TL;DR
Existing methods for understanding points-of-interest (POIs) focus on static metadata or movement patterns, neglecting how places are used. This research introduces a framework that learns POI functions from human movement data, providing a more dynamic understanding of locations.
✦ Why It Matters
Engineers can leverage this framework to improve location-based services and urban planning by understanding POI functions better.
Key Takeaways
How It Works
ME-POIs combines embeddings from language models with human mobility data to create context-independent representations of POIs. It uses contrastive learning to align individual visit embeddings with POI representations, capturing how different users interact with locations over time.
The framework also includes a novel mechanism to spread visit patterns from frequently visited POIs to less popular ones, enhancing the model's ability to generalize across various spatial contexts.
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