PDFormer: Propagation Delay-Aware Dynamic Long-Range Transformer for Traffic Flow Prediction

As a core technology of Intelligent Transportation System, traffic flow prediction has a wide range of applications. The fundamental challenge in traffic flow prediction is to effectively model the complex spatial-temporal dependencies in traffic data. Spatial-temporal Graph Neural Network (GNN) models have emerged as one of the most promising methods to solve this problem. However, GNN-based models have three major limitations for traffic prediction: i) Most methods model spatial dependencies in a static manner, which limits the ability to learn dynamic urban traffic patterns; ii) Most methods only consider short-range spatial information and are unable to capture long-range spatial dependencies; iii) These…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 62222215, 82161148011, 72171013, 2019YFB2102100, 72222022
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  Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities