Proceedings:
No. 11: IAAI-22, EAAI-22, AAAI-22 Special Programs and Special Track, Student Papers and Demonstrations
Volume
Issue:
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36
Track:
AAAI Special Track on AI for Social Impact
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Abstract:
Air pollution is a global problem and severely impacts human health. Fine-grained air quality (AQ) monitoring is important in mitigating air pollution. However, existing AQ station deployments are sparse. Conventional interpolation techniques fail to learn the complex AQ phenomena. Physics-based models require domain knowledge and pollution source data for AQ modeling. In this work, we propose a Gaussian processes based approach for estimating AQ. The important features of our approach are: a) a non-stationary (NS) kernel to allow input depended smoothness of fit; b) a Hamming distance-based kernel for categorical features; and c) a locally periodic kernel to capture temporal periodicity. We leverage batch-wise training to scale our approach to a large amount of data. Our approach outperforms the conventional baselines and a state-of-the-art neural attention-based approach.
DOI:
10.1609/aaai.v36i11.21467
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Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36