2025/01/27 by Vanja Falck, Falck, Vanja · 1 citation
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Automated Road and Building Extraction #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis #I.2.11 #I.5.4 #I.6.7 #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2501.16080
openalex publication_date 2025/01/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Using agent-based social simulations can enhance our understanding of urban planning, public health, and economic forecasting. Realistic synthetic populations with numerous attributes strengthen these simulations. The Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network, trained on census data like EU-SILC, can create robust synthetic populations. These methods, aided by external statistics or EU-SILC weights, generate spatial synthetic populations for agent-based models. The increased access to high-quality micro-data has sparked interest in synthetic populations, which preserve demographic profiles and analytical strength while ensuring privacy and preventing discrimination. This study uses national data from Finland and Greece for Helsinki and Thessaloniki to explore balanced spatial synthetic population generation. Results show challenges related to balancing data with or without aggregated statistics for the target population and the general under-representation of fringe profiles by deep generative methods. The latter can lead to discrimination in agent-based simulations.