D-Tracker: Modeling Interest Diffusion in Social Activity Tensor Data Streams

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Autori principali: Higashiguchi, Shingo, Matsubara, Yasuko, Kawabata, Koki, Murayama, Taichi, Sakurai, Yasushi
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author Higashiguchi, Shingo
Matsubara, Yasuko
Kawabata, Koki
Murayama, Taichi
Sakurai, Yasushi
author_facet Higashiguchi, Shingo
Matsubara, Yasuko
Kawabata, Koki
Murayama, Taichi
Sakurai, Yasushi
contents Large quantities of social activity data, such as weekly web search volumes and the number of new infections with infectious diseases, reflect peoples' interests and activities. It is important to discover temporal patterns from such data and to forecast future activities accurately. However, modeling and forecasting social activity data streams is difficult because they are high-dimensional and composed of multiple time-varying dynamics such as trends, seasonality, and interest diffusion. In this paper, we propose D-Tracker, a method for continuously capturing time-varying temporal patterns within social activity tensor data streams and forecasting future activities. Our proposed method has the following properties: (a) Interpretable: it incorporates the partial differential equation into a tensor decomposition framework and captures time-varying temporal patterns such as trends, seasonality, and interest diffusion between locations in an interpretable manner; (b) Automatic: it has no hyperparameters and continuously models tensor data streams fully automatically; (c) Scalable: the computation time of D-Tracker is independent of the time series length. Experiments using web search volume data obtained from GoogleTrends, and COVID-19 infection data obtained from COVID-19 Open Data Repository show that our method can achieve higher forecasting accuracy in less computation time than existing methods while extracting the interest diffusion between locations. Our source code and datasets are available at {https://github.com/Higashiguchi-Shingo/D-Tracker.
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spellingShingle D-Tracker: Modeling Interest Diffusion in Social Activity Tensor Data Streams
Higashiguchi, Shingo
Matsubara, Yasuko
Kawabata, Koki
Murayama, Taichi
Sakurai, Yasushi
Social and Information Networks
Machine Learning
Large quantities of social activity data, such as weekly web search volumes and the number of new infections with infectious diseases, reflect peoples' interests and activities. It is important to discover temporal patterns from such data and to forecast future activities accurately. However, modeling and forecasting social activity data streams is difficult because they are high-dimensional and composed of multiple time-varying dynamics such as trends, seasonality, and interest diffusion. In this paper, we propose D-Tracker, a method for continuously capturing time-varying temporal patterns within social activity tensor data streams and forecasting future activities. Our proposed method has the following properties: (a) Interpretable: it incorporates the partial differential equation into a tensor decomposition framework and captures time-varying temporal patterns such as trends, seasonality, and interest diffusion between locations in an interpretable manner; (b) Automatic: it has no hyperparameters and continuously models tensor data streams fully automatically; (c) Scalable: the computation time of D-Tracker is independent of the time series length. Experiments using web search volume data obtained from GoogleTrends, and COVID-19 infection data obtained from COVID-19 Open Data Repository show that our method can achieve higher forecasting accuracy in less computation time than existing methods while extracting the interest diffusion between locations. Our source code and datasets are available at {https://github.com/Higashiguchi-Shingo/D-Tracker.
title D-Tracker: Modeling Interest Diffusion in Social Activity Tensor Data Streams
topic Social and Information Networks
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00242