Spatiotemporal Learning on Cell-embedded Graphs
<|reference_start|>Spatiotemporal Learning on Cell-embedded Graphs: Data-driven simulation of physical systems has recently kindled significant attention, where many neural models have been developed. In particular, mesh-based graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant potential in predicting spatiotemporal dynamics across arbitrary geometric domains. However, the existing node-edge message passing mechanism in GNNs limits the model's representation learning ability. In this paper, we proposed a cell-embedded GNN model (aka CeGNN) to learn spatiotemporal dynamics with lifted performance. Specifically, we introduce a learnable cell attribution to the node-edge message passing process, which better captures the spatial dependency of regional features. Such a strategy essentially upgrades the local aggregation scheme from the first order (e.g., from edge to node) to a higher order (e.g., from volume to edge and then to node), which takes advantage of volumetric information in message passing. Meanwhile, a novel feature-enhanced block is designed to further improve the performance of CeGNN and relieve the over-smoothness problem, via treating the latent features as basis functions. The extensive experiments on various PDE systems and one real-world dataset demonstrate that CeGNN achieves superior performance compared with other baseline models, particularly reducing the prediction error with up to 1 orders of magnitude on several PDE systems.<|reference_end|>
@article{mi2024spatiotemporal,
    title={Spatiotemporal Learning on Cell-embedded Graphs},
    author={Yuan Mi, Hao Sun},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.18013},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.18013},
    primaryClass={cs.LG}
}