# Spatial Graph Coarsening: Weather and Weekday Prediction with London's Bike-Sharing Service using GNN

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16122 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.16122/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 5 of its 18 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 30 Aug 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.02907/) (2016)
- [Weisfeiler and Leman Go Neural: Higher-order Graph Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.02244/) (2018)
- [Graph Neural Networks for Social Recommendation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.07243/) (2019)
- [Predicting Station-level Hourly Demands in a Large-scale Bike-sharing Network: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.04997/) (2017)
- [Predicting origin-destination ride-sourcing demand with a spatio-temporal encoder-decoder residual multi-graph convolutional network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.09103/) (2019)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This study introduced the use of Graph Neural Network (GNN) for predicting the weather and weekday of a day in London, from the dataset of Santander Cycles bike-sharing system as a graph classification task. The proposed GNN models newly introduced (i) a concatenation operator of graph features with trained node embeddings and (ii) a graph coarsening operator based on geographical contiguity, namely "Spatial Graph Coarsening". With the node features of land-use characteristics and number of households around the bike stations and graph features of temperatures in the city, our proposed models outperformed the baseline model in cross-entropy loss and accuracy of the validation dataset.
