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Main Authors: Bu, Tianci, Zhou, Le, Yang, Wenchuan, Mou, Jianhong, Yang, Kang, Tan, Suoyi, Yao, Feng, Wang, Jingyuan, Lu, Xin
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23048
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author Bu, Tianci
Zhou, Le
Yang, Wenchuan
Mou, Jianhong
Yang, Kang
Tan, Suoyi
Yao, Feng
Wang, Jingyuan
Lu, Xin
author_facet Bu, Tianci
Zhou, Le
Yang, Wenchuan
Mou, Jianhong
Yang, Kang
Tan, Suoyi
Yao, Feng
Wang, Jingyuan
Lu, Xin
contents Trajectory data is crucial for various applications but often suffers from incompleteness due to device limitations and diverse collection scenarios. Existing imputation methods rely on sparse trajectory or travel information, such as velocity, to infer missing points. However, these approaches assume that sparse trajectories retain essential behavioral patterns, which place significant demands on data acquisition and overlook the potential of large-scale human trajectory embeddings. To address this, we propose ProDiff, a trajectory imputation framework that uses only two endpoints as minimal information. It integrates prototype learning to embed human movement patterns and a denoising diffusion probabilistic model for robust spatiotemporal reconstruction. Joint training with a tailored loss function ensures effective imputation. ProDiff outperforms state-of-the-art methods, improving accuracy by 6.28\% on FourSquare and 2.52\% on WuXi. Further analysis shows a 0.927 correlation between generated and real trajectories, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach.
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spellingShingle ProDiff: Prototype-Guided Diffusion for Minimal Information Trajectory Imputation
Bu, Tianci
Zhou, Le
Yang, Wenchuan
Mou, Jianhong
Yang, Kang
Tan, Suoyi
Yao, Feng
Wang, Jingyuan
Lu, Xin
Machine Learning
Trajectory data is crucial for various applications but often suffers from incompleteness due to device limitations and diverse collection scenarios. Existing imputation methods rely on sparse trajectory or travel information, such as velocity, to infer missing points. However, these approaches assume that sparse trajectories retain essential behavioral patterns, which place significant demands on data acquisition and overlook the potential of large-scale human trajectory embeddings. To address this, we propose ProDiff, a trajectory imputation framework that uses only two endpoints as minimal information. It integrates prototype learning to embed human movement patterns and a denoising diffusion probabilistic model for robust spatiotemporal reconstruction. Joint training with a tailored loss function ensures effective imputation. ProDiff outperforms state-of-the-art methods, improving accuracy by 6.28\% on FourSquare and 2.52\% on WuXi. Further analysis shows a 0.927 correlation between generated and real trajectories, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach.
title ProDiff: Prototype-Guided Diffusion for Minimal Information Trajectory Imputation
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23048