@conference {1500320, title = {Partially Generative Neural Networks for Gang Crime Classification with Partial Information}, booktitle = {International Conference on AAAI ACM conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES)}, year = {2018}, abstract = {More than 1 million homicides, robberies, and aggravated assaults occur in the United States each year. These crimes are often further classified into different types based on the circumstances surrounding the crime (e.g., domestic violence, gang-related). Despite recent technological advances in AI and machine learning, these additional classification tasks are still done manually by specially trained police officers. In this paper, we provide the first attempt to develop a more automatic system for classifying crimes. In particular, we study the question of classifying whether a given violent crime is gang-related. We introduce a novel Partially Generative Neural Networks (PGNN) that is able to accurately classify gang-related crimes both when full information is available and when there is only partial information. Our PGNN is the first generative-classification model that enables to work when some features of the test examples are missing. Using a crime event dataset from Los Angeles covering 2014-2016, we experimentally show that our PGNN outperforms all other typically used classifiers for the problem of classifying gangrelated violent crimes.}, author = {Seo, Sungyong and Chan, Hau and P. Jeffrey Brantingham and Leap, Jorja and Vayanos, Phebe and Tambe, Milind and Liu, Yan} }