[1]ZHOU Jun,ZHANG Zhiqiang,CAO Yuetian,et al.A geography and time aware representation learning framework[J].CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems,2021,16(5):909-917.[doi:10.11992/tis.202104011]
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems[ISSN 1673-4785/CN 23-1538/TP] Volume:
16
Number of periods:
2021 5
Page number:
909-917
Column:
吴文俊人工智能科技进步奖一等奖
Public date:
2021-09-05
- Title:
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A geography and time aware representation learning framework
- Author(s):
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ZHOU Jun1; 2; ZHANG Zhiqiang2; CAO Yuetian2; ZHENG Xiaoling1
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1. College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310007, China;
2. Ant Group, Hangzhou 310013, China
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- Keywords:
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semantic-space-time mode; time modelling; spatial modelling; attention mechanism; graph learning; graph neural network; user behavior modeling; user behavior representation
- CLC:
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TP183
- DOI:
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10.11992/tis.202104011
- Abstract:
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The existing geography and time aware representation learning framework fails to give a unified solution to three problems of “When”, “Where” and “What” in real-world scenarios with strong geography and time aware semantics, and the existing research schemes for time and spatial modeling also have certain defects and thus cannot achieve optimal performance in complex actual scenarios. To fill in these gaps, this paper proposes a unified user representation framework—GTRL (geography and time aware representation learning), which is capable of jointly modeling users’ historical behaviors in both time and spatial dimensions. In terms of time modeling, GTRL adopts a functional time encoding and a continuous time and context aware graph attention network to flexibly exploit high-order and structured temporal information from dynamic user behaviour graphs. In terms of spatial modeling, GTRL uses a hierarchical geography encoding and a deep historical trajectory modelling module to effectively depict users’ preference for geographical location. Moreover, a unified optimization strategy is carefully designed to carry out model learning on three tasks of interaction prediction task, interaction time stamp prediction task and interaction geography prediction. At last, extensive experiments on public and industrial data sets are carried out, demonstrating the advantages of GTUL over the academic baseline model and its effectiveness in actual business scenarios, respectively.