Gated Residual Recurrent Graph Neural Networks for Traffic Prediction

Authors

  • Cen Chen Hunan University
  • Kenli Li Hunan University
  • Sin G. Teo Institute for Infocomm Research
  • Xiaofeng Zou Hunan University
  • Kang Wang Hunan University
  • Jie Wang Institute for Infocomm Research
  • Zeng Zeng Institute for Infocomm Research

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301485

Abstract

Traffic prediction is of great importance to traffic management and public safety, and very challenging as it is affected by many complex factors, such as spatial dependency of complicated road networks and temporal dynamics, and many more. The factors make traffic prediction a challenging task due to the uncertainty and complexity of traffic states. In the literature, many research works have applied deep learning methods on traffic prediction problems combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which CNNs are utilized for spatial dependency and RNNs for temporal dynamics. However, such combinations cannot capture the connectivity and globality of traffic networks. In this paper, we first propose to adopt residual recurrent graph neural networks (Res-RGNN) that can capture graph-based spatial dependencies and temporal dynamics jointly. Due to gradient vanishing, RNNs are hard to capture periodic temporal correlations. Hence, we further propose a novel hop scheme into Res-RGNN to utilize the periodic temporal dependencies. Based on Res-RGNN and hop Res-RGNN, we finally propose a novel end-to-end multiple Res-RGNNs framework, referred to as “MRes-RGNN”, for traffic prediction. Experimental results on two traffic datasets have demonstrated that the proposed MRes-RGNN outperforms state-of-the-art methods significantly.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Chen, C., Li, K., Teo, S. G., Zou, X., Wang, K., Wang, J., & Zeng, Z. (2019). Gated Residual Recurrent Graph Neural Networks for Traffic Prediction. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 485-492. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.3301485

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AAAI Special Technical Track: AI for Social Impact