Capturing Context-Aware Route Choice Semantics for Trajectory Representation Learning

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Main Authors: Cao, Ji, Wang, Yu, Zheng, Tongya, Song, Jie, Guo, Qinghong, Ren, Zujie, Jin, Canghong, Chen, Gang, Song, Mingli
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author Cao, Ji
Wang, Yu
Zheng, Tongya
Song, Jie
Guo, Qinghong
Ren, Zujie
Jin, Canghong
Chen, Gang
Song, Mingli
author_facet Cao, Ji
Wang, Yu
Zheng, Tongya
Song, Jie
Guo, Qinghong
Ren, Zujie
Jin, Canghong
Chen, Gang
Song, Mingli
contents Trajectory representation learning (TRL) aims to encode raw trajectory data into low-dimensional embeddings for downstream tasks such as travel time estimation, mobility prediction, and trajectory similarity analysis. From a behavioral perspective, a trajectory reflects a sequence of route choices within an urban environment. However, most existing TRL methods ignore this underlying decision-making process and instead treat trajectories as static, passive spatiotemporal sequences, thereby limiting the semantic richness of the learned representations. To bridge this gap, we propose CORE, a TRL framework that integrates context-aware route choice semantics into trajectory embeddings. CORE first incorporates a multi-granular Environment Perception Module, which leverages large language models (LLMs) to distill environmental semantics from point of interest (POI) distributions, thereby constructing a context-enriched road network. Building upon this backbone, CORE employs a Route Choice Encoder with a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, which captures route choice patterns by jointly leveraging the context-enriched road network and navigational factors. Finally, a Transformer encoder aggregates the route-choice-aware representations into a global trajectory embedding. Extensive experiments on 4 real-world datasets across 6 downstream tasks demonstrate that CORE consistently outperforms 12 state-of-the-art TRL methods, achieving an average improvement of 9.79% over the best-performing baseline. Our code is available at https://github.com/caoji2001/CORE.
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spellingShingle Capturing Context-Aware Route Choice Semantics for Trajectory Representation Learning
Cao, Ji
Wang, Yu
Zheng, Tongya
Song, Jie
Guo, Qinghong
Ren, Zujie
Jin, Canghong
Chen, Gang
Song, Mingli
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Trajectory representation learning (TRL) aims to encode raw trajectory data into low-dimensional embeddings for downstream tasks such as travel time estimation, mobility prediction, and trajectory similarity analysis. From a behavioral perspective, a trajectory reflects a sequence of route choices within an urban environment. However, most existing TRL methods ignore this underlying decision-making process and instead treat trajectories as static, passive spatiotemporal sequences, thereby limiting the semantic richness of the learned representations. To bridge this gap, we propose CORE, a TRL framework that integrates context-aware route choice semantics into trajectory embeddings. CORE first incorporates a multi-granular Environment Perception Module, which leverages large language models (LLMs) to distill environmental semantics from point of interest (POI) distributions, thereby constructing a context-enriched road network. Building upon this backbone, CORE employs a Route Choice Encoder with a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, which captures route choice patterns by jointly leveraging the context-enriched road network and navigational factors. Finally, a Transformer encoder aggregates the route-choice-aware representations into a global trajectory embedding. Extensive experiments on 4 real-world datasets across 6 downstream tasks demonstrate that CORE consistently outperforms 12 state-of-the-art TRL methods, achieving an average improvement of 9.79% over the best-performing baseline. Our code is available at https://github.com/caoji2001/CORE.
title Capturing Context-Aware Route Choice Semantics for Trajectory Representation Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14819