relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/19740/ title: Leveraging transfer learning with deep learning for crime prediction creator: Butt, U.M. creator: Letchmunan, S. creator: Hassan, F.H. creator: Koh, T.W. description: Crime remains a crucial concern regarding ensuring a safe and secure environment for the public. Numerous efforts have been made to predict crime, emphasizing the importance of employing deep learning approaches for precise predictions. However, sufficient crime data and resources for training state-of-the-art deep learning-based crime prediction systems pose a challenge. To address this issue, this study adopts the transfer learning paradigm. Moreover, this study fine-tunes state-of-the-art statistical and deep learning methods, including Simple Moving Averages (SMA), Weighted Moving Averages (WMA), Exponential Moving Averages (EMA), Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), Bi-directional Long Short Term Memory (BiLSTMs), and Convolutional Neural Networks and Long Short Term Memory (CNN-LSTM) for crime prediction. Primarily, this study proposed a BiLSTM based transfer learning architecture due to its high accuracy in predicting weekly and monthly crime trends. The transfer learning paradigm leverages the fine-tuned BiLSTM model to transfer crime knowledge from one neighbourhood to another. The proposed method is evaluated on Chicago, New York, and Lahore crime datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of transfer learning with BiLSTM, achieving low error values and reduced execution time. These prediction results can significantly enhance the efficiency of law enforcement agencies in controlling and preventing crime. © 2024 Butt et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. publisher: Public Library of Science date: 2024 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Butt, U.M. and Letchmunan, S. and Hassan, F.H. and Koh, T.W. (2024) Leveraging transfer learning with deep learning for crime prediction. PLoS ONE, 19 (4 Apri). ISSN 19326203 relation: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85190848696&doi=10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0296486&partnerID=40&md5=e67f653b48472d71e4755cf185c2324b relation: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296486 identifier: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296486