Graph Time-series Modeling in Deep Learning: A Survey
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Survey Papers
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3 Time-series and Graphs in Deep Learning: Individual Modeling
3.1 Time-series Encoding in Deep Learning
3.2 Graph Modeling in Deep Learning
3.2.1 Node Embedding.
3.2.2 Representative Graph Neural Networks.
4 Preliminaries and Definitions
Notations | Descriptions | Notations | Descriptions | Notations | Descriptions |
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X | a tensor | c | number of channels | \(\boldsymbol {\mathrm{D}}\) | degree matrix |
\(\boldsymbol {\mathrm{X}}, \boldsymbol {\mathrm{W}}\) | matrices | d | number of features or variates | \(\boldsymbol {\mathrm{L}}\) | Laplacian matrix |
\(\mathbf {\theta }, \mathbf {a}, \mathbf {b}\) | parameter vectors | \(\alpha\) | attention scores | l | number of layers |
\(\theta , \psi\) | parameter scalar values | \(\mathcal {G}\) | a series of graphs | \(\Vert\) | concatenation operator |
T | length of time-series | \(G=(V, E)\) | a graph, its node set and edge set | \(|\cdot |\) | cardinality operator |
w | lookback window size | \(N =|V|\) | number of nodes | \(\odot\) | Hadamard product |
\(\tau\) | future horizon | \(\Gamma (v)\) | neighbor node set of v | \(f_{FC}, f_{EMB}, f_{CONV}\) | neural network functions |
\(\mathbf {h}, \boldsymbol {\mathrm{H}}\) | hidden states | \(\boldsymbol {\mathrm{A}}\) | adjacency matrix | \(f_{LSTM}, f_{GRU}, g\) | neural network modules |
4.1 Fundamental Computations in Neural Networks
4.2 Problem Definitions
5 Deep Graph Time-series Modeling
Years | Graph Recurrent/Convolutional Neural Networks | Graph Attention Neural Networks |
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2018 or before | GCRN [69], DCRNN [51], STGCN [90] | GaAN [92] |
2019 | Graph WaveNet [83], T-GCN [100], LRGCN [46] | ASTGCN [26] |
2020 | MTGNN [82], DGSL [70] | MTAD-GAT [98], STAG-GCN [57] |
STGNN [79], Cola-GNN [19], ST-GRAT [66] | ||
2021 | FC-GAGA [62], Radflow [75] | GDN [18], StemGNN [8] |
STFGNN [47], Z-GCNET [12], TStream [11] | ||
2022 | VGCRN [10], GRIN [13], RGSL [91], GANF [16] | GReLeN [95], FuSAGNet [29], THGNN [85] |
ESG [88] |
5.1 Graph Recurrent/Convolutional Neural Networks
Categories | Models | Time-series | Propagation | Graph Types | Evolving Graphs | ||||||
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RNN | CNN | Gates | GCN | Diffusion | Gates | Spatial | Temporal | Semantic | |||
RNN-based Graph Time-series Modeling (Section 5.1.1) | GCRN [69] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||||
DCRNN [51] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||||||
T-GCN [100] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||||||
DGSL [70] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||||||
VGCRN [10] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||||||
GANF [16] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||||||
GRIN [13] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||||||
CNN-based Graph Time-series Modeling (Section 5.1.2) | STGCN [90] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||||
G-WaveNet [83] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||||
MTGNN [82] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||||||
Models with Self-derived Graphs (Section 5.1.3) | FC-GAGA [62] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||||
STFGNN [47] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||||
RGSL [91] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||||
Models with Evolving Graphs (Section 5.1.4) | Radflow [75] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||||
TStream [11] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||||
LRGCN [46] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||||
Z-GCNET [12] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||||
ESG [88] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) |
5.1.1 RNN-based Time-series Modeling.
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5.1.2 CNN-based Time-series Modeling.
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5.1.3 Models with Self-derived Graphs.
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5.1.4 Models with Evolving Graphs.
5.2 Graph Attention Neural Networks
Categories | Models | Attention types | Tasks | ||||
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Spatial/Graph | Temporal | General | Classification | Regression | Anomaly Detection | ||
Attention for Forecasting (Section 5.2.1) | GaAN [92] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||
Cola-GNN [19] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||
ASTGCN [26] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||
STAG-GCN [57] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||
STGNN [79] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||
StemGNN [8] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||
Radflow [75] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||
ST-GRAT [66] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||
THGNN [85] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||
Attention for Anomaly Detection (Section 5.2.2) | MTAD-GAT [98] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | ||||
