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A Universal Pre-Training and Prompting Framework for General Urban Spatio-Temporal Prediction

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Urban spatio-temporal prediction is crucial for informed decision-making, such as traffic management, resource optimization, and emergency response. Despite remarkable breakthroughs in pretrained natural language models that enable one model to handle diverse tasks, a universal solution for spatio-temporal prediction remains challenging. Existing prediction approaches are typically tailored for specific spatio-temporal scenarios, requiring task-specific model designs and extensive domain-specific training data. In this study, we introduce UniST, a universal model designed for general urban spatio-temporal prediction across a wide range of scenarios. Inspired by large language models, UniST achieves success through: (i) utilizing diverse spatio-temporal data from different scenarios, (ii) effective pre-training to capture complex spatio-temporal dynamics, (iii) knowledge-guided prompts to enhance generalization capabilities. These designs together unlock the potential of building a universal model for various scenarios. Extensive experiments on more than 20 spatio-temporal scenarios, including grid-based data and graph-based data, demonstrate UniST’s efficacy in advancing state-of-the-art performance, especially in few-shot and zero-shot prediction.

Data modelsPredictive modelsUrban areasTrainingAdaptation modelsFoundation modelsTraining dataTransformersThree-dimensional displaysTensors

Yuan Yuan、Jingtao Ding、Jie Feng、Depeng Jin、Yong Li

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Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2025

IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering

IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering

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年,卷(期):2025.37(5)
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