Multi-Scale Diffusion Transformer for Jointly Simulating User Mobility and Mobile Traffic Pattern

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Ziyi, Long, Qingyue, Xue, Zhiwen, Wang, Huandong, Li, Yong
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author Liu, Ziyi
Long, Qingyue
Xue, Zhiwen
Wang, Huandong
Li, Yong
author_facet Liu, Ziyi
Long, Qingyue
Xue, Zhiwen
Wang, Huandong
Li, Yong
contents User mobility trajectory and mobile traffic data are essential for a wide spectrum of applications including urban planning, network optimization, and emergency management. However, large-scale and fine-grained mobility data remains difficult to obtain due to privacy concerns and collection costs, making it essential to simulate realistic mobility and traffic patterns. User trajectories and mobile traffic are fundamentally coupled, reflecting both physical mobility and cyber behavior in urban environments. Despite this strong interdependence, existing studies often model them separately, limiting the ability to capture cross-modal dynamics. Therefore, a unified framework is crucial. In this paper, we propose MSTDiff, a Multi-Scale Diffusion Transformer for joint simulation of mobile traffic and user trajectories. First, MSTDiff applies discrete wavelet transforms for multi-resolution traffic decomposition. Second, it uses a hybrid denoising network to process continuous traffic volumes and discrete location sequences. A transition mechanism based on urban knowledge graph embedding similarity is designed to guide semantically informed trajectory generation. Finally, a multi-scale Transformer with cross-attention captures dependencies between trajectories and traffic. Experiments show that MSTDiff surpasses state-of-the-art baselines in traffic and trajectory generation tasks, reducing Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD) across key statistical metrics by up to 17.38% for traffic generation, and by an average of 39.53% for trajectory generation. The source code is available at: https://github.com/tsinghua-fib-lab/MSTDiff .
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spellingShingle Multi-Scale Diffusion Transformer for Jointly Simulating User Mobility and Mobile Traffic Pattern
Liu, Ziyi
Long, Qingyue
Xue, Zhiwen
Wang, Huandong
Li, Yong
Networking and Internet Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
User mobility trajectory and mobile traffic data are essential for a wide spectrum of applications including urban planning, network optimization, and emergency management. However, large-scale and fine-grained mobility data remains difficult to obtain due to privacy concerns and collection costs, making it essential to simulate realistic mobility and traffic patterns. User trajectories and mobile traffic are fundamentally coupled, reflecting both physical mobility and cyber behavior in urban environments. Despite this strong interdependence, existing studies often model them separately, limiting the ability to capture cross-modal dynamics. Therefore, a unified framework is crucial. In this paper, we propose MSTDiff, a Multi-Scale Diffusion Transformer for joint simulation of mobile traffic and user trajectories. First, MSTDiff applies discrete wavelet transforms for multi-resolution traffic decomposition. Second, it uses a hybrid denoising network to process continuous traffic volumes and discrete location sequences. A transition mechanism based on urban knowledge graph embedding similarity is designed to guide semantically informed trajectory generation. Finally, a multi-scale Transformer with cross-attention captures dependencies between trajectories and traffic. Experiments show that MSTDiff surpasses state-of-the-art baselines in traffic and trajectory generation tasks, reducing Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD) across key statistical metrics by up to 17.38% for traffic generation, and by an average of 39.53% for trajectory generation. The source code is available at: https://github.com/tsinghua-fib-lab/MSTDiff .
title Multi-Scale Diffusion Transformer for Jointly Simulating User Mobility and Mobile Traffic Pattern
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10158