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arXiv · August 10, 2026
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AirFlow is a proposed machine learning architecture for air quality forecasting that introduces pollutant-aware normalization and hierarchical dual-stream state modeling. The work reports improved performance metrics on real-world city data but is presented as an unreviewed preprint without validation in a peer-reviewed venue, clinical evidence, or prospective evaluation against established forecasting standards.
Preprint. Intervention: AirFlow: pollutant-aware dual-stream framework with statistic-guided normalization routing and hierarchical dual-stream state model. Compared with: State-of-the-art baseline (unnamed). Multiple cities (unspecified).
AirFlow achieves the best performance in 34 of 36 metrics comparisons Reductions of up to 11.11% root mean square error over state-of-the-art baseline Computational efficiency: 0.0483M parameters and 0.0215G FLOPs
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This is a machine learning architecture paper presenting a novel computational model for air quality forecasting without clinical validation, peer review, or comparison against established forecasting standards in a peer-reviewed venue.
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Accurate air quality forecasting is essential for public health and urban environmental management, but remains challenging because pollutant channels differ in periodicity and distribution drift, while their concentration trajectories contain both multi-scale dependencies and rapid changes. Recent methods have improved spatial dependency learning and meteorological covariate modeling. However, pollutant channels are still passed through the same normalization rule and temporal backbone, using a shared latent representation for channel-specific distributions and changes at different rates. To address this limitation, we propose AirFlow, a pollutant-aware dual-stream framework that operates on station multivariate observations without additional graph propagation or predefined signal decomposition. Specifically, AirFlow designs two novel blocks: (1) a statistic-guided normalization routing mechanism that selects a normalization path for each pollutant according to its 24-hour autocorrelation and distribution drift; and (2) a hierarchical dual-stream state model that combines multi-scale state space propagation with learnable response coefficients, where gated bidirectional cross-attention exchanges information and adaptively fuses the resulting representations. Experiments on real-world data from multiple cities show that AirFlow achieves the best performance in 34 of 36 metrics comparisons, with reductions of up to 11.11% root mean square error over the state-of-the-art baseline. AirFlow also requires only 0.0483M parameters and 0.0215G FLOPs, achieving high forecasting accuracy with low computational overhead.
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