PathletRL: Trajectory Pathlet Dictionary Construction using Reinforcement Learning
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sophisticated location and tracking technologies have led to the generation of vast amounts of trajectory data. Of interest is constructing a small set of basic building blocks that can represent a wide range of trajectories, known as a trajectory pathlet dictionary. This dictionary can be useful in various tasks and applications, such as trajectory compression, travel time estimation, route planning, and navigation services. Existing methods for constructing a pathlet dictionary use a top-down approach, which generates a large set of candidate pathlets and selects the most popular ones to form the dictionary. However, this approach is memory-intensive and leads to redundant storage due to the assumption that pathlets can overlap. To address these limitations, we propose a bottom-up approach for constructing a pathlet dictionary that significantly reduces memory storage needs of baseline methods by multiple orders of magnitude (by up to ~24K× better). The key idea is to initialize unit-length pathlets and iteratively merge them, while maximizing utility. The utility is defined using newly introduced metrics of trajectory loss and representability. A deep reinforcement learning method is proposed, PathletRL, that uses Deep Q Networks (Dqn) to approximate the utility function. Experiments show that our method outperforms the current state-of-the-art, both on synthetic and real-world data. Our method can reduce the size of the constructed dictionary by up to 65.8% compared to other methods. It is also shown that only half of the pathlets in the dictionary is needed to reconstruct 85% of the original trajectory data.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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