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Deep Learning for Real-Time Crime Forecasting and its Ternarization

Machine Learning 2017-11-27 v1 Numerical Analysis Machine Learning

Abstract

Real-time crime forecasting is important. However, accurate prediction of when and where the next crime will happen is difficult. No known physical model provides a reasonable approximation to such a complex system. Historical crime data are sparse in both space and time and the signal of interests is weak. In this work, we first present a proper representation of crime data. We then adapt the spatial temporal residual network on the well represented data to predict the distribution of crime in Los Angeles at the scale of hours in neighborhood-sized parcels. These experiments as well as comparisons with several existing approaches to prediction demonstrate the superiority of the proposed model in terms of accuracy. Finally, we present a ternarization technique to address the resource consumption issue for its deployment in real world. This work is an extension of our short conference proceeding paper [Wang et al, Arxiv 1707.03340].

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@article{arxiv.1711.08833,
  title  = {Deep Learning for Real-Time Crime Forecasting and its Ternarization},
  author = {Bao Wang and Penghang Yin and Andrea L. Bertozzi and P. Jeffrey Brantingham and Stanley J. Osher and Jack Xin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08833},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages, 7 figures

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