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New GEAR model dynamically activates social context for improved trajectory prediction

Researchers have developed GEAR, a novel model for human trajectory prediction that addresses the limitations of existing methods by focusing on how social context is activated during future trajectory generation. Unlike previous approaches that primarily emphasize social information encoding, GEAR dynamically adjusts the influence of individual motion and social interaction cues at each future step. This allows the model to better control the contribution of social factors based on the strength and reliability of interaction evidence, leading to improved performance on benchmark datasets. AI

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New GEAR model dynamically activates social context for improved trajectory prediction

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiaheng Chen, Jiaxing Li, Leixia Wang, Jianan Ju, Tinghe Zhang ·

    GEAR: From Dynamic Encoding to Dynamic Activation in Social Trajectory Prediction

    arXiv:2609.13778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human trajectory prediction requires modeling both individual motion patterns and social interactions among agents. Existing methods have made substantial progress by using attention mechanisms, graph structures, and temporal enco…