Dimensional Balance Improves Large Scale Spatiotemporal Prediction Performance

arXiv cs.LG Papers
spatiotemporal-prediction entropy dimensional-balance urban-traffic meteorology public-health low-rank-embedding machine-learning

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This paper proposes a framework that uses entropy-based diagnostics to harmonize spatial and temporal feature representations, achieving substantial accuracy gains on large-scale spatiotemporal prediction tasks across urban traffic, meteorology, and epidemic datasets.

arXiv:2605.18793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate spatiotemporal pattern analysis is critical in fields such as urban traffic, meteorology, and public health monitoring. However, existing methods face performance bottlenecks, typically yielding only incremental gains and often exhibiting limited cross-domain transferability. We analyze this bottleneck through spatial and temporal entropy measures, which are used as diagnostic indicators of spatiotemporal complexity mismatch rather than as guarantees that entropy alignment alone yields better forecasting. Empirically, larger mismatch is often accompanied by higher prediction uncertainty, especially under a fixed model-capacity budget. Guided by this diagnostic, we propose a scalable, adaptive framework that harmonizes spatial and temporal feature representations. Spatial dimensionality is compressed via low-rank matrix embedding to preserve essential structure, while an extended temporal horizon captures long-range dependencies and mitigates cumulative errors arising from temporal heterogeneity. Extensive experiments on urban traffic, meteorological, and epidemic datasets demonstrate substantial accuracy gains and broad applicability across the evaluated domains, suggesting that the framework is promising for a wide range of spatiotemporal tasks beyond the current study. The code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/ST-Balance/ST-Balance.
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# Dimensional Balance Improves Large Scale Spatiotemporal Prediction Performance
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> Abstract:Accurate spatiotemporal pattern analysis is critical in fields such as urban traffic, meteorology, and public health monitoring\. However, existing methods face performance bottlenecks, typically yielding only incremental gains and often exhibiting limited cross\-domain transferability\. We analyze this bottleneck through spatial and temporal entropy measures, which are used as diagnostic indicators of spatiotemporal complexity mismatch rather than as guarantees that entropy alignment alone yields better forecasting\. Empirically, larger mismatch is often accompanied by higher prediction uncertainty, especially under a fixed model\-capacity budget\. Guided by this diagnostic, we propose a scalable, adaptive framework that harmonizes spatial and temporal feature representations\. Spatial dimensionality is compressed via low\-rank matrix embedding to preserve essential structure, while an extended temporal horizon captures long\-range dependencies and mitigates cumulative errors arising from temporal heterogeneity\. Extensive experiments on urban traffic, meteorological, and epidemic datasets demonstrate substantial accuracy gains and broad applicability across the evaluated domains, suggesting that the framework is promising for a wide range of spatiotemporal tasks beyond the current study\. The code is available on GitHub at[this https URL](https://github.com/ST-Balance/ST-Balance)\.

## Submission history

From: Jing Chen \[[view email](https://arxiv.org/show-email/ea3a0d57/2605.18793)\] **\[v1\]**Mon, 11 May 2026 06:29:26 UTC \(26,055 KB\)

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