比较生成式移动模型公平性,发现越准的模型越可能放大地域不公。
Comparing Fairness of Generative Mobility Models
- 用共通通勤部分(CPC)和人口均等性衡量模型生成轨迹的效用与公平性。
- 传统引力与辐射模型更公平,深度引力模型准确率更高但加剧了区域偏见。
- 适合关注城市规划、算法伦理的研究者,警示高精度模型的隐性歧视风险。
本文探讨生成式移动模型的公平性问题,关注模型在地理区域间表现差异所隐含的公平性缺失。基于人群流动数据构建的预测模型对理解城市结构与出行模式至关重要,但可能嵌入偏差,尤其在时空上下文中,模型性能会反映并强化与地理位置相关的不平等。我们提出一种新框架,通过评估生成轨迹的效用与公平性来衡量模型公平性:效用以共通通勤部分(CPC)为相似性指标,比较生成与真实流动;公平性则基于人口均等性,重构为两组间CPC分布的差异。分析四类模型(引力、辐射、深度引力、非线性引力)发现,传统引力与辐射模型表现更公平,尽管深度引力模型获得更高CPC值。这一差距揭示了模型准确性与公平性之间的权衡,特征丰富的深度引力模型放大了社区表征中的既有偏见。研究强调,在移动建模中引入公平性度量至关重要,以防加剧社会不公。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This work examines the fairness of generative mobility models, addressing the often overlooked dimension of equity in model performance across geographic regions. Predictive models built on crowd flow data are instrumental in understanding urban structures and movement patterns; however, they risk embedding biases, particularly in spatiotemporal contexts where model performance may reflect and reinforce existing inequities tied to geographic distribution. We propose a novel framework for assessing fairness by measuring the utility and equity of generated traces. Utility is assessed via the Common Part of Commuters (CPC), a similarity metric comparing generated and real mobility flows, while fairness is evaluated using demographic parity. By reformulating demographic parity to reflect the difference in CPC distribution between two groups, our analysis reveals disparities in how various models encode biases present in the underlying data. We utilized four models (Gravity, Radiation, Deep Gravity, and Non-linear Gravity) and our results indicate that traditional gravity and radiation models produce fairer outcomes, although Deep Gravity achieves higher CPC. This disparity underscores a trade-off between model accuracy and equity, with the feature-rich Deep Gravity model amplifying pre-existing biases in community representations. Our findings emphasize the importance of integrating fairness metrics in mobility modeling to avoid perpetuating inequities.
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