# "When and Where?": Behavior Dominant Location Forecasting with   Micro-blog Streams

**Authors:** Bhaskar Gautam, Annappa Basava, Abhishek Singh, Amit Agrawal

arXiv: 1812.06443 · 2019-02-15

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel algorithm for predicting future user locations based on micro-blog streams, leveraging dynamic community formation and neural networks, achieving significant accuracy improvements over existing methods.

## Contribution

The paper presents a new location forecasting algorithm that exploits dynamic user interests and community formation, with extensive experiments on large-scale micro-blog data.

## Key findings

- Achieved 62.10% mean average precision on 1.2 million embeddings.
- Surpassed state-of-the-art accuracy by 85.92%.
- Demonstrated effectiveness of neural networks in location prediction.

## Abstract

The proliferation of smartphones and wearable devices has increased the availability of large amounts of geospatial streams to provide significant automated discovery of knowledge in pervasive environments, but most prominent information related to altering interests have not yet adequately capitalized. In this paper, we provide a novel algorithm to exploit the dynamic fluctuations in user's point-of-interest while forecasting the future place of visit with fine granularity. Our proposed algorithm is based on the dynamic formation of collective personality communities using different languages, opinions, geographical and temporal distributions for finding out optimized equivalent content. We performed extensive empirical experiments involving, real-time streams derived from 0.6 million stream tuples of micro-blog comprising 1945 social person fusion with graph algorithm and feed-forward neural network model as a predictive classification model. Lastly, The framework achieves 62.10% mean average precision on 1,20,000 embeddings on unlabeled users and surprisingly 85.92% increment on the state-of-the-art approach.

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