Summary of Physics-guided Active Sample Reweighting For Urban Flow Prediction, by Wei Jiang et al.
Physics-guided Active Sample Reweighting for Urban Flow Prediction
by Wei Jiang, Tong Chen, Guanhua Ye, Wentao Zhang, Lizhen Cui, Zi Huang, Hongzhi Yin
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jul 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 paper proposes a novel approach to urban flow prediction, which is crucial for optimizing transportation services like buses and ride-sharing. Current data-driven models oversimplify the dynamics of real-world urban flows, leading to suboptimal predictions. The authors draw inspiration from physics-guided machine learning (PGML), which incorporates nuanced physical laws into spatio-temporal prediction solutions. However, PGML methods assume complete conformity between observed data and physical systems, which is often unrealistic in urban flow prediction tasks due to incomplete, sparse, and noisy data. To overcome these challenges, the authors develop a discretized physics-guided network (PN) and propose Physics-guided Active Sample Reweighting (P-GASR) as a data-aware framework to enhance PN. Experimental results on four real-world datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance with improved robustness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper tries to improve the way we predict how well transportation services like buses will do in different cities. Right now, these predictions are not very good because they don’t take into account all the things that affect how well the service does. The authors want to use some ideas from physics to make their predictions better. They think that by using some physical laws and principles, they can make their predictions more accurate and easier to understand. But there’s a problem: the data they have is often incomplete, noisy, or just plain wrong. To fix this, they come up with a new way of combining some physics ideas with machine learning. They test it on real cities and find that it works really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
