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New MoSS method enhances urban region embeddings with temporal mobility data

Researchers have developed a new method called Mobility Stream-Structure Synergy (MoSS) to improve urban region embeddings by integrating temporal mobility data. MoSS captures the dynamic nature of human movement, including hourly inflow/outflow patterns and the emergence and dissolution of regional connectivity over time. Unlike previous methods that combine data additively, MoSS uses a synergy module to extract emergent representations from the co-occurrence of different data views. Experiments conducted in New York City and Chicago demonstrated that MoSS achieved state-of-the-art performance on crime, income, and service-call prediction tasks using only mobility data. AI

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New MoSS method enhances urban region embeddings with temporal mobility data

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Namwoo Kim, Jeeyun Chang, Kanghoon Lee, Yoonjin Yoon ·

    Synergistic Fusion of Topological Structure and Temporal Semantics of Mobility for Urban Region Embedding

    arXiv:2609.08268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban region embeddings have shown promising results in diverse urban sensing tasks such as crime, income, and service-call prediction. Recent methods improve representation quality by integrating mobility data with auxiliary moda…