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A Spherical Hidden Markov Model for Semantics-Rich Human Mobility Modeling

AAAI 2018 · Probabilistic and scientific modeling › Variational and generative sampling · approach: Tractable probabilistic models · 16 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
model text embeddings with vMF distribution on unit sphere instead of bag-of-words multinomial (GMove)SHMM · Next location prediction, LA and NYtop-K accuracy: +3.2% on averageHelped
use low-dimensional embeddings with vMF instead of bag-of-wordsSHMM · training time, 100 statestraining time: 25.7% faster on LA, 40.9% faster on NYHelped
increase number of hidden states (ablation)SHMM and GMove · Next location predictionaccuracyHelped
increase number of hidden states (ablation)SHMM and GMove · Training costtraining timeHurt

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