Summary of An Ensemble Framework For Explainable Geospatial Machine Learning Models, by Lingbo Liu
An Ensemble Framework for Explainable Geospatial Machine Learning Models
by Lingbo Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The recent advancements in integrating Geographically Weighted (GW) models with artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies offer novel approaches for analyzing spatially varying effects in geographic analysis. However, these methods often focus on single algorithms and emphasize prediction over interpretability. This paper proposes an ensemble framework that merges local spatial weighting schemes with Explainable AI (XAI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies to bridge the gap between geospatial ML and XAI. The proposed framework is verified through tests on synthetic datasets and comparisons with GWR, MGWR, and GeoShapley, enhancing interpretability and predictive accuracy by elucidating spatial variability. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about using special math and computer tools to understand how things are connected in different places. It’s hard to do this because the data gets more complicated and not easy to understand as you look at bigger areas. Some people have been trying to make better maps that show why things happen in certain places, but they mostly focus on guessing what will happen instead of explaining why it happens. This paper makes a new way to combine different tools to explain why things happen in different places. It works by looking at how the things are connected in small areas and then using that information to understand bigger areas. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning
