AirPhyNet: Harnessing Physics-Guided Neural Networks for Air Quality Prediction
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| author | Hettige, Kethmi Hirushini Ji, Jiahao Xiang, Shili Long, Cheng Cong, Gao Wang, Jingyuan |
| author_facet | Hettige, Kethmi Hirushini Ji, Jiahao Xiang, Shili Long, Cheng Cong, Gao Wang, Jingyuan |
| contents | Air quality prediction and modelling plays a pivotal role in public health and environment management, for individuals and authorities to make informed decisions. Although traditional data-driven models have shown promise in this domain, their long-term prediction accuracy can be limited, especially in scenarios with sparse or incomplete data and they often rely on black-box deep learning structures that lack solid physical foundation leading to reduced transparency and interpretability in predictions. To address these limitations, this paper presents a novel approach named Physics guided Neural Network for Air Quality Prediction (AirPhyNet). Specifically, we leverage two well-established physics principles of air particle movement (diffusion and advection) by representing them as differential equation networks. Then, we utilize a graph structure to integrate physics knowledge into a neural network architecture and exploit latent representations to capture spatio-temporal relationships within the air quality data. Experiments on two real-world benchmark datasets demonstrate that AirPhyNet outperforms state-of-the-art models for different testing scenarios including different lead time (24h, 48h, 72h), sparse data and sudden change prediction, achieving reduction in prediction errors up to 10%. Moreover, a case study further validates that our model captures underlying physical processes of particle movement and generates accurate predictions with real physical meaning. |
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| spellingShingle | AirPhyNet: Harnessing Physics-Guided Neural Networks for Air Quality Prediction Hettige, Kethmi Hirushini Ji, Jiahao Xiang, Shili Long, Cheng Cong, Gao Wang, Jingyuan Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Applied Physics Air quality prediction and modelling plays a pivotal role in public health and environment management, for individuals and authorities to make informed decisions. Although traditional data-driven models have shown promise in this domain, their long-term prediction accuracy can be limited, especially in scenarios with sparse or incomplete data and they often rely on black-box deep learning structures that lack solid physical foundation leading to reduced transparency and interpretability in predictions. To address these limitations, this paper presents a novel approach named Physics guided Neural Network for Air Quality Prediction (AirPhyNet). Specifically, we leverage two well-established physics principles of air particle movement (diffusion and advection) by representing them as differential equation networks. Then, we utilize a graph structure to integrate physics knowledge into a neural network architecture and exploit latent representations to capture spatio-temporal relationships within the air quality data. Experiments on two real-world benchmark datasets demonstrate that AirPhyNet outperforms state-of-the-art models for different testing scenarios including different lead time (24h, 48h, 72h), sparse data and sudden change prediction, achieving reduction in prediction errors up to 10%. Moreover, a case study further validates that our model captures underlying physical processes of particle movement and generates accurate predictions with real physical meaning. |
| title | AirPhyNet: Harnessing Physics-Guided Neural Networks for Air Quality Prediction |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03784 |