B-TGAT: A Bi-directional Temporal Graph Attention Transformer for Clustering Multivariate Spatiotemporal Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13202v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:08:21 GMT
• Title: B-TGAT: A Bi-directional Temporal Graph Attention Transformer for Clustering Multivariate Spatiotemporal Data
• Authors: Francis Ndikum Nji, Vandana Janaja, Jianwu Wang,
• Abstract summary: We present a time-distributed hybrid U-Net autocoder that integrates a Bi-multidimensional Graph Attention Transformer (B-TGAT) to guide efficient temporal clustering.<n>The encoder and decoder are equipped with ConvLSTM2D modules that extract joint spatial-temporal features.<n> experiments show superior cluster separability, temporal stability, and alignment with known climate transitions compared to state-of-the-art baselines.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Clustering high-dimensional multivariate spatiotemporal climate data is challenging due to complex temporal dependencies, evolving spatial interactions, and non-stationary dynamics. Conventional clustering methods, including recurrent and convolutional models, often struggle to capture both local and global temporal relationships while preserving spatial context. We present a time-distributed hybrid U-Net autoencoder that integrates a Bi-directional Temporal Graph Attention Transformer (B-TGAT) to guide efficient temporal clustering of multidimensional spatiotemporal climate datasets. The encoder and decoder are equipped with ConvLSTM2D modules that extract joint spatial--temporal features by modeling localized dynamics and spatial correlations over time, and skip connections that preserve multiscale spatial details during feature compression and reconstruction. At the bottleneck, B-TGAT integrates graph-based spatial modeling with attention-driven temporal encoding, enabling adaptive weighting of temporal neighbors and capturing both short and long-range dependencies across regions. This architecture produces discriminative latent embeddings optimized for clustering. Experiments on three distinct spatiotemporal climate datasets demonstrate superior cluster separability, temporal stability, and alignment with known climate transitions compared to state-of-the-art baselines. The integration of ConvLSTM2D, U-Net skip connections, and B-TGAT enhances temporal clustering performance while providing interpretable insights into complex spatiotemporal variability, advancing both methodological development and climate science applications.

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