Journal of Beijing Normal University, Volume. 61, Issue 3, 293(2025)
Time series data forecasting method based on spatio-temporal dimensions reconstruction
To address insufficient modeling of inter-variable dependencies and suboptimal adaptation to spatiotemporal dynamics in multivariate time series forecasting, this paper proposes a Transformer network, STARFormer, incorporating spatiotemporal dimension reconstruction. This approach utilizes a segmented encoding mechanism that transforms single-dimensional temporal information into 2D vector matrices through dimension inversion. A dual-phase attention architecture is developed to hierarchically capture cross-temporal and cross-dimensional dependencies, effectively strengthening temporal representation learning. Further, this work introduces a dynamic graph module to model evolving dependencies between temporal patterns and spatial structures. Experimental evaluations across five real-world datasets demonstrate that STARFormer outperforms state-of-the-art Transformer-based models in multivariate forecasting tasks.
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JIANG Shan, CHANG Le, YIN Lu. Time series data forecasting method based on spatio-temporal dimensions reconstruction[J]. Journal of Beijing Normal University, 2025, 61(3): 293
Received: Apr. 9, 2025
Accepted: Aug. 21, 2025
Published Online: Aug. 21, 2025
The Author Email: YIN Lu (yinlu@cdut.edu.cn)