Cross-Modal Reconstruction Pretraining for Ramp Flow Prediction at Highway Interchanges

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Auteurs principaux: Li, Yongchao, Chen, Jun, Li, Zhuoxuan, Gao, Chao, Li, Yang, Zhang, Chu, Dong, Changyin
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author Li, Yongchao
Chen, Jun
Li, Zhuoxuan
Gao, Chao
Li, Yang
Zhang, Chu
Dong, Changyin
author_facet Li, Yongchao
Chen, Jun
Li, Zhuoxuan
Gao, Chao
Li, Yang
Zhang, Chu
Dong, Changyin
contents Interchanges are crucial nodes for vehicle transfers between highways, yet the lack of real-time ramp detectors creates blind spots in traffic prediction. To address this, we propose a Spatio-Temporal Decoupled Autoencoder (STDAE), a two-stage framework that leverages cross-modal reconstruction pretraining. In the first stage, STDAE reconstructs historical ramp flows from mainline data, forcing the model to capture intrinsic spatio-temporal relations. Its decoupled architecture with parallel spatial and temporal autoencoders efficiently extracts heterogeneous features. In the prediction stage, the learned representations are integrated with models such as GWNet to enhance accuracy. Experiments on three real-world interchange datasets show that STDAE-GWNET consistently outperforms thirteen state-of-the-art baselines and achieves performance comparable to models using historical ramp data. This demonstrates its effectiveness in overcoming detector scarcity and its plug-and-play potential for diverse forecasting pipelines.
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spellingShingle Cross-Modal Reconstruction Pretraining for Ramp Flow Prediction at Highway Interchanges
Li, Yongchao
Chen, Jun
Li, Zhuoxuan
Gao, Chao
Li, Yang
Zhang, Chu
Dong, Changyin
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Interchanges are crucial nodes for vehicle transfers between highways, yet the lack of real-time ramp detectors creates blind spots in traffic prediction. To address this, we propose a Spatio-Temporal Decoupled Autoencoder (STDAE), a two-stage framework that leverages cross-modal reconstruction pretraining. In the first stage, STDAE reconstructs historical ramp flows from mainline data, forcing the model to capture intrinsic spatio-temporal relations. Its decoupled architecture with parallel spatial and temporal autoencoders efficiently extracts heterogeneous features. In the prediction stage, the learned representations are integrated with models such as GWNet to enhance accuracy. Experiments on three real-world interchange datasets show that STDAE-GWNET consistently outperforms thirteen state-of-the-art baselines and achieves performance comparable to models using historical ramp data. This demonstrates its effectiveness in overcoming detector scarcity and its plug-and-play potential for diverse forecasting pipelines.
title Cross-Modal Reconstruction Pretraining for Ramp Flow Prediction at Highway Interchanges
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03381