Summary of On the Use Of Adversarial Validation For Quantifying Dissimilarity in Geospatial Machine Learning Prediction, by Yanwen Wang et al.
On the use of adversarial validation for quantifying dissimilarity in geospatial machine learning prediction
by Yanwen Wang, Mahdi Khodadadzadeh, Raul Zurita-Milla
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 method, dissimilarity quantification by adversarial validation (DAV), aims to address the issue of inaccurate model evaluation in geospatial machine learning due to dissimilarities between sample data and prediction locations. The DAV approach uses adversarial validation to check whether sample data and prediction locations can be separated with a binary classifier, providing a quantitative measure of dissimilarity from 0 to 100%. Experimental results on synthetic and real datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of DAV in quantifying dissimilarity across various values. Furthermore, the study highlights the impact of dissimilarity on cross-validation (CV) methods’ evaluations, showing that random CV method provides the most accurate results when dissimilarity is low, while geospatial CV methods become more accurate as dissimilarity increases. This research underscores the importance of considering feature space dissimilarity in geospatial machine learning predictions and suggests suitable CV methods for evaluating predictions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper studies how to evaluate models correctly in geospatial machine learning. Right now, it’s hard to get good results because the data used to train the model is different from the places where you actually make predictions. The authors propose a new way to measure this difference, called dissimilarity quantification by adversarial validation (DAV). They test DAV on some datasets and show that it works well. Then they compare how different evaluation methods perform when there’s little or big difference between the training data and prediction locations. They find that when the difference is small, a simple random method works best. But when the difference is big, more advanced geospatial methods are better. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning
