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Adaptive Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network for Traffic Forecasting

6 Jul 2020NeurIPS 2020 12arXiv:2007.02842archive 2025-07-28

Lei Bai, Lina Yao, Can Li, Xianzhi Wang, Can Wang

Modeling complex spatial and temporal correlations in the correlated time series data is indispensable for understanding the traffic dynamics and predicting the future status of an evolving traffic system. Recent works focus on designing complicated graph neural network architectures to capture shared patterns with the help of pre-defined graphs. In this paper, we argue that learning node-specific patterns is essential for traffic forecasting while the pre-defined graph is avoidable. To this end, we propose two adaptive modules for enhancing Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) with new capabilities: 1) a Node Adaptive Parameter Learning (NAPL) module to capture node-specific patterns; 2) a Data Adaptive Graph Generation (DAGG) module to infer the inter-dependencies among different traffic series automatically. We further propose an Adaptive Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network (AGCRN) to capture fine-grained spatial and temporal correlations in traffic series automatically based on the two modules and recurrent networks. Our experiments on two real-world traffic datasets show AGCRN outperforms state-of-the-art by a significant margin without pre-defined graphs about spatial connections.

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Graph GenerationGraph Neural NetworkMultivariate Time Series ForecastingSpatio-Temporal ForecastingTime SeriesTime Series AnalysisTime Series ForecastingTime Series PredictionTraffic PredictionWeather Forecasting

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Traffic Prediction BJTaxi AGCRN MAE @ in 12.30 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction BJTaxi AGCRN MAE @ out 12.38 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction BJTaxi AGCRN MAPE (%) @ in 15.61 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction BJTaxi AGCRN MAPE (%) @ out 15.75 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction EXPY-TKY AGCRN 1 step MAE 5.99 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction EXPY-TKY AGCRN 3 step MAE 6.68 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction EXPY-TKY AGCRN 6 step MAE 7.11 #6 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NE-BJ AGCRN 12 steps MAE 4.99 #6 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCBike1 AGCRN MAE @ in 5.17 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCBike1 AGCRN MAE @ out 5.47 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCBike1 AGCRN MAPE (%) @ in 25.59 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCBike1 AGCRN MAPE (%) @ out 26.63 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCBike2 AGCRN MAE @ in 5.18 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCBike2 AGCRN MAE @ out 4.79 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCBike2 AGCRN MAPE (%) @ in 27.14 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCBike2 AGCRN MAPE (%) @ out 26.17 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCTaxi AGCRN MAE @ in 12.13 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCTaxi AGCRN MAE @ out 9.87 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCTaxi AGCRN MAPE (%) @ in 18.78 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction NYCTaxi AGCRN MAPE (%) @ out 18.41 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Traffic Prediction PeMS04 AGCRN 12 Steps MAE 19.83 #11 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Weather Forecasting LA AGCRN MSE (t+1) 0.2289 ± 0.0327 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Weather Forecasting LA AGCRN MSE (t+6) 0.8412 ± 1.1162 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Weather Forecasting NOAA Atmospheric Temperature Dataset AGCRN MAE (t+1) 0.3019 ± 0.0374 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Weather Forecasting NOAA Atmospheric Temperature Dataset AGCRN MAE (t+10) 1.3755 ± 0.2732 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Weather Forecasting SD AGCRN MSE (t+1) 0.2010 ± 0.0188 #2 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Weather Forecasting SD AGCRN MSE (t+6) 1.0181 ± 0.1275 #2 of 10 Archive leaderboard report

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Graph Neural Network

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