geotransformer
GeoTransformer: Enhancing Urban Forecasting with Geospatial Attention Mechanisms
Jia, Yuhao, Wu, Zile, Yi, Shengao, Sun, Yifei
Recent advancements have focused on encoding urban spatial information into high-dimensional spaces, with notable efforts dedicated to integrating sociodemographic data and satellite imagery. These efforts have established foundational models in this field. However, the effective utilization of these spatial representations for urban forecasting applications remains under-explored. To address this gap, we introduce GeoTransformer, a novel structure that synergizes the Transformer architecture with geospatial statistics prior. GeoTransformer employs an innovative geospatial attention mechanism to incorporate extensive urban information and spatial dependencies into a unified predictive model. Specifically, we compute geospatial weighted attention scores between the target region and surrounding regions and leverage the integrated urban information for predictions. Extensive experiments on GDP and ride-share demand prediction tasks demonstrate that GeoTransformer significantly outperforms existing baseline models, showcasing its potential to enhance urban forecasting tasks.
- North America > United States > Illinois > Cook County > Chicago (0.04)
- North America > United States > Pennsylvania (0.04)
- North America > United States > Louisiana > Orleans Parish > New Orleans (0.04)
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- Transportation > Ground > Road (0.93)
- Banking & Finance > Economy (0.69)
- Transportation > Passenger (0.68)
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- Information Technology > Data Science > Data Mining (1.00)
- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Representation & Reasoning > Spatial Reasoning (1.00)
- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Natural Language (1.00)
- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Machine Learning > Neural Networks > Deep Learning (1.00)