Contextualizing MLP-Mixers Spatiotemporally for Urban Data Forecast at Scale

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Hauptverfasser: Nie, Tong, Qin, Guoyang, Sun, Lijun, Ma, Wei, Mei, Yu, Sun, Jian
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author Nie, Tong
Qin, Guoyang
Sun, Lijun
Ma, Wei
Mei, Yu
Sun, Jian
author_facet Nie, Tong
Qin, Guoyang
Sun, Lijun
Ma, Wei
Mei, Yu
Sun, Jian
contents Spatiotemporal traffic data (STTD) displays complex correlational structures. Extensive advanced techniques have been designed to capture these structures for effective forecasting. However, because STTD is often massive in scale, practitioners need to strike a balance between effectiveness and efficiency using computationally efficient models. An alternative paradigm based on multilayer perceptron (MLP) called MLP-Mixer has the potential for both simplicity and effectiveness. Taking inspiration from its success in other domains, we propose an adapted version, named NexuSQN, for STTD forecast at scale. We first identify the challenges faced when directly applying MLP-Mixers as seriesand window-wise multivaluedness. To distinguish between spatial and temporal patterns, the concept of ST-contextualization is then proposed. Our results surprisingly show that this simple-yeteffective solution can rival SOTA baselines when tested on several traffic benchmarks. Furthermore, NexuSQN has demonstrated its versatility across different domains, including energy and environment data, and has been deployed in a collaborative project with Baidu to predict congestion in megacities like Beijing and Shanghai. Our findings contribute to the exploration of simple-yet-effective models for real-world STTD forecasting.
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spellingShingle Contextualizing MLP-Mixers Spatiotemporally for Urban Data Forecast at Scale
Nie, Tong
Qin, Guoyang
Sun, Lijun
Ma, Wei
Mei, Yu
Sun, Jian
Machine Learning
Spatiotemporal traffic data (STTD) displays complex correlational structures. Extensive advanced techniques have been designed to capture these structures for effective forecasting. However, because STTD is often massive in scale, practitioners need to strike a balance between effectiveness and efficiency using computationally efficient models. An alternative paradigm based on multilayer perceptron (MLP) called MLP-Mixer has the potential for both simplicity and effectiveness. Taking inspiration from its success in other domains, we propose an adapted version, named NexuSQN, for STTD forecast at scale. We first identify the challenges faced when directly applying MLP-Mixers as seriesand window-wise multivaluedness. To distinguish between spatial and temporal patterns, the concept of ST-contextualization is then proposed. Our results surprisingly show that this simple-yeteffective solution can rival SOTA baselines when tested on several traffic benchmarks. Furthermore, NexuSQN has demonstrated its versatility across different domains, including energy and environment data, and has been deployed in a collaborative project with Baidu to predict congestion in megacities like Beijing and Shanghai. Our findings contribute to the exploration of simple-yet-effective models for real-world STTD forecasting.
title Contextualizing MLP-Mixers Spatiotemporally for Urban Data Forecast at Scale
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01482