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Modeling Advection on Directed Graphs using Mat\'ern Gaussian Processes for Traffic Flow

Numerical Analysis 2022-02-21 v3 Numerical Analysis Machine Learning

Abstract

The transport of traffic flow can be modeled by the advection equation. Finite difference and finite volumes methods have been used to numerically solve this hyperbolic equation on a mesh. Advection has also been modeled discretely on directed graphs using the graph advection operator [4, 18]. In this paper, we first show that we can reformulate this graph advection operator as a finite difference scheme. We then propose the Directed Graph Advection Mat\'ern Gaussian Process (DGAMGP) model that incorporates the dynamics of this graph advection operator into the kernel of a trainable Mat\'ern Gaussian Process to effectively model traffic flow and its uncertainty as an advective process on a directed graph.

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@article{arxiv.2201.00001,
  title  = {Modeling Advection on Directed Graphs using Mat\'ern Gaussian Processes for Traffic Flow},
  author = {Danielle C Maddix and Nadim Saad and Yuyang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00001},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted at the Machine Learning and Physical Sciences NeurIPS 2021 Workshop https://ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2021/files/NeurIPS_ML4PS_2021_13.pdf

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