Causality Enhanced Origin-Destination Flow Prediction in Data-Scarce Cities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06398v1
• Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:36:36 GMT
• Title: Causality Enhanced Origin-Destination Flow Prediction in Data-Scarce Cities
• Authors: Tao Feng, Yunke Zhang, Huandong Wang, Yong Li,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel Causality-Enhanced OD Flow Prediction (CE-OFP) framework to transfer urban knowledge between cities.<n>The proposed CE-OFP remarkably outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, which can reduce the RMSE of OD flow prediction for data-scarce cities by up to 11%.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurate origin-destination (OD) flow prediction is of great importance to developing cities, as it can contribute to optimize urban structures and layouts. However, with the common issues of missing regional features and lacking OD flow data, it is quite daunting to predict OD flow in developing cities. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Causality-Enhanced OD Flow Prediction (CE-OFP), a unified framework that aims to transfer urban knowledge between cities and achieve accuracy improvements in OD flow predictions across data-scarce cities. In specific, we propose a novel reinforcement learning model to discover universal causalities among urban features in data-rich cities and build corresponding causal graphs. Then, we further build Causality-Enhanced Variational Auto-Encoder (CE-VAE) to incorporate causal graphs for effective feature reconstruction in data-scarce cities. Finally, with the reconstructed features, we devise a knowledge distillation method with a graph attention network to migrate the OD prediction model from data-rich cities to data-scare cities. Extensive experiments on two pairs of real-world datasets validate that the proposed CE-OFP remarkably outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, which can reduce the RMSE of OD flow prediction for data-scarce cities by up to 11%.

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