A latest paper by a research team at the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau (UM), titled ‘Preserving Dynamic Attention for Long-Term Spatial-Temporal Prediction’, has been accepted by ACM SIGKDD 2020, a top conference in the field. This year, a total of 1,279 papers were submitted to the Research Track of KDD, of which 216 were accepted (16.8%).
A UM SKL-IoTSC paper on data mining has been accepted by the top international conference ACM SIGKDD
Led by Prof Jia Weijia, deputy director of the lab, the team studied various cutting-edge machine learning methods for mining spatial-temporal information. They found that most of these methods only focus on predicting the results of a certain time step in the future, but to achieve reliable long-term prediction, it is imperative to filter out noise and prevent errors from spreading through complex correlations. Finally, the team proposed a method with high prediction accuracy. Compared with previous methods, this new method can significantly improve the accuracy of the prediction results through extensive evaluation of multiple real-world data sets.
The first author of the paper, Stark Lin Haoxing, is a second-year master’s student of computer science in the Faculty of Science and Technology. He joined the state key lab in September 2018 and has since been working under the guidance of Prof Jia. Lin mainly studies the prediction of spatial-temporal phenomena in urban-wise systems.