Recent studies have demonstrated the great success of graph convolutional networks in short-term traffic forecasting (e.g., 15–30 min ahead) tasks by capturing dependencies in road network structure. Based on these models, long-term forecasting can be achieved by two approaches: (1) recursively generating a one-step-ahead prediction and (2) adapting the models to sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) learning. However, in practice, these two approaches often show poor performance in long-term forecasting tasks. The recursive approach suffers from the error accumulation problem, as the model is trained based on one-step-ahead loss. On the other hand, seq2seq shows convergence issues that limit its application. To address the issues for long-term forecasting, in this paper, we propose a universal framework that directly transforms any existing state-of-the-art models for one-step-ahead prediction to achieve more accurate long-term forecasting. The proposed framework consists of two components—a base model and a bias block. The base model is assumed to be a well-trained state-of-the-art one-step-ahead forecasting model, and the bias block is constructed by a spatiotemporal graph neural network composed of gated temporal convolution layers and graph convolution layers. The base model and the bias block are residually-connected so that we can substantially reduce the training complexity. Extensive experiments are conducted on existing benchmark datasets. We experiment with several state-of-the-art models in the literature as base models, and our results demonstrate the ability of the proposed universal framework to greatly improve the long-term prediction accuracy for all models.


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    Title :

    A Universal Framework of Spatiotemporal Bias Block for Long-Term Traffic Forecasting


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    2022-10-01


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    Article (Journal)


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    Electronic Resource


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    English



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