arXiv Machine Learning

Staypoint Detection from Noisy Trajectory Data [Experiment Paper]

arXiv:2607. 19312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting staypoints from raw trajectory data is fundamental to numerous spatial computing applications.

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 8

Efficient Dense Crowd Trajectory Prediction Via Dynamic Clustering

The paper introduces a cluster-based method for predicting dense crowd trajectories, grouping individuals with similar attributes over time to accelerate processing. By replacing individual pedestrian inputs with cluster centroids, the approach reduces computational cost and memory usage while preserving accuracy. Extensive evaluations on challenging dense crowd scenes confirm these benefits compared to state‑of‑the‑art methods.

By Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya, Paul Henderson, Marwa Mahmoud
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 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 Computer Vision
Aug 27

GTPred: Benchmarking MLLMs for Interpretable Geo-localization and Time-of-capture Prediction

GTPred is a new benchmark for geo‑temporal prediction that evaluates multi‑modal large language models (MLLMs) on 370 images taken across 120 years worldwide. It assesses predictions by matching both the year and a hierarchical location sequence, and includes annotated reasoning chains to test intermediate reasoning. Experiments on 15 MLLMs show that while visual perception is strong, models still lack world knowledge and geo‑temporal reasoning, and that adding temporal data improves location inference.

By Jinnao Li, Tingzhu Chen, Changbo Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

TSMini: A Simple Yet Highly Effective Trajectory Similarity Learning Model

TSMini is a trajectory similarity learning model that introduces a sub-view modeling mechanism and a k‑nearest‑neighbor‑based loss to capture multi‑granularity trajectory patterns and relative similarity ranks. These innovations allow TSMini to approximate conventional trajectory similarity measures with high accuracy. Experiments demonstrate that TSMini outperforms state‑of‑the‑art models by an average of 15% on widely used similarity metrics.

By Yanchuan Chang, Dingyang Lyu, Xu Cai, Christian S. Jensen, Jianzhong Qi