# Spatial-Temporal Interactive Dynamic Graph Convolution Network for Traffic Forecasting

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08689 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.08689/

## Key facts

- Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 37 of its 73 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 18 May 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 37)

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- [Convolutional Neural Networks on Graphs with Fast Localized Spectral Filtering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.09375/) (2016)
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- [Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks: A Deep Learning Framework for Traffic Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.04875/) (2017)
- [Spectral Networks and Locally Connected Networks on Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1312.6203/) (2013)
- [Graph WaveNet for Deep Spatial-Temporal Graph Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.00121/) (2019)
- [Connecting the Dots: Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with Graph Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.11650/) (2020)
- [Adaptive Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network for Traffic Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.02842/) (2020)
- [Temporal Convolutional Networks for Action Segmentation and Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.05267/) (2016)
- [GMAN: A Graph Multi-Attention Network for Traffic Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.08415/) (2019)
- [T-GCN: A Temporal Graph ConvolutionalNetwork for Traffic Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.05320/) (2018)
- [SCINet: Time Series Modeling and Forecasting with Sample Convolution and Interaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09305/) (2021)
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- [Spectral Temporal Graph Neural Network for Multivariate Time-series Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.07719/) (2021)
- [Spatial-Temporal Fusion Graph Neural Networks for Traffic Flow Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.09641/) (2020)
- [Spatial-Temporal Graph ODE Networks for Traffic Flow Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.12931/) (2021)
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- [Deep Multi-View Spatial-Temporal Network for Taxi Demand Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.08714/) (2018)
- [Dynamic Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network for Traffic Prediction: Benchmark and Solution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.14917/) (2021)
- [Traffic Graph Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network: A Deep Learning Framework for Network-Scale Traffic Learning and Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.07007/) (2018)
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- [Spatial-Temporal Large Language Model for Traffic Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.10134/) (2024)
- [Learning Dynamic Graph Embeddings with Neural Controlled Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.11354/) (2023)
- [Weight-Space Linear Recurrent Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.01153/) (2025)
- [Permutation Equivariant Neural Controlled Differential Equations for Dynamic Graph Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.20324/) (2025)
- [Spatial-temporal traffic modeling with a fusion graph reconstructed by tensor decomposition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.05653/) (2022)
- [Spatiotemporal Forecasting Meets Efficiency: Causal Graph Process Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.18879/) (2024)
- [PIMCST: Physics-Informed Multi-Phase Consensus and Spatio-Temporal Few-Shot Learning for Traffic Flow Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.01936/) (2026)
- [Fusion Matrix Prompt Enhanced Self-Attention Spatial-Temporal Interactive Traffic Forecasting Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.09356/) (2024)
- [Incorporating Long-term Data in Training Short-term Traffic Prediction Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.14726/) (2024)
- [Neighbor-Sampling Based Momentum Stochastic Methods for Training Graph Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.00267/) (2025)
- [DyC-STG: Dynamic Causal Spatio-Temporal Graph Network for Real-time Data Credibility Analysis in IoT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.06483/) (2025)
- [DWAFM: Dynamic Weighted Graph Structure Embedding Integrated with Attention and Frequency-Domain MLPs for Traffic Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.00997/) (2026)
- [CIWI-CKT: Chaos-Informed Wave Interference Feature Fusion and Cross-City Knowledge Transfer for Traffic Flow Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.15642/) (2026)
- [INDEQS: Informed Neural controlled Differential EQuationS](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.19138/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Accurate traffic forecasting is essential for smart cities to achieve traffic control, route planning, and flow detection. Although many spatial-temporal methods are currently proposed, these methods are deficient in capturing the spatial-temporal dependence of traffic data synchronously. In addition, most of the methods ignore the dynamically changing correlations between road network nodes that arise as traffic data changes. We propose a neural network-based Spatial-Temporal Interactive Dynamic Graph Convolutional Network (STIDGCN) to address the above challenges for traffic forecasting. Specifically, we propose an interactive dynamic graph convolution structure, which divides the sequences at intervals and synchronously captures the traffic data's spatial-temporal dependence through an interactive learning strategy. The interactive learning strategy makes STIDGCN effective for long-term prediction. We also propose a novel dynamic graph convolution module to capture the dynamically changing correlations in the traffic network, consisting of a graph generator and fusion graph convolution. The dynamic graph convolution module can use the input traffic data and pre-defined graph structure to generate a graph structure. It is then fused with the defined adaptive adjacency matrix to generate a dynamic adjacency matrix, which fills the pre-defined graph structure and simulates the generation of dynamic associations between nodes in the road network. Extensive experiments on four real-world traffic flow datasets demonstrate that STIDGCN outperforms the state-of-the-art baseline.
