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Incorporating Heterogeneous User Behaviors and Social Influences for Predictive Analysis
Behavior prediction based on historical behavioral data have practical
real-world significance. It has been applied in recommendation, predicting
academic performance, etc. With the refinement of user data description, the
development of new functions, and the fusion of multiple data sources,
heterogeneous behavioral data which contain multiple types of behaviors become
more and more common. In this paper, we aim to incorporate heterogeneous user
behaviors and social influences for behavior predictions. To this end, this
paper proposes a variant of Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) which can consider
context information while modeling a behavior sequence, a projection mechanism
which can model multi-faceted relationships among different types of behaviors,
and a multi-faceted attention mechanism which can dynamically find out
informative periods from different facets. Many kinds of behavioral data belong
to spatio-temporal data. An unsupervised way to construct a social behavior
graph based on spatio-temporal data and to model social influences is proposed.
Moreover, a residual learning-based decoder is designed to automatically
construct multiple high-order cross features based on social behavior
representation and other types of behavior representations. Qualitative and
quantitative experiments on real-world datasets have demonstrated the
effectiveness of this model
Exploring Student Check-In Behavior for Improved Point-of-Interest Prediction
With the availability of vast amounts of user visitation history on
location-based social networks (LBSN), the problem of Point-of-Interest (POI)
prediction has been extensively studied. However, much of the research has been
conducted solely on voluntary checkin datasets collected from social apps such
as Foursquare or Yelp. While these data contain rich information about
recreational activities (e.g., restaurants, nightlife, and entertainment),
information about more prosaic aspects of people's lives is sparse. This not
only limits our understanding of users' daily routines, but more importantly
the modeling assumptions developed based on characteristics of recreation-based
data may not be suitable for richer check-in data. In this work, we present an
analysis of education "check-in" data using WiFi access logs collected at
Purdue University. We propose a heterogeneous graph-based method to encode the
correlations between users, POIs, and activities, and then jointly learn
embeddings for the vertices. We evaluate our method compared to previous
state-of-the-art POI prediction methods, and show that the assumptions made by
previous methods significantly degrade performance on our data with dense(r)
activity signals. We also show how our learned embeddings could be used to
identify similar students (e.g., for friend suggestions).Comment: published in KDD'1
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