High-accuracy air pollution prediction is crucial for environmental management and public health protection. To address the issues of spatiotemporal heterogeneity and multi-feature coupling in prediction tasks, this paper proposes a Multi- Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Graph Convolutional Network (MD-STDGCN). The model aims to precisely capture the specific temporal patterns of local pollutant emissions and the dynamic interactions of cross-regional pollutant transport. The model first employs a dual-path self-supervised masked pretraining strategy for feature enhancement. The temporal path improves the ability to extract temporal features through local subsequence reconstruction, while the spatial path captures spatial heterogeneity via node sequence reconstruction. This mitigates the issue of representation degradation caused by distribution shift and heterogeneity. Second, the model introduces a multi-level residual decomposition and hierarchical prediction framework to progressively extract global temporal patterns, local spatiotemporal patterns, and short-term disturbances from the spatiotemporal series. The framework integrates channel-independent convolutions and multi-scale causal temporal attention for long-term trend modeling, an adaptive weight gating with dynamic graph convolution for directional and lagged transport, and GRUs for short-term fluctuations. Finally, multi-branch predictions are fused with dual-path enhanced representations to achieve end-to-end multi-step forecasting. Experimental results show that MD-STDGCN outperforms all baseline models with significant improvements in prediction accuracy across all datasets: on KnowAir, Yangtze River Delta, and KnowAir_V2, the average MAE is reduced by 7.34%、1.88% and 12.57%, and the RMSE is reduced by 7.64%、2.44% and 11.29%, respectively. By leveraging dual-path feature enhancement, multi-level decoupling, and dynamic graph learning, MD-STDGCN effectively alleviates the impact of feature entanglement and heterogeneity, improving both prediction accuracy and robustness. It can provide reliable support for air quality monitoring and governance decision-making.25(01): 7-11+16.
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