Title
Cross-City Transfer Learning for Deep Spatio-Temporal Prediction
Abstract
Spatio-temporal prediction is a key type of tasks in urban computing, e.g., traffic flow and air quality. Adequate data is usually a prerequisite, especially when deep learning is adopted. However, the development levels of different cities are unbalanced, and still many cities suffer from data scarcity. To address the problem, we propose a novel cross-city transfer learning method for deep spatio-temporal prediction tasks, called RegionTrans. RegionTrans aims to effectively transfer knowledge from a data-rich source city to a data-scarce target city. More specifically, we first learn an inter-city region matching function to match each target city region to a similar source city region. A neural network is designed to effectively extract region-level representation for spatio-temporal prediction. Finally, an optimization algorithm is proposed to transfer learned features from the source city to the target city with the region matching function. Using citywide crowd flow prediction as a demonstration experiment, we verify the effectiveness of RegionTrans. Results show that RegionTrans can outperform the state-of-the-art fine-tuning deep spatio-temporal prediction models by reducing up to 10.7% prediction error.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.24963/ijcai.2019/262
international joint conference on artificial intelligence
Field
DocType
Citations 
Data mining,City region,Traffic flow,Scarcity,Computer science,Transfer of learning,Urban computing,Artificial intelligence,Predictive modelling,Deep learning,Artificial neural network,Machine learning
Conference
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leye Wang155136.79
Xu Geng2111.52
Xiaojuan Ma332549.27
Feng Liu4110.84
Qiang Yang517039875.69