Ctrip Technology

Nov 6, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How TripCast Uses Masked 2D Transformers to Revolutionize Travel Time-Series Forecasting

TripCast introduces a masked 2D transformer pre‑training framework that treats travel demand as a two‑dimensional time‑series problem, leveraging time‑patch tokenization, dual masking and RevIN normalization to achieve state‑of‑the‑art forecasting performance on massive real‑world travel data.