arxivcs.AI2026-07-14
Do We Really Need Transformers for Global Spatial Information Extraction in Traffic Forecasting?
Qihang Zhang, Siyao Zhang, Letao Kang, Wenzhe Liang, Miao Zhang, Zhao Zhang
Existing traffic forecasting models commonly focus on extracting spatial dependencies, particularly global spatial information, which characterizes the representations obtained through interactions between each individual node and all nodes across the traffic network. However, th…