Summary of Nrformer: Nationwide Nuclear Radiation Forecasting with Spatio-temporal Transformer, by Tengfei Lyu et al.
NRFormer: Nationwide Nuclear Radiation Forecasting with Spatio-Temporal Transformer
by Tengfei Lyu, Jindong Han, Hao Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The researchers develop a novel framework called NRFormer for predicting nationwide nuclear radiation variations. This task is challenging due to imbalanced monitoring station distributions and non-stationary radiation patterns. The model integrates three modules: a non-stationary temporal attention module, an imbalance-aware spatial attention module, and a radiation propagation prompting module. These modules collectively capture the complex spatio-temporal dynamics of nuclear radiation. The framework outperforms 11 baselines on two real-world datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Nuclear radiation can harm people and the environment. Scientists use monitoring technology to track radiation levels and weather conditions. This helps them create accurate forecasts for decision-making. However, it’s hard because some areas have more monitoring stations than others, and radiation patterns change over time. Researchers created a new model called NRFormer to predict nuclear radiation variations nationwide. It uses three special modules that work together to understand complex radiation patterns. The model did better than 11 other approaches on two real-world datasets. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Prompting
