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Location data collected from mobile devices represent mobility behaviors at individual and societal levels. These data have important applications ranging from transportation planning to epidemic modeling. However, issues must be overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Alex Berke , Ronan Doorley , Kent Larson , Esteban Moro

Trajectory data is fundamental to modern urban intelligence, yet its sensitivity raises significant privacy concerns. Generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks, Variational Autoencoders, and Diffusion Models have been…

In recent years, there has been a surge in the development of models for the generation of synthetic mobility data. These models aim to facilitate the sharing of data while safeguarding privacy, all while ensuring high utility and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Alexandra Kapp , Helena Mihaljević

The unavailability of training data is a permanent source of much frustration in research, especially when it is due to privacy concerns. This is particularly true for location data since previous techniques all suffer from the inherent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Szilvia Lestyán , Gergely Ács , Gergely Biczók

Generative models have shown promising results in capturing human mobility characteristics and generating synthetic trajectories. However, it remains challenging to ensure that the generated geospatial mobility data is semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ammar Haydari , Dongjie Chen , Zhengfeng Lai , Michael Zhang , Chen-Nee Chuah

Human mobility data are used in numerous applications, ranging from public health to urban planning. Human mobility is inherently sensitive, as it can contain information such as religious beliefs and political affiliations. Historically,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Aya Cherigui , Florent Guépin , Arnaud Legendre , Jean-François Couchot

Preserving the individuals' privacy in sharing spatial-temporal datasets is critical to prevent re-identification attacks based on unique trajectories. Existing privacy techniques tend to propose ideal privacy-utility tradeoffs, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yuting Zhan , Hamed Haddadi , Afra Mashhadi

Although highly valuable for a variety of applications, urban mobility data is rarely made openly available as it contains sensitive personal information. Synthetic data aims to solve this issue by generating artificial data that resembles…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Alexandra Kapp , Julia Hansmeyer , Helena Mihaljević

Understanding and modeling human mobility is central to challenges in transport planning, sustainable urban design, and public health. Despite decades of effort, simulating individual mobility remains challenging because of its complex,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-10 Ye Hong , Yatao Zhang , Konrad Schindler , Martin Raubal

Understanding individual-level human mobility is critical for a wide range of applications. As such, real-world trajectory datasets provide valuable insights into actual movement behaviors and patterns of life but are often constrained by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hossein Amiri , Joon-Seok Kim , Hamdi Kavak , Andrew Crooks , Dieter Pfoser , Carola Wenk , Andreas Züfle

Human mobility plays a crucial role in transportation, urban planning, and public health. Advances in deep learning and the availability of diverse mobility data have transformed mobility modeling. However, existing deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xishun Liao , Qinhua Jiang , Brian Yueshuai He , Yifan Liu , Chenchen Kuai , Jiaqi Ma

Social network analysis faces profound difficulties in sharing data between researchers due to privacy and security concerns. A potential remedy to this issue are synthetic networks, that closely resemble their real counterparts, but can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Alex Davies , Nirav Ajmeri

The sharing of large-scale transportation data is beneficial for transportation planning and policymaking. However, it also raises significant security and privacy concerns, as the data may include identifiable personal information, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Chengen Wang , Alvaro Cardenas , Gurcan Comert , Murat Kantarcioglu

Location trajectories provide valuable insights for applications from urban planning to pandemic control. However, mobility data can also reveal sensitive information about individuals, such as political opinions, religious beliefs, or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jesse Merhi , Erik Buchholz , Salil S. Kanhere

While location trajectories represent a valuable data source for analyses and location-based services, they can reveal sensitive information, such as political and religious preferences. Differentially private publication mechanisms have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Erik Buchholz , Alsharif Abuadbba , Shuo Wang , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated their ability to generate synthetic samples that match a target distribution. However, from a privacy perspective, using GANs as a proxy for data sharing is not a safe solution, as…

Deep learning models have achieved great success in recent years but progress in some domains like cybersecurity is stymied due to a paucity of realistic datasets. Organizations are reluctant to share such data, even internally, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Shengzhe Xu , Manish Marwah , Martin Arlitt , Naren Ramakrishnan

Synthetic data offers a promising solution to the privacy and accessibility challenges of using smart card data in public transport research. Despite rapid progress in generative modeling, there is limited attention to comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yuanyuan Wu , Zhenlin Qin , Zhenliang Ma

Generating human mobility trajectories is of great importance to solve the lack of large-scale trajectory data in numerous applications, which is caused by privacy concerns. However, existing mobility trajectory generation methods still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Huandong Wang , Changzheng Gao , Yuchen Wu , Depeng Jin , Lina Yao , Yong Li

The accelerated growth of mobile trajectories in location-based services brings valuable data resources to understand users' moving behaviors. Apart from recording the trajectory data, another major characteristic of these location-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Cheng Yang , Maosong Sun , Wayne Xin Zhao , Zhiyuan Liu , Edward Y. Chang
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