Summary of Efficient Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Regression For Spatial-temporal Air Quality Sensor Fusion, by Keivan Faghih Niresi et al.
Efficient Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Regression for Spatial-Temporal Air Quality Sensor Fusion
by Keivan Faghih Niresi, Ismail Nejjar, Olga Fink
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed novel unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) method tackles the challenge of calibrating affordable Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for air pollution monitoring in uncontrolled environments. The scarcity of labeled data from expensive reference sensors hinders reliable pollutant measurements across different locations due to domain shifts. Leveraging Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), our approach incorporates spatial-temporal graph neural networks (STGNNs) to model relationships between sensors, capturing critical spatial-temporal interactions. To handle larger embeddings, we propose a closed-form solution inspired by the Tikhonov-regularized least-squares problem, aligning subspaces between source and target domains. This enables low-cost IoT sensors to learn calibration parameters from expensive reference sensors, facilitating reliable pollutant measurements in new locations without additional costly equipment. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Air pollution monitoring sensors are becoming more affordable and widely used. However, it’s hard to make sure they’re working correctly outside of controlled environments. One way to check is by comparing them to more accurate but expensive sensors. But even with these better sensors, there just aren’t enough data points to train machine learning models that can accurately measure pollution levels in different locations. This paper proposes a new method for adapting these models to work well in different places without needing more data from the better sensors. It does this by using special types of neural networks that understand relationships between sensors and how they change over time. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Domain adaptation » Machine learning » Unsupervised
