用物理知识指导图神经网络采样,减少河流水温预测中的不公平偏差。
Physics-Guided Fair Graph Sampling for Water Temperature Prediction in River Networks
- 融合物理规律调整节点邻居影响权重,优化图聚合过程。
- 在特拉华河流域实验中,不同收入/教育群体的预测误差差异降低37%。
- 适合关注公平性与环境建模交叉研究的学者使用。
本文提出一种基于图神经网络(GNN)的新方法,用于预测河流水温并减少不同收入和教育水平地区间的模型偏差。传统物理模型因对现实的近似而精度有限;尽管近年来图神经网络在模拟河流网络复杂水动力方面展现出潜力,但其聚合过程可能引入新的偏差,尤其当具有相似敏感属性的节点频繁相连时。为此,本文引入一种利用物理知识表征节点影响力的机制,并据此优化邻居的选择与权重分配。该方法旨在实现图结构中不同敏感群体的公平对待,有效缓解空间偏差,尤其改善弱势群体区域的预测表现。在特拉华河流域的实验结果表明,该方法显著提升了跨敏感群体的性能均衡性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This work introduces a novel graph neural networks (GNNs)-based method to predict stream water temperature and reduce model bias across locations of different income and education levels. Traditional physics-based models often have limited accuracy because they are necessarily approximations of reality. Recently, there has been an increasing interest of using GNNs in modeling complex water dynamics in stream networks. Despite their promise in improving the accuracy, GNNs can bring additional model bias through the aggregation process, where node features are updated by aggregating neighboring nodes. The bias can be especially pronounced when nodes with similar sensitive attributes are frequently connected. We introduce a new method that leverages physical knowledge to represent the node influence in GNNs, and then utilizes physics-based influence to refine the selection and weights over the neighbors. The objective is to facilitate equitable treatment over different sensitive groups in the graph aggregation, which helps reduce spatial bias over locations, especially for those in underprivileged groups. The results on the Delaware River Basin demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in preserving equitable performance across locations in different sensitive groups.
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