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ArticleScientific reports2025

FedGDAN: Privacy-preserving traffic flow prediction via federated graph diffusion attention networks.

Yuanhui Li, Bo Mi, Ran Zeng

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Yuanhui LiChongqing Jiaotong University, School of Traffic and Transportation, Chongqing, 400074, PR China.
Bo MiChongqing Jiaotong University, School of Information Science and Engineering, Chongqing, 400074, PR China.
Ran ZengChongqing Jiaotong University, School of Information Science and Engineering, Chongqing, 400074, PR China. 1029823815@qq.com.

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Abstract

Efficient data utilization and strong privacy protection are major challenges in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), particularly in complex environments with highly distributed Intelligent Connected Vehicles (ICVs). Conventional machine learning methods struggle to capture complex spatiotemporal dependencies while maintaining data privacy and locality. To overcome these limitations, we propose FedGDAN, a Federated Graph Diffusion Attention Network that combines graph neural networks (GNNs) with federated learning (FL) to enable collaborative traffic flow prediction without sharing raw data. FedGDAN models global spatiotemporal correlations across road networks and introduces an adaptive local aggregation mechanism to address non-independent and identically data distributions, thereby improving robustness and accuracy. Experiments on real-world datasets show that FedGDAN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art centralized and federated baselines, achieving 3%-10% gains in Mean Absolute Error.

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Federated learningGraph neural networkIntelligent transportation systemsPrivacyTraffic prediction

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