ORIGINAL RESEARCH
STAMGCN: A Spatio-Temporal Attention-Based
Multi-Graph Convolution Model for
Fine-Grained Air Quality Analysis
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College of Automation (College of Artificial Intelligence), Beijing Information Science and Technology University,
Beijing 102206, China
Submission date: 2025-08-14
Final revision date: 2025-10-15
Acceptance date: 2025-11-02
Online publication date: 2026-03-04
Corresponding author
Wenbai Chen
College of Automation (College of Artificial Intelligence), Beijing Information Science and Technology University,
Beijing 102206, China
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ABSTRACT
Air pollution poses significant global health challenges, underscoring the need for highly detailed
spatial predictions to inform effective environmental policy and safeguard public health. This study
introduces a novel Spatio-Temporal Attention-based Multi-Graph Convolutional Network (STAMGCN)
designed for fine-grained air quality prediction. The framework constructs spatial, atmospheric
pollution-pattern, and meteorological-pattern graphs to represent complex, non-Euclidean regional
relationships. Through graph convolutional networks, the model aggregates contextual information from
adjacent nodes, followed by a fine-grained attention mechanism that emphasizes interactions between
the target and nearby monitoring stations. By leveraging gated recurrent units with temporal attention,
STAMGCN effectively captures evolving air quality changes. Experiments conducted on the Beijing
dataset demonstrate that the model improves prediction accuracy by 10.18% for immediate forecasts
and 15.56% for 6-hour forecasts compared to baseline spatio-temporal models. These results highlight
the model’s potential to support urban air-quality management and provide a robust scientific foundation
for pollution-control strategies.