通过融合时空人流结构,提升城市区域嵌入表示效果。
Synergistic Fusion of Topological Structure and Temporal Semantics of Mobility for Urban Region Embedding

- 构建时序流动与区域连接结构双视角,捕捉人流动态变化
- 在纽约和芝加哥数据集上,仅用出行数据超越含辅助信息的基线
- 提出多阶交互机制,挖掘双视角共现产生的高阶联合信号
城市区域嵌入在犯罪、收入和服务呼叫预测等城市感知任务中表现优异。现有方法通过整合出行数据与辅助模态,利用跨视图注意力或对比目标将异构特征对齐为统一的区域表示。然而,人类出行的时间动态仍被低估。区域流入流出随时间波动,区域间连接也随时间出现、持续与消失。此外,主流融合策略采用加性组合,忽略了视图共现时产生的联合信号。为此,我们提出移动流-结构协同模型(MoSS),从出行数据中提取两个互补视图:保留各区域每小时流入流出特征的序列视图,以及基于锯齿持久图捕捉区域连接随时间演变过程的结构视图。一个协同模块通过多阶交互,从视图共现中提取涌现表征,显式捕捉跨视图的高阶信号。在纽约市和芝加哥的大量实验表明,仅使用出行数据的MoSS在三个下游任务中均达到当前最优性能,优于依赖辅助模态的基线方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Urban region embeddings have shown promising results in diverse urban sensing tasks such as crime, income, and service-call prediction. Recent methods improve representation quality by integrating mobility data with auxiliary modalities, using cross-view attention or contrastive objectives to align heterogeneous features into a unified region representation. However, leveraging the temporal dynamics of human mobility remains under-explored. Regional inflow and outflow fluctuate throughout the day, and inter-region connections emerge, persist, and dissolve over time. Moreover, prevailing fusion strategies combine views additively and miss the joint signal that emerges only when views co-occur. To address these gaps, we propose Mobility Stream-Structure Synergy (MoSS), which derives complementary views from mobility data: a Sequence view that preserves each region's hourly inflow/outflow profile, and a Structure view based on zigzag persistence diagrams that capture how regional connectivity emerges, persists, and dissolves over time. A synergy module then extracts emergent representations from the co-occurrence of these views through multi-degree interactions, explicitly capturing higher-order signal across views. Extensive experiments on New York City and Chicago show that MoSS achieves state-of-the-art performance across three downstream tasks using mobility data alone, outperforming baselines that rely on auxiliary modalities.
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