Embracing Large Language Models in Traffic Flow Forecasting

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Main Authors: Zhao, Yusheng, Luo, Xiao, Wen, Haomin, Xiao, Zhiping, Ju, Wei, Zhang, Ming
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author Zhao, Yusheng
Luo, Xiao
Wen, Haomin
Xiao, Zhiping
Ju, Wei
Zhang, Ming
author_facet Zhao, Yusheng
Luo, Xiao
Wen, Haomin
Xiao, Zhiping
Ju, Wei
Zhang, Ming
contents Traffic flow forecasting aims to predict future traffic flows based on the historical traffic conditions and the road network. It is an important problem in intelligent transportation systems, with a plethora of methods been proposed. Existing efforts mainly focus on capturing and utilizing spatio-temporal dependencies to predict future traffic flows. Though promising, they fall short in adapting to test-time environmental changes of traffic conditions. To tackle this challenge, we propose to introduce large language models (LLMs) to help traffic flow forecasting and design a novel method named Large Language Model Enhanced Traffic Flow Predictor (LEAF). LEAF adopts two branches, capturing different spatio-temporal relations using graph and hypergraph structures respectively. The two branches are first pre-trained individually, and during test-time, they yield different predictions. Based on these predictions, a large language model is used to select the most likely result. Then, a ranking loss is applied as the learning objective to enhance the prediction ability of the two branches. Extensive experiments on several datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed LEAF.
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spellingShingle Embracing Large Language Models in Traffic Flow Forecasting
Zhao, Yusheng
Luo, Xiao
Wen, Haomin
Xiao, Zhiping
Ju, Wei
Zhang, Ming
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Traffic flow forecasting aims to predict future traffic flows based on the historical traffic conditions and the road network. It is an important problem in intelligent transportation systems, with a plethora of methods been proposed. Existing efforts mainly focus on capturing and utilizing spatio-temporal dependencies to predict future traffic flows. Though promising, they fall short in adapting to test-time environmental changes of traffic conditions. To tackle this challenge, we propose to introduce large language models (LLMs) to help traffic flow forecasting and design a novel method named Large Language Model Enhanced Traffic Flow Predictor (LEAF). LEAF adopts two branches, capturing different spatio-temporal relations using graph and hypergraph structures respectively. The two branches are first pre-trained individually, and during test-time, they yield different predictions. Based on these predictions, a large language model is used to select the most likely result. Then, a ranking loss is applied as the learning objective to enhance the prediction ability of the two branches. Extensive experiments on several datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed LEAF.
title Embracing Large Language Models in Traffic Flow Forecasting
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12201