The paper introduces a spatio‑temporal traffic forecasting framework that fuses Graph Neural Networks with semantic knowledge from general-purpose knowledge graphs such as Wikidata. By generating embeddings that capture relationships like nearby points of interest, administrative hierarchies, and functional roles of locations, the framework creates additional adjacency matrices that enrich the sensor graph beyond physical connectivity. Experiments with established forecasting methods demonstrate that this external knowledge improves prediction accuracy and offers a path toward better interpretability.
By Mattis thor Straten, Yannick Wolker, Steffen Strohm, Prathvish Mithare, Ralf Krestel, Matthias Renz
The paper introduces DF-LLM, a Dynamic Fusion Large Language Model designed for traffic flow prediction. It combines a spatiotemporal embedding module, a fusion module that uses graph convolution to capture spatial topology and dynamic dependencies, and an LLM backbone with differentiated parameter adaptation and context aggregation attention. Experiments on four datasets show that DF-LLM outperforms existing methods in predictive accuracy.
The paper introduces DF-LLM, a Dynamic Fusion Large Language Model designed for traffic flow prediction. It combines a spatiotemporal embedding module, a fusion module that uses graph convolution to capture spatial topology and dynamic dependencies, and an LLM backbone with differentiated parameter adaptation and context aggregation attention. Experiments on four datasets demonstrate that DF-LLM outperforms existing methods in predictive accuracy.
By Xue Qiu, Jianli Xiao
arXiv:2607. 24885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting traffic flow is crucial to optimizing transportation systems and improving urban mobility.
By Jinpeng Chen, Ziyu Yu, Tao Wang, Jun Ma, Hongbo Gao, Senzhang Wang, Zufeng Zhang, Kaimin Wei
Traffic flow forecasting is essential to intelligent transportation systems. Large-scale traffic forecasting requires jointly modeling local spatial dependencies and cross-region context.Spatial depen...
Machine learning (ML) has become the dominant approach for network traffic classification, achieving very high predictive performance. However, a model is only valuable if it learns semantically meani...
The paper proposes a human-centered framework for validating the semantic soundness of machine learning models used in network traffic classification. It extends existing knowledge-generation methods by integrating data, models, explainability tools, visualizations, and expert reasoning to iteratively explore, verify, and refine model behavior and preprocessing steps. The framework is built on literature findings, benchmark analyses, XAI experience, and expert feedback, offering practical guidance for ensuring models learn trustworthy, semantically meaningful patterns rather than spurious correlations.
By Igor Cherepanov, David Sessler, Alex Ulmer, Thorsten May, J\"orn Kohlhammer
Traffic prediction is a core task in intelligent transportation systems, supporting applications such as adaptive signal control, route guidance, and ride-hailing dispatch. Deep learning models, including graph convolutional networks, recurrent networks, and Transformers, achieve strong results on standard benchmarks, but their architectures are designed by hand, requiring significant expert effort and producing models that often generalize poorly across cities and datasets.
The paper introduces LoReST, a Local-Region Spatial Temporal network designed for large-scale traffic forecasting. LoReST captures local spatial heterogeneity by relation-aware aggregation within node neighborhoods and incorporates cross-region context through mean pooling, inter-region attention, and broadcasting back to nodes. Experiments on the LargeST benchmark demonstrate significant improvements, reducing MAE, RMSE, and MAPE by 4.78%, 3.60%, and 5.75% respectively.
By Qi Feng, Zidong Wang, Bo Li, Xiaoguang Gao, Jiayu Zhang, Chenfeng Wang, Kaifang Wan
arXiv:2606. 09872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic forecasting is a fundamental component of intelligent transportation systems, yet remains challenging in real-world settings due to irregular sensor distributions and the high computational cost of modeling large-scale spatiotemporal dependencies.
By Jichao Li, Xuanming Shi
arXiv:2510. 14819v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Trajectory representation learning (TRL) aims to encode raw trajectory data into low-dimensional embeddings for downstream tasks such as travel time estimation, mobility prediction, and trajectory similarity analysis.
By Ji Cao, Yu Wang, Tongya Zheng, Jie Song, Qinghong Guo, Zujie Ren, Canghong Jin, Gang Chen, Mingli Song
arXiv:2608. 14177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep spatiotemporal models integrating graph convolutions and attention mechanisms have demonstrated excellent performance in network-level traffic flow prediction, owing to their exceptional ability to capture complex spatiotemporal dependencies.
By Xuanmian He, Can Li, Wanjing Ma