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Traffic prediction has gradually attracted the attention of researchers because of the increase in traffic big data. Therefore, how to mine the complex spatio-temporal correlations in traffic data to predict traffic conditions more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yuchen Fang , Yanjun Qin , Haiyong Luo , Fang Zhao , Chenxing Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the de facto standard for modeling graph data, with attention mechanisms and transformers significantly enhancing their performance on graph-based tasks. Despite these advancements, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Nikhil Shivakumar Nayak

Individual trajectories, rich in human-environment interaction information across space and time, serve as vital inputs for geospatial foundation models (GeoFMs). However, existing attempts at learning trajectory representations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Fei Huang , Jianrong Lv , Yang Yue

Many real-world ubiquitous applications, such as parking recommendations and air pollution monitoring, benefit significantly from accurate long-term spatio-temporal forecasting (LSTF). LSTF makes use of long-term dependency between spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Wei Shao , Zhiling Jin , Shuo Wang , Yufan Kang , Xiao Xiao , Hamid Menouar , Zhaofeng Zhang , Junshan Zhang , Flora Salim

Positional encodings (PEs) are essential for effective graph representation learning because they provide position awareness in inherently position-agnostic transformer architectures and increase the expressive capacity of Graph Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Evelyn Choi , Stephanie Jegelka , Jure Leskovec , Alejandro Ribeiro

Multi-layer perceptrons (MLP) have proven to be effective scene encoders when combined with higher-dimensional projections of the input, commonly referred to as \textit{positional encoding}. However, scenes with a wide frequency spectrum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Zoe Landgraf , Alexander Sorkine Hornung , Ricardo Silveira Cabral

Transformers have demonstrated outstanding performance in many applications of deep learning. When applied to time series data, transformers require effective position encoding to capture the ordering of the time series data. The efficacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Navid Mohammadi Foumani , Chang Wei Tan , Geoffrey I. Webb , Mahsa Salehi

This paper proposes a spatiotemporal graph neural network-based performance prediction algorithm to address the challenge of forecasting performance fluctuations in distributed backend systems with multi-level service call structures. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhihao Xue , Yun Zi , Nia Qi , Ming Gong , Yujun Zou

Temporal graph neural networks (TGNNs) have gained significant traction for solving real-world temporal graph tasks. However, their interpretability remains limited, as most TGNNs fail to identify which historical interactions most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hongjiang Chen , Xin Zheng , Pengfei Jiao , Huan Liu , Zhidong Zhao , Huaming Wu , Feng Xia , Shirui Pan

In recent years, there has been a rapid development of spatio-temporal prediction techniques in response to the increasing demands of traffic management and travel planning. While advanced end-to-end models have achieved notable success in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhonghang Li , Lianghao Xia , Yong Xu , Chao Huang

In this work, we propose a novel paradigm to encode the position of targets for target tracking in videos using transformers. The proposed paradigm, Dense Spatio-Temporal (DST) position encoding, encodes spatio-temporal position information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jinkun Cao , Hao Wu , Kris Kitani

To capture spatial relationships and temporal dynamics in traffic data, spatio-temporal models for traffic forecasting have drawn significant attention in recent years. Most of the recent works employed graph neural networks(GNN) with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Amit Roy , Kashob Kumar Roy , Amin Ahsan Ali , M Ashraful Amin , A K M Mahbubur Rahman

The application of large language models (LLMs) to graph data has attracted a lot of attention recently. LLMs allow us to use deep contextual embeddings from pretrained models in text-attributed graphs, where shallow embeddings are often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Shima Khoshraftar , Niaz Abedini , Amir Hajian

Sleep stage classification is crucial for detecting patients' health conditions. Existing models, which mainly use Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for modelling Euclidean data and Graph Convolution Networks (GNN) for modelling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuze Liu , Ziming Zhao , Tiehua Zhang , Kang Wang , Xin Chen , Xiaowei Huang , Jun Yin , Zhishu Shen

GNNs have been proven to perform highly effective in various node-level, edge-level, and graph-level prediction tasks in several domains. Existing approaches mainly focus on static graphs. However, many graphs change over time with their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Bahareh Najafi , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Alberto Leon-Garcia

Dynamic graphs evolve continuously, presenting challenges for traditional graph learning due to their changing structures and temporal dependencies. Recent advancements have shown potential in addressing these challenges by developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hao Li , Hao Wan , Yuzhou Chen , Dongsheng Ye , Yulia Gel , Hao Jiang

Positional encoding is essential for supplementing transformer with positional information of tokens. Existing positional encoding methods demand predefined token/feature order, rendering them unsuitable for real-world data with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Kaichen Xu , Yihang Du , Mianpeng Liu , Zimu Yu , Xiaobo Sun

Accurately predicting spatio-temporal network traffic is essential for dynamically managing computing resources in modern communication systems and minimizing energy consumption. Although spatio-temporal traffic prediction has received…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xintong Wang , Haihan Nan , Ruidong Li , Huaming Wu

Walking-assistive devices require adaptive control methods to ensure smooth transitions between various modes of locomotion. For this purpose, detecting human locomotion modes (e.g., level walking or stair ascent) in advance is crucial for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Peiwen Fu , Wenjuan Zhong , Yuyang Zhang , Wenxuan Xiong , Yuzhou Lin , Yanlong Tai , Lin Meng , Mingming Zhang

As transformers are equivariant to the permutation of input tokens, encoding the positional information of tokens is necessary for many tasks. However, since existing positional encoding schemes have been initially designed for NLP tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Takeru Miyato , Bernhard Jaeger , Max Welling , Andreas Geiger