Advances in Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Forecasting

The field of spatio-temporal modeling and forecasting is rapidly advancing, with a focus on developing innovative methods to capture complex patterns and relationships in data. Recent developments have highlighted the importance of integrating multiple sources of information, such as time series data, spatial dependencies, and external factors, to improve forecasting accuracy. Notably, the use of graph neural networks, attention mechanisms, and transformer architectures has shown great promise in modeling spatio-temporal dependencies and improving prediction performance. Additionally, the incorporation of retrieval-augmented mechanisms and diffusion-based refinement components has enabled more accurate and robust forecasting. Overall, these advances have the potential to significantly impact various applications, including traffic management, air quality prediction, and urban planning.

Noteworthy papers include: MuST2-Learn, which proposes a multi-view spatial-temporal-type learning framework for heterogeneous municipal service time estimation, reducing mean absolute error by at least 32.5%. STRATA-TS, which presents a framework for selective knowledge transfer in urban time series forecasting, consistently outperforming strong forecasting and transfer baselines. DETNO, which introduces a diffusion-enhanced transformer neural operator for long-term traffic forecasting, demonstrating superior performance in extended rollout predictions.

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Integrating Time Series into LLMs via Multi-layer Steerable Embedding Fusion for Enhanced Forecasting

STA-GANN: A Valid and Generalizable Spatio-Temporal Kriging Approach

Set Transformer Architectures and Synthetic Data Generation for Flow-Guided Nanoscale Localization

When Simpler Wins: Facebooks Prophet vs LSTM for Air Pollution Forecasting in Data-Constrained Northern Nigeria

MuST2-Learn: Multi-view Spatial-Temporal-Type Learning for Heterogeneous Municipal Service Time Estimation

STRelay: A Universal Spatio-Temporal Relaying Framework for Location Prediction with Future Spatiotemporal Contexts

A Retrieval Augmented Spatio-Temporal Framework for Traffic Prediction

STGAtt: A Spatial-Temporal Unified Graph Attention Network for Traffic Flow Forecasting

GPG-HT: Generalized Policy Gradient with History-Aware Decision Transformer for Probabilistic Path Planning

Blind Deconvolution of Nonstationary Graph Signals over Shift-Invariant Channels

Learning Short-Term and Long-Term Patterns of High-Order Dynamics in Real-World Networks

Ada-TransGNN: An Air Quality Prediction Model Based On Adaptive Graph Convolutional Networks

Topology Aware Neural Interpolation of Scalar Fields

Multi-Modal Drift Forecasting of Leeway Objects via Navier-Stokes-Guided CNN and Sequence-to-Sequence Attention-Based Models

STRATA-TS: Selective Knowledge Transfer for Urban Time Series Forecasting with Retrieval-Guided Reasoning

FLAIRR-TS -- Forecasting LLM-Agents with Iterative Refinement and Retrieval for Time Series

DETNO: A Diffusion-Enhanced Transformer Neural Operator for Long-Term Traffic Forecasting

Sat2Flow: A Structure-Aware Diffusion Framework for Human Flow Generation from Satellite Imagery

TrajFusionNet: Pedestrian Crossing Intention Prediction via Fusion of Sequential and Visual Trajectory Representations

ML-MaxProp: Bridging Machine Learning and Delay-Tolerant Routing for Resilient Post-Disaster Communication