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Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Bryce Doerr , Richard Linares

Multivariate time series forecasting is a challenging task because the data involves a mixture of long- and short-term patterns, with dynamic spatio-temporal dependencies among variables. Existing graph neural networks (GNN) typically model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Zhuoling Li , Gaowei Zhang , Lingyu Xu , Jie Yu

Decentralized drone swarms deployed today either rely on sharing of positions among agents or detecting swarm members with the help of visual markers. This work proposes an entirely visual approach to coordinate markerless drone swarms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Fabian Schilling , Julien Lecoeur , Fabrizio Schiano , Dario Floreano

Spatio-temporal graph neural networks have proven efficacy in capturing complex dependencies for urban computing tasks such as forecasting and kriging. Yet, their performance is constrained by the reliance on extensive data for training on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Junfeng Hu , Xu Liu , Zhencheng Fan , Yifang Yin , Shili Xiang , Savitha Ramasamy , Roger Zimmermann

Better machine understanding of pedestrian behaviors enables faster progress in modeling interactions between agents such as autonomous vehicles and humans. Pedestrian trajectories are not only influenced by the pedestrian itself but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Abduallah Mohamed , Kun Qian , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Christian Claudel

Accurate forecasting of citywide traffic flow has been playing critical role in a variety of spatial-temporal mining applications, such as intelligent traffic control and public risk assessment. While previous work has made significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Xiyue Zhang , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Lianghao Xia , Peng Dai , Liefeng Bo , Junbo Zhang , Yu Zheng

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning policies to control a large number of homogeneous robots. To this end, we propose a new algorithm we call Graph Policy Gradients (GPG) that exploits the underlying graph symmetry among the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Arbaaz Khan , Ekaterina Tolstaya , Alejandro Ribeiro , Vijay Kumar

This paper explores the use of a novel form of Hierarchical Graph Neurons (HGN) for in-operation behaviour selection in a swarm of robotic agents. This new HGN is called Robotic-HGN (R-HGN), as it matches robot environment observations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Phillip Smith , Aldeida Aleti , Vincent C. S. Lee , Robert Hunjet , Asad Khan

Spatio-temporal graph neural networks (STGNN) have become the most popular solution to traffic forecasting. While successful, they rely on the message passing scheme of GNNs to establish spatial dependencies between nodes, and thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xu Liu , Yuxuan Liang , Chao Huang , Hengchang Hu , Yushi Cao , Bryan Hooi , Roger Zimmermann

Streamflow plays an essential role in the sustainable planning and management of national water resources. Traditional hydrologic modeling approaches simulate streamflow by establishing connections across multiple physical processes, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shu Wan , Reepal Shah , Qi Deng , John Sabo , Huan Liu , K. Selçuk

In this paper, we investigate the decentralized statistical inference problem, where a network of agents cooperatively recover a (structured) vector from private noisy samples without centralized coordination. Existing optimization-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 He Wang , Yifei Shen , Ziyuan Wang , Dongsheng Li , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief , Jie Lu

This paper addresses the problem of autonomous task allocation by a swarm of autonomous, interactive drones in large-scale, dynamic spatio-temporal environments. When each drone independently determines navigation, sensing, and recharging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Chuhao Qin , Evangelos Pournaras

In this paper, we present Neural-Swarm, a nonlinear decentralized stable controller for close-proximity flight of multirotor swarms. Close-proximity control is challenging due to the complex aerodynamic interaction effects between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Guanya Shi , Wolfgang Hönig , Yisong Yue , Soon-Jo Chung

Accurate epidemic forecasting is crucial for effective disease control and prevention. Traditional compartmental models often struggle to estimate temporally and spatially varying epidemiological parameters, while deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shuai Han , Lukas Stelz , Thomas R. Sokolowski , Kai Zhou , Horst Stöcker

Accurate traffic forecasting is essential for smart cities to achieve traffic control, route planning, and flow detection. Although many spatial-temporal methods are currently proposed, these methods are deficient in capturing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Aoyu Liu , Yaying Zhang

The proliferation of generative video models has made detecting AI-generated and manipulated videos an urgent challenge. Existing detection approaches often fail to generalize across diverse manipulation types due to their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Haoyu Liu , Chaoyu Gong , Mengke He , Jiate Li , Kai Han , Siqiang Luo

Accurately forecasting transportation demand is crucial for efficient urban traffic guidance, control and management. One solution to enhance the level of prediction accuracy is to leverage graph convolutional networks (GCN), a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zhengyong Chen , Hongde Wu , Noel E. O'Connor , Mingming Liu

Over the past few years, research on deep graph learning has shifted from static graphs to temporal graphs in response to real-world complex systems that exhibit dynamic behaviors. In practice, temporal graphs are formalized as an ordered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jintang Li , Ruofan Wu , Xinzhou Jin , Boqun Ma , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Accurate traffic prediction is a challenging task in intelligent transportation systems because of the complex spatio-temporal dependencies in transportation networks. Many existing works utilize sophisticated temporal modeling approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Guangyin Jin , Fuxian Li , Jinlei Zhang , Mudan Wang , Jincai Huang

With the process of urbanization and the rapid growth of population, the issue of traffic congestion has become an increasingly critical concern. Intelligent transportation systems heavily rely on real-time and precise prediction algorithms…

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