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…
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.
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…
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…
Paper presents a robust model to improve prediction accuracy for real-life mobile phone data.
problem Noisy instances in real-life mobile phone data affect model accuracy.
method Identify and eliminate noisy instances using naive Bayes and Laplace estimators, then build a decision tree model.
result The robust model improves prediction accuracy as shown by experimental results.
New algorithms improve semantic similarity in mobile datasets by incorporating context.
problem Traditional models fail to capture external context in mobile datasets.
method Developed new algorithms to integrate external features into sentence embeddings and semantic similarity scores.
result Applying PCA with eight components and appending multimodal features improves semantic understanding in tweets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
FixyNN improves energy efficiency of mobile computer vision tasks.
problem High energy consumption of state-of-the-art CNN models on mobile devices.
method Fixed-weight feature extractor and programmable CNN accelerator for transfer learning.
result Achieved up to 26.6 TOPS/W energy efficiency, nearly 2x more efficient than conventional accelerators.
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.
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.
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.
There is an increasing interest in exploiting mobile sensing technologies and machine learning techniques for mental health monitoring and intervention. Researchers have effectively used contextual information, such as mobility, communication and mobile phone usage patterns for quantifying individuals' mood and wellbei…
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.
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.
Mobile app improves speech recognition of names with user feedback.
problem Improving speech recognition of proper names on mobile devices.
method Data synthesis and user feedback for keyword-dependent metrics.
result User feedback can significantly improve speech recognition of names.
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) achieve cutting-edge performance on a variety of problems. However, due to their high computational and memory demands, deploying RNNs on resource constrained mobile devices is a challenging task. To guarantee minimum accuracy loss with higher compression rate and driven by the mobile r…
Deep learning classifies mobile traffic from LTE PDCCH.
problem Automatic classification of mobile applications and services.
method Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained on DCI messages.
result 99% accuracy in classifying traffic from LTE PDCCH.
Detecting anomalous activity in human mobility data has a number of applications including road hazard sensing, telematic based insurance, and fraud detection in taxi services and ride sharing. In this paper we address two challenges that arise in the study of anomalous human trajectories: 1) a lack of ground truth dat…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Predicts local AQI using mobile sensor data, improving accuracy by 71.654 MSE.
problem Inaccurate AQI data from sparse sensors in developing countries.
method Spatio-temporal GNNs for fine-grained AQI forecasting.
result Significant improvement in AQI prediction accuracy (71.654 MSE reduction).
Mobile agents classify images via reinforcement learning and consensus.
problem Image classification using multiple mobile agents.
method Proposed network architecture for local belief formation and feature extraction. Decentralized consensus protocol using reinforcement learning.
result Effectiveness of the proposed framework demonstrated on MNIST dataset.
Quantum dynamics algorithm learns manifold from data.
problem Learning manifolds from high-dimensional datasets.
method Simulation of quantum dynamics on a graph embedding of data.
result Algorithm reveals connections between data sampling and quantization.
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…
Modeling shared mobility demand considering supply limitations.
problem Inaccurate demand predictions due to limited supply.
method Censored Gaussian Processes for demand modeling.
result Taking supply limitations into account improves demand predictions.
Real-time drowsiness detection on mobile phones reduces road trauma.
problem Driver drowsiness increases crash risk and road trauma.
method Depthwise separable 3D convolutions combined with early fusion of spatial and temporal information.
result Real-time drowsiness detection on mobile phones reduces road trauma.
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.
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…
MPE models traffic trajectory data to predict next locations.
problem Predicting next locations from traffic trajectory data.
method Mobility pattern embedding model MPE.
result MPE significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in next location prediction.
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.
Efficient equivariant MobileNetV2 for medical applications on mobile devices.
problem Limited computational resources for deep learning models in medical applications.
method Design and optimize an equivariant version of MobileNetV2 with model quantization.
result Achieved close-to state-of-the-art performance on medical dataset with improved efficiency.
A method distills GANs for mobile devices, reducing computation and storage.
problem Heavy computation and storage cost of GANs on mobile devices.
method Knowledge distillation to train a smaller generator with inherited information from a larger teacher generator, including a discriminator.
result Portable GAN models with strong performance achieved.
A framework for privacy-preserving DNN pruning and acceleration.
problem Privacy concerns in DNN weight pruning for mobile devices.
method ADMM-based iterative pruning with synthetic data, compiler optimizations.
result 4.2X, 2.5X, and 2.0X speedup with almost no accuracy loss.
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.
Quantum dynamics reveals hidden geometric structure in data.
problem Understanding complex, high-dimensional datasets through geometric structure.
method Introducing semiclassical and microlocal analysis to data analysis.
result First tractable algorithm for approximating wave dynamics and geodesics on data manifolds.
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,…