arXiv Machine Learning

A Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion Instrument for Measuring Regional Human Mobility: The Distributed Human Data Engine (DHDE)

arXiv:2603. 21639v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurately estimating human mobility in peripheral regional economies presents a fundamental measurement challenge: physical ground-truth sensors are sparse, behavioral intent signals are heterogeneous, and environmental friction introduces systematic bias into demand inference.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 12

SeoulMMOD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Origin-Destination Flow Benchmark

SeoulMMOD is a new large‑scale public benchmark that provides three years of hourly origin‑destination flow data for six urban travel modes across 25 districts and 426 sub‑districts in Seoul, along with travel‑time, travel‑distance, calendar, rainfall, and point‑of‑interest signals. The dataset enables city‑wide multimodal mobility analysis and supports the evaluation of 14 forecasting baselines under a common protocol. The benchmark reveals that models effective at the district level may not scale to sub‑district forecasting and that naive joint multi‑mode training does not always improve accuracy.

By Taeyoung Yu, Seonbin Jo, Jiwon Kim, Junyoung Byun
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

AsyncCouple-Flow: Asynchronous Cross-Modal Coupling and Flow Matching for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting

AsyncCouple-Flow introduces a new framework for multi‑modal spatio‑temporal forecasting that tackles three key challenges: differing sampling rates, missing modalities, and autoregressive error accumulation. It employs a Modality‑Aware Token Sparsification module to produce equal‑length sequences, an Asynchronous Cross‑Modal Coupling Graph to fuse data under arbitrary asynchrony and missingness, and a Flow‑Matching Forecasting Head that models multi‑step prediction as a conditional ODE. Experiments on weather and traffic datasets demonstrate that the method outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines and remains robust even when up to two modalities are missing.

By Zhixiang Wu, Yining Liu, Bo Zhao, Szu-Yu Chen, Huiran Duan, Chu Lin, Chuanguang Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Full-Feature versus Limited-Input Machine Learning for Residential Energy Estimation: A Comparative Analysis of RECS and ResStock Under Realistic Input Constraints

arXiv:2608. 09255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residential energy estimates are often needed before detailed envelope characteristics, equipment efficiencies, infiltration, sensor, or billing data are available.

By Aditya Ramnarayan, Fatih Evren, Patti Gunderson, Samuel Rosenberg
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

MEOX: Compact Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts for Earth Observation

MEOX is a compact multimodal masked autoencoder designed for Earth Observation that uses a 2.939 million‑parameter encoder and 3.115 million total parameters. It incorporates sensor‑specific adapters, explicit validity signals, and a shared sparse‑expert block to maintain modality‑dependent processing before a learned patch‑wise fusion, followed by fourteen encoder blocks that process a single spatial sequence with four metadata tokens. Pretrained on 1.228 million MMEarth64 samples, MEOX achieves strong performance on GEO‑Bench tasks, surpassing prior CSMoE results, and demonstrates effective sensor‑flexible representation learning with a modest parameter budget.

By Mohanad Albughdadi
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

BER-PEF: Unified Human Mobility Predictability Evaluation via Bayes Error Rate Estimation

BER-PEF is a Bayes‑error‑rate‑based framework that transforms BER estimation into human mobility predictability estimation, enabling comparison of different estimators even when ground truth predictability is not observable. It maps various data types—symbolic sequences, numeric trajectories, contextual features, and learned representations—into a shared feature–label space and evaluates estimator outputs along controlled perturbation curves against a common predictability reference interval. Experiments on datasets such as Foursquare NYC/TKY, GeoLife, and T‑Drive show that several BER‑based estimators outperform existing methods on symbolic sequences and numeric trajectories, and that aggregating evidence across multiple perturbation levels yields a more reliable basis for selecting estimators.

By En Xu, Jingtao Ding, Zhiwen Yu, Yong Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Ask for Any Appliance: A Prompt-Programmable Foundation Model for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

The paper introduces FM4NILM, a prompt‑programmable foundation model that estimates the power usage of any requested appliance from whole‑home meter data, a natural‑language description, and optional activation examples. Trained on 645k sequences from seven public datasets, the lightweight transformer achieves competitive performance across twelve appliance requests, outperforming seven appliance‑specific baselines on key metrics such as event F1 and active‑window MAE. The model’s design allows new appliance coverage to be added via prompts and examples rather than building separate specialist networks.

By Xudong Wang, Jiacheng Cui, Junyu Xue, Tongxin Li, Guoming Tang
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Neuro-Geospatial Modelling of EEG Affective States Using Literature-Informed Environmental Context

The study explores whether environmental data can enhance EEG-based affective-state classification by treating such data as literature-informed priors. Using a dual‑tower model that fuses EEG-Conformer representations with a graph‑based environmental encoder, the authors achieve 76.2% accuracy versus 67.4% for EEG alone on a dataset from Astana. Experiments with controls, dose‑response reversal, and domain‑shift show that the improvement is not solely due to environmental information, and replacing Astana’s environmental distribution with Singapore’s reduces accuracy to 72.8%.

By Utsav Poudel, Jagannath Aryal, Subramaniyaswamy Vairavasundaram
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

TS-Mob: Social and Geographical-Aware Time Series Foundation-Model Framework for Human Mobility Prediction

arXiv:2507. 00945v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Short-term forecasting of aggregated human mobility flows supports urban planning, intelligent transportation systems, and emergency response, yet existing models often require substantial mobility history and learn spatial structure implicitly through grids or graphs.

By Massimiliano Luca, Ciro Beneduce, Bruno Lepri