computing.
method Developed the α-{eta} network coupled with uncertainty quantification (UQ) based on maximum entropy.
result Improved accuracy and F-score by 10% through high-level context identification.
Develops algorithms to balance personalization and statistical power in mobile health studies.
problem Balancing personalization and statistical power in mobile health studies.
method Develops general meta-algorithms to modify existing bandit algorithms.
result Guarantees sufficient power while improving user well-being.
Deep learning predicts V2I channel responses for high-mobility wireless communications.
problem Efficient channel estimation for high-mobility V2I communications.
method Developed a deep neural network-based channel prediction method.
result Deep neural networks can learn and predict V2I channel properties in real-time.
HealthSyn generates synthetic user behavior data for health interventions.
problem Lack of representative data for testing AI health interventions.
method Uses Markov processes to simulate diverse user actions, generating logs for ML algorithms.
result Synthetic data can be used to develop, test, and evaluate ML algorithms and RL-based interventions.
Paper uses DeePC to improve urban traffic lights, reducing congestion and emissions.
problem Urban traffic congestion in expanding cities.
method Behavioral system theory, data-driven control, DeePC algorithm.
result DeePC outperforms existing traffic control methods in travel time and CO2 emissions.
CalBehav models individual smartphone user behavior for calendar events.
problem Static calendar models do not reflect individual user behavior.
method Machine learning, context-aware, personalized model using time-series smartphone data.
result Data-driven model more effective for managing incoming mobile communications.
In many mobile health interventions, treatments should only be delivered in a particular context, for example when a user is currently stressed, walking or sedentary. Even in an optimal context, concerns about user burden can restrict which treatments are sent. To diffuse the treatment delivery over times when a user i…
Intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) will be a major component of tomorrow's smart cities. However, realizing the true potential of ITSs requires ultra-low latency and reliable data analytics solutions that can combine, in real-time, a heterogeneous mix of data stemming from the ITS network and its environment. Su…
Unified model forecasts epidemics with spatial and temporal dynamics.
problem Limited accuracy in traditional models and lack of interpretability in deep learning models.
method CSTGNN integrates Spatio-Contact SIR model with Graph Neural Networks.
result Effective spatiotemporal epidemic forecasting with interpretability.
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…
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…
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.
New setting combines state evolution and corrupted context for better decision-making.
problem Decision-making in a changing state with unreliable context.
method Proposes a new algorithm using a referee to dynamically combine contextual bandit and multi-armed bandit policies.
result Improved empirical performance compared to existing algorithms.
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.
ADRL improves participant selection in MCS systems.
problem Designing a participant selection algorithm for different MCS systems with multiple goals.
method Auxiliary-task based deep reinforcement learning (ADRL) using transformers and pointer networks.
result ADRL outperforms other baselines in various MCS settings.
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.
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,…
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.
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.
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.
Build accurate DNN models requires training on large labeled, context specific datasets, especially those matching the target scenario. We believe advances in wireless localization, working in unison with cameras, can produce automated annotation of targets on images and videos captured in the wild. Using pedestrian an…
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 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…