DualCast: A Model to Disentangle Aperiodic Events from Traffic Series

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Main Authors: Su, Xinyu, Liu, Feng, Chang, Yanchuan, Tanin, Egemen, Sarvi, Majid, Qi, Jianzhong
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author Su, Xinyu
Liu, Feng
Chang, Yanchuan
Tanin, Egemen
Sarvi, Majid
Qi, Jianzhong
author_facet Su, Xinyu
Liu, Feng
Chang, Yanchuan
Tanin, Egemen
Sarvi, Majid
Qi, Jianzhong
contents Traffic forecasting is crucial for transportation systems optimisation. Current models minimise the mean forecasting errors, often favouring periodic events prevalent in the training data, while overlooking critical aperiodic ones like traffic incidents. To address this, we propose DualCast, a dual-branch framework that disentangles traffic signals into intrinsic spatial-temporal patterns and external environmental contexts, including aperiodic events. DualCast also employs a cross-time attention mechanism to capture high-order spatial-temporal relationships from both periodic and aperiodic patterns. DualCast is versatile. We integrate it with recent traffic forecasting models, consistently reducing their forecasting errors by up to 9.6% on multiple real datasets. Our source code is available at https://github.com/suzy0223/DualCast.
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spellingShingle DualCast: A Model to Disentangle Aperiodic Events from Traffic Series
Su, Xinyu
Liu, Feng
Chang, Yanchuan
Tanin, Egemen
Sarvi, Majid
Qi, Jianzhong
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Traffic forecasting is crucial for transportation systems optimisation. Current models minimise the mean forecasting errors, often favouring periodic events prevalent in the training data, while overlooking critical aperiodic ones like traffic incidents. To address this, we propose DualCast, a dual-branch framework that disentangles traffic signals into intrinsic spatial-temporal patterns and external environmental contexts, including aperiodic events. DualCast also employs a cross-time attention mechanism to capture high-order spatial-temporal relationships from both periodic and aperiodic patterns. DualCast is versatile. We integrate it with recent traffic forecasting models, consistently reducing their forecasting errors by up to 9.6% on multiple real datasets. Our source code is available at https://github.com/suzy0223/DualCast.
title DualCast: A Model to Disentangle Aperiodic Events from Traffic Series
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18286