arXiv Machine Learning

Massive-STEPS: Massive Semantic Trajectories for Understanding POI Check-ins -- Dataset and Benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Capturing Context-Aware Route Choice Semantics for Trajectory Representation Learning

arXiv:2510. 14819v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Trajectory representation learning (TRL) aims to encode raw trajectory data into low-dimensional embeddings for downstream tasks such as travel time estimation, mobility prediction, and trajectory similarity analysis.

By Ji Cao, Yu Wang, Tongya Zheng, Jie Song, Qinghong Guo, Zujie Ren, Canghong Jin, Gang Chen, Mingli Song
arXiv AI
Jul 10

MobiDiff: Semantic-Aware Multi-Channel Discrete Diffusion for Human Mobility Data Generation

arXiv:2607. 08357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility data are essential for transportation optimization, urban planning, and resource allocation, yet real-world mobility data are costly to collect and difficult to share due to privacy concerns.

By Rongchao Xu, Lin Jiang, Dahai Yu, Ximiao Li, Taichi Liu, Desheng Zhang, Yuan Tian, Guang Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 24

Fine-tuning LLMs for Tourist Trajectory Prediction using Field Experiment Data

The paper demonstrates that fine‑tuning large language models (LLMs) on local tourist trajectory data can predict visitor movements under varying conditions. Using 566 trajectories from Wakayama Castle Park, Japan, the authors fine‑tuned Llama‑3.1‑8B, achieving 49.1% accuracy for next point‑of‑interest predictions and maintaining strong performance even on undersampled scenarios such as rainy days. This shows that LLMs can serve as high‑fidelity, context‑aware behavior models for tourist prediction and enable counterfactual analysis of mobility interventions.

By Tatsuya Amano, Hirozumi Yamaguchi
arXiv AI
Aug 19

CityReal: Human-Aligned Urban Behavior and City Dynamics Simulation with Large-Scale LLM Agents

CityReal is a modular framework that uses large language model agents to simulate human-aligned urban behavior. It models agents as intention-driven decision makers who pursue coherent mobility and activity plans, learning habits and preferences over time. By training textual adapters to align agent decisions with observed population statistics, CityReal improves realism at both micro and macro levels and can scale to tens of thousands of agents for analyzing crowd density, place popularity, mobility flows, and well‑being under various urban scenarios.

By Nicolas Bougie, Xiaotong Ye, Narimasa Watanabe