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Review of application analysis and research progress of deep learning in weather forecasting
Runting DONG, Li WU, Xiaoying WANG, Tengfei CAO, Jianqiang HUANG, Qin GUAN, Jiexia WU
Journal of Computer Applications    2023, 43 (6): 1958-1968.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2022050745
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With the advancement of technologies such as sensor networks and global positioning systems, the volume of meteorological data with both temporal and spatial characteristics has exploded, and the research on deep learning models for Spatiotemporal Sequence Forecasting (STSF) has developed rapidly. However, the traditional machine learning methods applied to weather forecasting for a long time have unsatisfactory effects in extracting the temporal correlations and spatial dependences of data, while the deep learning methods can extract features automatically through artificial neural networks to improve the accuracy of weather forecasting effectively, and have a very good effect in encoding long-term spatial information modeling. At the same time, the deep learning models driven by observational data and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models based on physical theories are combined to build hybrid models with higher prediction accuracy and longer prediction time. Based on these, the application analysis and research progress of deep learning in the field of weather forecasting were reviewed. Firstly, the deep learning problems in the field of weather forecasting and the classical deep learning problems were compared and studied from three aspects: data format, problem model and evaluation metrics. Then, the development history and application status of deep learning in the field of weather forecasting were looked back, and the latest progress in combining deep learning technologies with NWP was summarized and analyzed. Finally, the future development directions and research focuses were prospected to provide a certain reference for future deep learning research in the field of weather forecasting.

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Edge computing and service offloading algorithm based on improved deep reinforcement learning
Tengfei CAO, Yanliang LIU, Xiaoying WANG
Journal of Computer Applications    2023, 43 (5): 1543-1550.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2022050724
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To solve the problem of limited computing resources and storage space of edge nodes in the Edge Computing (EC) network, an Edge Computing and Service Offloading (ECSO) algorithm based on improved Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) was proposed to reduce node processing latency and improve service performance. Specifically, the problem of edge node service offloading was formulated as a resource-constrained Markov Decision Process (MDP). Due to the difficulty of predicting the request state transfer probability of the edge node accurately, DRL algorithm was used to solve the problem. Considering that the state action space of edge node for caching services is too large, by defining new action behaviors to replace the original actions, the optimal action set was obtained according to the proposed action selection algorithm, so that the process of calculating the action behavior reward was improved, thereby reducing the size of the action space greatly, and improving the training efficiency and reward of the algorithm. Simulation results show that compared with the original Deep Q-Network (DQN) algorithm, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm and traditional Most Popular (MP) algorithm, the total reward value of the proposed ECSO algorithm is increased by 7.0%, 12.7% and 65.6%, respectively, and the latency of edge node service offloading is reduced by 13.0%, 18.8% and 66.4%, respectively, which verifies the effectiveness of the proposed ECSO algorithm and shows that the ECSO can effectively improve the offloading performance of edge computing services.

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Heterogeneous hypernetwork representation learning method with hyperedge constraint
Keke WANG, Yu ZHU, Xiaoying WANG, Jianqiang HUANG, Tengfei CAO
Journal of Computer Applications    2023, 43 (12): 3654-3661.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2022121908
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Compared with ordinary networks, hypernetworks have complex tuple relationships, namely hyperedges. However, most existing network representation learning methods cannot capture the tuple relationships. To solve the above problem, a Heterogeneous hypernetwork Representation learning method with Hyperedge Constraint (HRHC) was proposed. Firstly, a method combining clique extension and star extension was introduced to transform the heterogeneous hypernetwork into the heterogeneous network. Then, the meta-path walk method that was aware of semantic relevance among the nodes was introduced to capture the semantic relationships among the heterogeneous nodes. Finally, the tuple relationships among the nodes were captured by means of the hyperedge constraint to obtain high-quality node representation vectors. Experimental results on three real-world datasets show that, for the link prediction task, the proposed method obtaines good results on drug, GPS and MovieLens datasets. For the hypernetwork reconstruction task, when the hyperedge reconstruction ratio is more than 0.6, the ACCuracy (ACC) of the proposed method is better than the suboptimal method Hyper2vec(biased 2nd order random walks in Hyper-networks), and the average ACC of the proposed method outperforms the suboptimal method, that is heterogeneous hypernetwork representation learning method with hyperedge constraint based on incidence graph (HRHC-incidence graph) by 15.6 percentage points on GPS dataset.

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Multi-site wind speed prediction based on graph dynamic attention network
Bolu LI, Li WU, Xiaoying WANG, Jianqiang HUANG, Tengfei CAO
Journal of Computer Applications    2023, 43 (11): 3616-3624.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2022111749
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The task of spatio-temporal sequence prediction has a wide range of applications in the fields such as transportation, meteorology and smart city. It is necessary to learn the spatio-temporal characteristics of different data with the combination of external factors such as precipitation and temperature when making station wind speed predictions, which is one of the main tasks in meteorological forecasting. The irregular distribution of meteorological stations and the inherent intermittency of the wind itself bring the challenge of achieving wind speed prediction with high accuracy. In order to consider the influence of multi-site spatial distribution on wind speed to obtain accurate and reliable prediction results, a Graph-based Dynamic Switch-Attention Network (Graph-DSAN) wind speed prediction model was proposed. Firstly, the distances between different sites were used to reconstruct the connection of them. Secondly, the process of local sampling was used to model adjacency matrices of different sampling sizes to achieve the aggregation and transmission of the information between neighbor nodes during the graph convolution process. Thirdly, the results of the graph convolution processed by Spatio-Temporal Position Encoding (STPE) were fed into the Dynamic Attention Encoder (DAE) and Switch-Attention Decoder (SAD) for dynamic attention computation to extract the spatio-temporal correlations. Finally, a multi-step prediction was formed by using autoregression. In experiments on wind speed prediction on 15 sites data in New York State, the designed model was compared with ConvLSTM, Graph Multi-Attention Network (GMAN), Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network (STGCN), Dynamic Switch-Attention Network (DSAN) and Spatial-Temporal Dynamic Network (STDN). The results show that the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 12 h prediction of Graph-DSAN model is reduced by 28.2%, 6.9%, 27.7%, 14.4% and 8.9% respectively, verifying the accuracy of Graph-DSAN in wind speed prediction.

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