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New MARCUS Model Leverages Missing Data for Improved Urban Rent Prediction

Researchers have developed MARCUS, a novel model for urban region representation learning that specifically addresses data incompleteness by treating missing data as a valuable signal rather than noise. The model employs a three-stage process: Intra Learning to encode observed features and missing patterns, Inter Learning to estimate modality reliability, and Fusion to generate final region embeddings using missing-aware and time-aware gating. Applied to rent prediction in Sydney and New York, MARCUS significantly outperformed existing baselines, reducing Mean Absolute Error (MAE) by 51.35% in Sydney and 12.62% in New York. AI

IMPACT This research offers a new method for handling incomplete data in machine learning, potentially improving accuracy in various prediction tasks beyond real estate.

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New MARCUS Model Leverages Missing Data for Improved Urban Rent Prediction

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Chenya Huang, Bin Liang, Zhidong Li, Yuxi Lu, Kunqi Li, Justin Wang, Fang Chen ·

    MARCUS: Missing-Aware Region Representation with Contextual Urban Signals for Rent Prediction

    arXiv:2608.18546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal urban data has expanded the applications of urban region representation learning, such as functional zone identification and real estate appraisal, but also introduces challenges caused by data incompleteness. Existing st…