Urban Functional Regions Discovering Based on Deep Learning

In recent years, the big data industry chain has become more mature. Analyzing and managing cities by utilizing various big data in cities has become a hot research topic. Urban functional regions discovering is one of the important applications. The mainstream in urban functional regions discovering are probabilistic topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) based topic model, which seeing the regions as documents and their functions are their topics. These methods require feature engineering by hand, which will construct features of limited expressiveness. To overcome these methods’ shortcomings, we introduced a deep learning topic model called document neural autoregressive distribution estimation (DocNADE) into urban functional regions mining. And we did an experiment to test its effect. The experimental result shows that this DocNADE framework has achieved a considerable result in urban function inference compared with Dirichlet Multinomial Regression (DMR) based topic model which is a state of the art of urban functional regions discovering.