Deep Inferential Spatial-Temporal Network for Forecasting Air Pollution Concentrations

Air pollution poses a serious threat to human health as well as economic development around the world. To meet the increasing demand for accurate predictions for air pollutions, we proposed a Deep Inferential Spatial-Temporal Network to deal with the complicated non-linear spatial and temporal correlations. We forecast three air pollutants (i.e., PM2.5, PM10 and O3) of monitoring stations over the next 48 hours, using a hybrid deep learning model consists of inferential predictor (inference for regions without air pollution readings), spatial predictor (capturing spatial correlations using CNN) and temporal predictor (capturing temporal relationship using sequence-to-sequence model with simplified attention mechanism). Our proposed model considers historical air pollution records and historical meteorological data. We evaluate our model on a large-scale dataset containing air pollution records of 35 monitoring stations and grid meteorological data in Beijing, China. Our model outperforms other state-of-art methods in terms of SMAPE and RMSE.

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