EasyST: A Simple Framework for Spatio-Temporal Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06748v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:40:01 GMT
• Title: EasyST: A Simple Framework for Spatio-Temporal Prediction
• Authors: Jiabin Tang, Wei Wei, Lianghao Xia, Chao Huang,
• Abstract summary: We propose a simple framework for spatial-temporal prediction - EasyST paradigm. It learns lightweight and robust Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) generalization by distilling knowledge from complex-temporal GNNs. EasyST surpasses state-of-the-art approaches in terms of efficiency and accuracy.
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• Abstract: Spatio-temporal prediction is a crucial research area in data-driven urban computing, with implications for transportation, public safety, and environmental monitoring. However, scalability and generalization challenges remain significant obstacles. Advanced models often rely on Graph Neural Networks to encode spatial and temporal correlations, but struggle with the increased complexity of large-scale datasets. The recursive GNN-based message passing schemes used in these models hinder their training and deployment in real-life urban sensing scenarios. Moreover, long-spanning large-scale spatio-temporal data introduce distribution shifts, necessitating improved generalization performance. To address these challenges, we propose a simple framework for spatio-temporal prediction - EasyST paradigm. It learns lightweight and robust Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) by effectively distilling knowledge from complex spatio-temporal GNNs. We ensure robust knowledge distillation by integrating the spatio-temporal information bottleneck with teacher-bounded regression loss, filtering out task-irrelevant noise and avoiding erroneous guidance. We further enhance the generalization ability of the student model by incorporating spatial and temporal prompts to provide downstream task contexts. Evaluation on three spatio-temporal datasets for urban computing tasks demonstrates that EasyST surpasses state-of-the-art approaches in terms of efficiency and accuracy. The implementation code is available at: https://github.com/HKUDS/EasyST.

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