MAIFormer: Multi-Agent Inverted Transformer for Flight Trajectory Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21004v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:59:29 GMT
• Title: MAIFormer: Multi-Agent Inverted Transformer for Flight Trajectory Prediction
• Authors: Seokbin Yoon, Keumjin Lee,
• Abstract summary: Multi-Agent Inverted Transformer, MAIFormer, is a novel neural architecture that predicts multi-agent flight trajectories.<n>We evaluate MAIFormer using a real-world automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast flight trajectory dataset.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Flight trajectory prediction for multiple aircraft is essential and provides critical insights into how aircraft navigate within current air traffic flows. However, predicting multi-agent flight trajectories is inherently challenging. One of the major difficulties is modeling both the individual aircraft behaviors over time and the complex interactions between flights. Generating explainable prediction outcomes is also a challenge. Therefore, we propose a Multi-Agent Inverted Transformer, MAIFormer, as a novel neural architecture that predicts multi-agent flight trajectories. The proposed framework features two key attention modules: (i) masked multivariate attention, which captures spatio-temporal patterns of individual aircraft, and (ii) agent attention, which models the social patterns among multiple agents in complex air traffic scenes. We evaluated MAIFormer using a real-world automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast flight trajectory dataset from the terminal airspace of Incheon International Airport in South Korea. The experimental results show that MAIFormer achieves the best performance across multiple metrics and outperforms other methods. In addition, MAIFormer produces prediction outcomes that are interpretable from a human perspective, which improves both the transparency of the model and its practical utility in air traffic control.

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