EquiTensors: Learning Fair Integrations of Heterogeneous Urban Data

Summary: EquiTensors learns shared, fair representations by aligning heterogeneous urban datasets in a spatio-temporal grid and training a convolutional denoising autoencoder. Adaptive weighting with adversarial debiasing reduces dataset dominance and sensitive-attribute leakage, delivering robust, competitive predictions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6120
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.1955087e-05
Overall Rank: 9,929 | 31.88%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3452777

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Authors

1. An Yan (University of Washington)
2. Bill Howe (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yan_sigmod21,
        title = {{EquiTensors: Learning Fair Integrations of Heterogeneous Urban Data}},
        author = {Yan, An and Howe, Bill},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3452777},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452777},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,417	Demystifying the QoS and QoE of Edge-hosted Video Streaming Applications in the Wild with SNESet	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
749	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00014379989
2,185	Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets	2016	SIGMOD	9.0026006e-05
2,216	Open Data Integration	2018	VLDB	8.9374127e-05

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