Summary of Fedasta: Federated Adaptive Spatial-temporal Attention For Traffic Flow Prediction, by Kaiyuan Li et al.
FedASTA: Federated adaptive spatial-temporal attention for traffic flow prediction
by Kaiyuan Li, Yihan Zhang, Huandong Wang, Yan Zhuo, Xinlei Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel Federated Adaptive Spatial-Temporal Attention (FedASTA) framework for modeling dynamic spatial-temporal relations among nodes in distributed devices, addressing privacy concerns and data heterogeneity. The FedASTA framework consists of two components: client-side temporal relation extraction and server-side adaptive graph construction. On the client node, FedASTA decomposes time series data into temporal relations and trend patterns. Then, on the server node, it constructs an adaptive temporal-spatial aware graph that captures dynamic correlations between clients. The framework also incorporates a masked spatial attention module to model spatial dependencies among clients. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way for devices like smartphones and traffic sensors to share information without sharing personal data. It’s called Federated Learning (FL), and it’s used to train models on lots of different devices at the same time, without sharing the original data. This helps keep your data private while still getting useful insights from all that data. The paper also introduces a new way to connect all these devices together, using something called Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). This lets it learn about the relationships between all the devices and how they change over time. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Federated learning » Time series
