33 accepted papers
Multivariate time series (MTS) forecasting critically depends on modeling inter-variable dependencies, yet existing paradigms face a trade-off: channel-isolation strategies can suffer from information fragmentation in strongly coupled systems, whereas channel-interaction methods often introduce spur…
Modern spatio-temporal learning techniques usually exploit sampled discrete observations to foresee the future. Actually, spatio-temporal dynamics are continuous and evolve everytime and everywhere, thus modeling spatio-temporal dynamics in a continuous space can be long-standing challenge. Existin…
Molecular interactions are a common phenomenon in physical chemistry field, which could produce unexpected biochemical properties harmful to humans, such as drug-drug interactions. Machine learning has the potential to deliver rapid and accurate predictions. However, the complexity of molecular stru…
Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a critical tool for identifying molecular structures. By efficiently separating molecular fragments based on their mass-to-charge (m/z) ratios, it facilitates molecular generation and subsequent scientific discoveries. However, de novo molecular generation from MS
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have advanced graph classification, yet they remain vulnerable to graph-level imbalance, encompassing class imbalance and topological imbalance. To address both types of imbalance in a unified manner, we propose UniImb, a Unified framework for Imbalanced graph classifica…
While existing multivariate time series forecasting models have advanced significantly in modeling periodicity, they largely neglect the periodic heterogeneity common in real-world data, where variables exhibit distinct and dynamically changing periods. To effectively capture this periodic heterogen…
Accurate weather forecasting is crucial for climate research, disaster mitigation, and societal planning. Despite recent progress with deep learning, global atmospheric data remain uniquely challenging since weather dynamics evolve across heterogeneous spatial and temporal scales ranging from planet…
Current mainstream research in multivariate time series (MTS) prediction often assumes that all data is static. However, real-world MTS data typically arrives continuously in a streaming manner, which we refer to as streaming MTS. The statistical characteristics and spatiotemporal graph topology of
Text-to-image generation tasks have driven remarkable advances in diverse media applications, yet most focus on single-turn scenarios and struggle with iterative, multi-turn creative tasks. Recent dialogue-based systems attempt to bridge this gap, but their single-agent, sequential paradigm often ca
Graph classification is a critical task in analyzing graph data, with applications across various domains. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable results, their ability to generalize across graphs of varying scales remains a challenge. Conventional models often perform well on l
Air quality prediction plays a crucial role in the development of smart cities, garnering significant attention from both academia and industry. Current air quality prediction models encounter two major limitations: their high computational complexity limits scalability to nationwide datasets, and t
The out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization challenge is a longstanding problem in graph learning. Through studying the fundamental cause of data distribution shift, i.e., the changes of environments, significant progress has been achieved in addressing this issue. However, we observe that existin…
Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) aims to predict future trends based on historical data. While longer lookback windows theoretically offer more comprehensive insights, Transformer-based models often struggle with them. On one hand, longer windows introduce more noise and redundancy, hinderin…
Visual pattern recognition usually plays important roles in robotics and automation society where the pattern recognition relies on representation learning. Existing representation learning often neglects two important issues, the diversity of intra-class representation and under-exploited label uti
The effectiveness of Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks (STGNNs) critically hinges on the quality of the underlying graph topology. While end-to-end adaptive graph learning methods have demonstrated promising results in capturing latent spatiotemporal dependencies, they often suffer from high comp…
Time series forecasting is a critical and complex task, characterized by diverse temporal patterns, varying statistical properties, and different prediction horizons across datasets and domains. Conventional approaches typically rely on a single, unified model architecture to handle all forecasting…
The stable periodic patterns present in the time series data serve as the foundation for long-term forecasting. However, existing models suffer from limitations such as continuous and chaotic input partitioning, as well as weak inductive biases, which restrict their ability to capture such recurring…
Dynamic graphs are ubiquitous in the real world, presenting the temporal evolution of individuals within spatial associations. Recently, dynamic graph learning research is flourishing, striving to more effectively capture evolutionary patterns and spatial correlations. However, existing methods stil
Recently, spatiotemporal graph convolutional networks have achieved dominant performance in spatiotemporal prediction tasks. However, most models relying on node-to-node messaging interaction exhibit sensitivity to spatiotemporal shifts, encountering out-of-distribution (OOD) challenges. To address…
Discovering regularities from spatiotemporal systems can benefit various scientific and social planning. Current spatiotemporal learners usually train an independent model from a specific source data that leads to limited transferability among sources, where even correlated tasks requires new design…
Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) has traditionally relied on large parameters to capture extended temporal dependencies, resulting in substantial computational costs and inefficiencies in both memory usage and processing time. However, time series data, unlike high-dimensional images or te…
Efficiently modeling spatio-temporal (ST) physical processes and observations presents a challenging problem for the deep learning community. Many recent studies have concentrated on meticulously reconciling various advantages, leading to designed models that are neither simple nor practical. To add…
Spatiotemporal learning has become a pivotal technique to enable urban intelligence. Traditional spatiotemporal models mostly focus on a specific task by assuming a same distribution between training and testing sets. However, given that urban systems are usually dynamic, multi-sourced with imbalanc…
Multivariate time series (MTS) prediction has been widely adopted in various scenarios. Recently, some methods have employed patching to enhance local semantics and improve model performance. However, length-fixed patch are prone to losing temporal boundary information, such as complete peaks and pe…
Out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization issue is a well-known challenge within deep learning tasks. In dynamic graphs, the change of temporal environments is regarded as the main cause of data distribution shift. While numerous OOD studies focusing on environment factors have achieved remarkable pe…
Time series forecasting (TSF) plays a pivotal role in many real-world applications. Recently, the utilization of Large Language Models (LLM) in TSF has demonstrated exceptional predictive performance, surpassing most task-specific forecasting models. The success of LLM-based forecasting methods unde…
Traffic prediction plays a key role in various smart city applications, which can help traffic managers make traffic plans in advance, assist online ride-hailing companies in deploying vehicles reasonably, and provide early warning of congestion for safety authorities. While increasingly complex mod…
One of the most important tasks in ride-hailing is order dispatching, i.e., assigning unserved orders to available drivers. Recent order dispatching has achieved a significant improvement due to the advance of reinforcement learning, which has been approved to be able to effectively address sequenti…
With the progress of urban transportation systems, a significant amount of high-quality traffic data is continuously collected through streaming manners, which has propelled the prosperity of the field of spatial-temporal graph prediction. In this paper, rather than solely focusing on designing pow…
Trajectory modeling refers to characterizing human movement behavior, serving as a pivotal step in understanding mobility patterns. Nevertheless, existing studies typically ignore the confounding effects of geospatial context, leading to the acquisition of spurious correlations and limited generaliz…
Recently, multivariate time series (MTS) forecasting techniques have seen rapid development and widespread applications across various fields. Transformer-based and GNN-based methods have shown promising potential due to their strong ability to model interaction of time and variables. However, by co…
Spatio-Temporal Graph (STG) forecasting is a fundamental task in many real-world applications. Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks have emerged as the most popular method for STG forecasting, but they often struggle with temporal out-of-distribution (OoD) issues and dynamic spatial causation. In t…
Dynamic graphs are ubiquitous across disciplines where observations usually change over time. Regressions on dynamic graphs often contribute to diverse critical tasks, such as climate early-warning and traffic controlling. Existing homophily Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) adopt physical connections or…