In recent intelligent transportation applications, metro flow forecasting has received much attention from researchers. Most prior arts endeavor to explore spatial or temporal dependencies while ignoring the key characteristic patterns underlying historical flows, e.g., trend and periodicity. Although the multiple granularity distillations or spatial dependency correlation can promote the flow estimation. However, the potential noise and spatial dynamics are under-explored. To this end, we propose a novel Disentanglement-Guided Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Network or DGST to address the above concerns. It contains a Disentanglement Pre-training procedure for characteristic pattern disentanglement learning, a Characteristic Pattern Prediction for different future characteristic explorations, and a Spatial-Temporal Correlation for spatial-temporal dynamic learning. Experiments on a real-world dataset demonstrate the superiority of our DGST.

Deep neural networks have recently achieved considerable improvements in learning human behavioral patterns and individual preferences from massive spatial-temporal trajectory data. However, most of the existing research concentrates on fusing different semantics underlying sequential trajectories for mobility pattern learning which, in turn, yields a narrow perspective on comprehending human intrinsic motions. In addition, the inherent sparsity and under-explored heterogeneous collaborative items pertaining to human check-ins hinder the potential exploitation of human diverse periodic regularities as well as common interests. Motivated by recent advances in disentanglement learning, we propose a novel disentangled solution called SSDL for tackling the next POI prediction problem. SSDL primarily seeks to disentangle the potential time-invariant and time-varying factors into different latent spaces from massive trajectories, providing an interpretable view to understand the intricate semantics underlying human diverse mobility representations. To address the data sparsity issue, we present two realistic trajectory augmentation approaches to enhance the understanding of both the human intrinsic periodicity/habits and constantly-changing intents. In addition, we devise a POI-centric graph structure to explore heterogeneous collaborative signals underlying historical check-ins. Extensive experiments conducted on four real-world datasets demonstrate that SSDL significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches–for example, it yields up to 8.57% averaged improvement on ACC@1.

Accurately predicting human mobility is a critical task in location-based recommendation. Most prior approaches focus on fusing multiple semantics trajectories to forecast the future movement of people, and fail to consider the distinct relations in underlying context of human mobility, resulting in a narrow perspective to comprehend human motions. Inspired by recent advances in disentanglement learning, we propose a novel self-supervised method called SelfMove for next POI prediction. SelfMove seeks to disentangle the potential time-invariant and time-varying factors from massive trajectories, which provides an interpretable view to understand the complex semantics underlying human mobility representations. To address the data sparsity issue, we present two realistic trajectory augmentation approaches to help understand the intrinsic periodicity and constantly changing intents of humans. In addition, a POI-centric graph structure is proposed to explore both homogeneous and heterogeneous collaborative signals behind historical trajectories. Experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of SelfMove compared to the state-of-the-art baselines.