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Human mobility studies how people move to access their needed resources and plays a significant role in urban planning and location-based services. As a paramount task of human mobility modeling, next location prediction is challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhaoping Hu , Zongyuan Huang , Jinming Yang , Tao Yang , Yaohui Jin , Yanyan Xu

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is of great value for both location-based service providers and users. Recently Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been proved to be effective on sequential recommendation tasks. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Pengpeng Zhao , Haifeng Zhu , Yanchi Liu , Zhixu Li , Jiajie Xu , Victor S. Sheng

Personalized recommendation of Points of Interest (POIs) plays a key role in satisfying users on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs). In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model to find the mapping between user-annotated tags and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

Long-tail motion forecasting is a core challenge for autonomous driving, where rare yet safety-critical events-such as abrupt maneuvers and dense multi-agent interactions-dominate real-world risk. Existing approaches struggle in these…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Bin Rao , Chengyue Wang , Haicheng Liao , Qianfang Wang , Yanchen Guan , Jiaxun Zhang , Xingcheng Liu , Meixin Zhu , Kanye Ye Wang , Zhenning Li

In the context of long-tail classification on graphs, the vast majority of existing work primarily revolves around the development of model debiasing strategies, intending to mitigate class imbalances and enhance the overall performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Haohui Wang , Baoyu Jing , Kaize Ding , Yada Zhu , Wei Cheng , Si Zhang , Yonghui Fan , Liqing Zhang , Dawei Zhou

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation aims to predict users' next locations by leveraging historical check-in sequences. Although existing methods have shown promising results, they often struggle to capture complex high-order…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Jinze Wang , Tiehua Zhang , Lu Zhang , Yang Bai , Xin Li , Jiong Jin

Next-step location prediction plays a pivotal role in modeling human mobility, underpinning applications from personalized navigation to strategic urban planning. However, approaches that assume a closed world - restricting choices to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhehong Ren , Tianluo Zhang , Yiheng Lu , Yushen Liang , Promethee Spathis

Many real-world prediction tasks have outcome variables that have characteristic heavy-tail distributions. Examples include copies of books sold, auction prices of art pieces, demand for commodities in warehouses, etc. By learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xindi Wang , Onur Varol , Tina Eliassi-Rad

Legged robots leverage ground contacts and the reaction forces they provide to achieve agile locomotion. However, uncertainty coupled with contact discontinuities can lead to failure, especially in real-world environments with unexpected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yanhao Yang , Joseph Norby , Justin K. Yim , Aaron M. Johnson

In this paper, we propose a novel pipeline that leverages language foundation models for temporal sequential pattern mining, such as for human mobility forecasting tasks. For example, in the task of predicting Place-of-Interest (POI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Hao Xue , Bhanu Prakash Voutharoja , Flora D. Salim

Predicting the future trajectories of the traffic agents is a gordian technique in autonomous driving. However, trajectory prediction suffers from data imbalance in the prevalent datasets, and the tailed data is often more complicated and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Yuning Wang , Pu Zhang , Lei Bai , Jianru Xue

User mobility prediction is widely considered to be helpful for various sorts of location based services on mobile devices. A large amount of studies have explored different algorithms to predict where a user will visit in the future based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Huoran Li

To safely and efficiently navigate in complex urban traffic, autonomous vehicles must make responsible predictions in relation to surrounding traffic-agents (vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, etc.). A challenging and critical task is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Yuexin Ma , Xinge Zhu , Sibo Zhang , Ruigang Yang , Wenping Wang , Dinesh Manocha

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on accurate trajectory prediction for safe navigation in diverse traffic environments, yet existing models struggle with long-tail scenarios-rare but safety-critical events characterized by abrupt maneuvers,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Bin Rao , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Keqiang Li , Zhenning Li , Hai Yang

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation plays a crucial role in location-based services by predicting users' future mobility patterns. Existing methods typically compute a single user representation from historical trajectories and use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zhenyu Yu , Chunlei Meng , Yangchen Zeng , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Shuigeng Zhou

Accurate human mobility prediction underpins many important applications across a variety of domains, including epidemic modelling, transport planning, and emergency responses. Due to the sparsity of mobility data and the stochastic nature…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Xinglei Wang , Meng Fang , Zichao Zeng , Tao Cheng

A typical trajectory planner of autonomous driving commonly relies on predicting the future behavior of surrounding obstacles. Recently, deep learning technology has been widely adopted to design prediction models due to their impressive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Weitao Zhou , Zhong Cao , Yunkang Xu , Nanshan Deng , Xiaoyu Liu , Kun Jiang , Diange Yang

Predicting human trajectory is crucial for social robot navigation in crowded environments. While most existing approaches treat human as point mass, we present a study on multi-agent trajectory prediction that leverages different human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Nhat Le , Daeun Song , Xuesu Xiao

Knowledge discovery from GPS trajectory data is an important topic in several scientific areas, including data mining, human behavior analysis, and user modeling. This paper proposes a task that assigns personalized visited-POIs. Its goal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jun Suzuki , Yoshihiko Suhara , Hiroyuki Toda , Kyosuke Nishida

We present AutoTraces, an autoregressive vision-language-trajectory model for robot trajectory forecasting in humam-populated environments, which harnesses the inherent reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to model complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Teng Wang , Yanting Lu , Ruize Wang