Decoupling Long-and Short-Term Patterns in Spatiotemporal Inference

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Decoupling Long-and Short-Term Patterns in Spatiotemporal Inference
Title:
Decoupling Long-and Short-Term Patterns in Spatiotemporal Inference
Journal Title:
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Publication Date:
21 July 2023
Citation:
Hu, J., Liang, Y., Fan, Z., Liu, L., Yin, Y., & Zimmermann, R. (2024). Decoupling Long-and Short-Term Patterns in Spatiotemporal Inference. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2023.3293814
Abstract:
Sensors are the key to environmental monitoring, which impart benefits to smart cities in many aspects, such as providing real-time air quality information to assist human decision-making. However, it is impractical to deploy massive sensors due to the expensive costs, resulting in sparse data collection. Therefore, how to get fine-grained data measurement has long been a pressing issue. In this paper, we aim to infer values at non-sensor locations based on observations from available sensors (termed spatiotemporal inference), where capturing spatiotemporal relationships among the data plays a critical role. Our investigations reveal two significant insights that have not been explored by previous works. Firstly, data exhibits distinct patterns at both long- and short-term temporal scales, which should be analyzed separately. Secondly, short-term patterns contain more delicate relations including those across spatial and temporal dimensions simultaneously, while long-term patterns involve high-level temporal trends. Based on these observations, we propose to decouple the modeling of short-term and long-term patterns. Specifically, we introduce a joint spatiotemporal graph attention network to learn the relations across space and time for short-term patterns. Furthermore, we propose a graph recurrent network with a time skip strategy to alleviate the gradient vanishing problem and model the long-term dependencies. Experimental results on four public real-world datasets demonstrate that our method effectively captures both long- and short-term relations, achieving state-of-the-art performance against existing methods.
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Publisher Copyright
Funding Info:
This research / project is supported by the Ministry of Education - Academic Research Fund Tier 2
Grant Reference no. : T2EP20221-0023

It is also supported by Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project 2023A03J0011.
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ISSN:
2162-237X
2162-2388
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