GDN [18] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||
GReLeN [95] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) | |||||
FuSAGNet [29] | \(\checkmark\) | \(\checkmark\) |
5.2.1 Attention for Forecasting.
5.2.2 Attention for Anomaly Detection.
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6 Representational Components
6.1 Gated Mechanisms
6.2 Skip Connections
6.3 Model Interpretability
7 Applications and Datasets
7.1 Regression Model Performance Comparison on Traffic Forecasting
Data | Models | 3 step ahead | 6 steps ahead | 12 steps ahead | ||||||
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MAE | RMSE | MAPE | MAE | RMSE | MAPE | MAE | RMSE | MAPE | ||
METR-LA | STGCN [90] | 2.88 | 5.74 | \(7.6\%\) | 3.47 | 7.24 | \(9.6\%\) | 4.59 | 9.40 | \(12.7\%\) |
DCRNN [51] | 2.77 | 5.38 | \(7.3\%\) | 3.15 | 6.45 | \(8.8\%\) | 3.60 | 7.59 | \(10.5\%\) | |
FC-GAGA [62] | 2.75 | 5.34 | \(7.3\%\) | 3.10 | 6.30 | \(8.6\%\) | 3.51 | 7.31 | \(10.1\%\) | |
GaAN [92] | 2.71 | 5.25 | \(7.0\%\) | 3.12 | 6.36 | \(8.6\%\) | 3.64 | 7.65 | \(10.6\%\) | |
Graph WaveNet [83] | 2.69 | 5.15 | \(6.9\%\) | 3.07 | 6.22 | \(8.4\%\) | 3.53 | 7.37 | \(10.0\%\) | |
MTGNN [82] | 2.69 | 5.18 | \(6.9\%\) | 3.05 | 6.17 | \(8.2\%\) | 3.49 | 7.23 | \(9.9\%\) | |
ST-GRAT [66] | 2.60 | 5.07 | \(6.6\%\) | 3.01 | 6.21 | \(8.2\%\) | 3.49 | 7.42 | \(10.0\%\) | |
StemGNN [8] | \({2.56}\) | 5.06 | \({6.5\%}\) | 3.01 | 6.03 | \(8.2\%\) | \({3.43}\) | 7.23 | \({9.6\%}\) | |
STGNN [79] | 2.62 | \({4.99}\) | \(6.6\%\) | \({2.98}\) | \({5.88}\) | \({7.8\%}\) | 3.49 | \({6.94}\) | \(9.7\%\) | |
(best) DGSL [70] | \(\mathbf {2.39}\) | \(\mathbf {4.41}\) | \(\mathbf {6.0\%}\) | \(\mathbf {2.65}\) | \(\mathbf {5.06}\) | \(\mathbf {7.0\%}\) | \(\mathbf {2.99}\) | \(\mathbf {5.85}\) | \(\mathbf { 8.3\%}\) | |
PEMS-BAY | DCRNN [51] | 1.38 | 2.95 | \(2.9\%\) | 1.74 | 3.97 | \(3.9\%\) | 2.07 | 4.74 | \(4.9\%\) |
STGCN [90] | 1.36 | 2.96 | \(2.9\%\) | 1.81 | 4.27 | \(4.2\%\) | 2.49 | 5.69 | \(5.8\%\) | |
FC-GAGA [62] | 1.36 | 2.86 | \(2.9\%\) | 1.68 | 3.80 | \(3.8\%\) | 1.97 | 4.52 | \(4.7\%\) | |
MTGNN [82] | 1.32 | 2.79 | \(2.8\%\) | 1.65 | 3.74 | \(3.7\%\) | 1.94 | 4.49 | \(4.5\%\) | |
Graph WaveNet [83] | 1.30 | 2.74 | \({2.7\%}\) | 1.63 | 3.70 | \(3.7\%\) | 1.95 | 4.52 | \(4.6\%\) | |
ST-GRAT [66] | \({1.29}\) | 2.71 | \({2.7\%}\) | \({1.61}\) | 3.69 | \({3.6\%}\) | 1.95 | 4.54 | \(4.6\%\) | |
DGSL [70] | 1.32 | \({2.62}\) | \(2.8\%\) | 1.64 | \({3.41}\) | \({3.6\%}\) | \({1.91}\) | \(\mathbf {3.97}\) | \({4.4\%}\) | |
(best) STGNN [79] | \(\mathbf {1.17}\) | \(\mathbf {2.43}\) | \(\mathbf {2.3\%}\) | \(\mathbf {1.46}\) | \(\mathbf {3.27}\) | \(\mathbf {3.1\%}\) | \(\mathbf {1.83}\) | \({4.20}\) | \(\mathbf {4.2\%}\) |
7.2 Anomaly Detection Model Performance Comparison on Water Treatment
Data | Models | Precision | Recall | F1 |
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SWAT | MTAD-GAT [98] | 21.0 | 64.5 | 31.7 |
GDN [18] | \(\mathbf {99.4}\) | 68.1 | 80.8 | |
FuSAGNet [29] | \({98.8}\) | \({72.6}\) | \({83.7}\) | |
GReLeN [95] | 95.6 | \(\mathbf {83.5}\) | \(\mathbf {89.1}\) | |
WADI | MTAD-GAT [98] | 11.7 | 30.6 | 17.0 |
GDN [18] | \(\mathbf {97.5}\) | 40.2 | 57.0 | |
FuSAGNet [29] | \({83.0}\) | \({47.9}\) | \({60.7}\) | |
GReLeN [95] | 77.3 | \(\mathbf {61.3}\) | \(\mathbf {68.2}\) |
7.3 Data Challenges
7.3.1 Irregular Time-series.
7.3.2 Irregular Graph Structures.
7.4 Other Applications and Datasets
8 Future Directions
9 Conclusion
A Neural Network Functions
B Graph Time-series Models in Detail
B.1 GCRN
B.2 FC-GAGA
B.3 Radflow
C Experimental Setup
C.1 Data Preprocessing
C.2 Distance-based Graph Construction
C.3 Time-series Similarity/Coefficient Metrics
C.4 Loss Functions and Metrics
C.5 Other Functions
D Public Resources: Code and Data
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- Graph Time-series Modeling in Deep Learning: A Survey
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