RegionGCN: Spatial-Heterogeneity-Aware Graph Convolutional Networks
Hao Guo; Han Wang; Di Zhu; Lun Wu; A. Stewart Fotheringham; Yu Liu · 2025 · arXiv
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Abstract (excerpt)
Modeling spatial heterogeneity in the data generation process is essential for understanding and predicting geographical phenomena. Despite their prevalence in geospatial tasks, neural network models usually assume spatial stationarity, which could limit their performance in the presence of spatial process heterogeneity. By allowing model parameters to vary over space, several approaches have been proposed to incorporate spatial heterogeneity into neural networks. However, current geographically weighting approaches are ineffective on graph neural networks, yielding no significant improvement
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