This paper explores the trade-off between spatial and adversarial robustness in neural networks.
problem Understanding the trade-off between spatial and adversarial robustness in neural networks.
method Quantitative analysis and empirical testing with curriculum learning.
result Spatial robustness and adversarial robustness are quantitatively related and can be improved simultaneously.
This research shows adding regularization boosts accuracy and spatial robustness for adversarially transformed examples.
problem Improving accuracy and spatial robustness for adversarially transformed examples.
method Invariance-inducing regularization using worst-case transformations.
result Adding regularization on top of standard or adversarial training reduces relative error by 20% for CIFAR10 without increasing computational cost.
Spatial smoothing improves BNNs' accuracy, uncertainty, and robustness without increasing computational cost.
problem Large ensembles in BNNs increase computational cost and reduce performance.
method Spatial smoothing adds blur layers to convolutional neural networks to ensemble neighboring feature map points.
result Spatial smoothing improves BNNs' performance with fewer ensembles and enhances robustness.
The study of adversarial robustness has so far largely focused on perturbations bound in p-norms. However, state-of-the-art models turn out to be also vulnerable to other, more natural classes of perturbations such as translations and rotations. In this work, we thoroughly investigate the vulnerability of neural networ…
Proposes a method to make statistical inferences robust in spatially dependent settings with missing at random labels.
problem Statistical inference challenges with missing at random labels and spatial dependence.
method Doubly robust estimator with cross-fit nuisances and jackknife spatial HAC variance correction.
result Asymptotically valid confidence intervals with improved finite-sample calibration.
Method selects significant spatial covariates in noisy data.
problem Identifying true spatial covariates in noisy data.
method Combines sparsity-promoting estimation with noise-robust model selection.
result Method reliably recovers true covariates under diverse noise scenarios.
Proposes new convex relaxations for certifying spatial robustness of neural networks.
problem Lack of provable guarantees for robustness against vector field transformations.
method Novel convex relaxations for certifying robustness against vector field transformations.
result First time providing a certificate of robustness against vector field transformations.
OpFlow predicts robust OD flows by learning choice potentials conditioned on spatial exposures.
problem Deep models trained on raw counts are vulnerable to distribution shift.
method OpFlow learns row-centered choice potentials and reconstructs flows by combining them with a calibrated origin scale.
result OpFlow improves robustness under environment shifts, as shown by controlled synthetic shifts and a real-world experiment.
SX-GeoTree improves spatially coherent explanations in geospatial regression trees.
problem Capturing spatial dependence and producing robust explanations in tabular prediction models.
method Integrates three objectives: impurity reduction, spatial residual control, and explanation robustness via modularity maximization on a consensus similarity network.
result Improves residual spatial evenness and doubles attribution consensus (modularity: Fujian 0.19 vs 0.09; Seattle 0.10 vs 0.05).
Probabilistic STNs improve image classification and robustness.
problem Training and robustness issues in STNs.
method Probabilistic extension of STNs that estimates stochastic transformations.
result Improved classification performance, robustness, and model calibration.
Successfully predicting gentrification could have many social and commercial applications; however, real estate sales are difficult to predict because they belong to a chaotic system comprised of intrinsic and extrinsic characteristics, perceived value, and market speculation. Using New York City real estate as our sub…
Dynamic models learn from sparse, interacting sub-systems.
problem Learning robust models for systems with local views and spatial locations.
method Abstracting the system as a collection of sparsely interacting sub-systems, each with a learned topology informed by spatial structure.
result Models are more robust to the number of available views and generalize better to novel tasks.
Survey of robust clustering methods for hotspot detection.
problem Detecting false positives in spatial hotspot mapping.
method Statistically rigorous clustering techniques.
result Survey of models and algorithms for robust clustering.
Spatial Deconfounder tackles interference and confounding in spatial data.
problem Interference and unmeasured spatial factors confound causal inference in spatial domains.
method Two-stage method using CVAE with spatial prior to reconstruct confounder, then estimate causal effects.
result Nonparametric identification of direct and spillover effects under weak assumptions.
Co-PLNet combines point and line predictions to improve wireframe parsing accuracy and efficiency.
problem Separate line and point predictions lead to inconsistent wireframes.
method Co-PLNet uses a Point-Line Prompt Encoder to convert early point detections into spatial prompts, which guide line refinement.
result Co-PLNet achieves better accuracy and robustness in wireframe parsing compared to existing methods.
Spatial perception is the backbone of many robotics applications, and spans a broad range of research problems, including localization and mapping, point cloud alignment, and relative pose estimation from camera images. Robust spatial perception is jeopardized by the presence of incorrect data association, and in gener…
Introduces Spectral Graph Network combining spatial and spectral message passing.
problem Relational reasoning in graph structured data.
method Applies message passing to both spatial and spectral domains of a graph.
result Promotes efficient training with fewer iterations and robustness to edge dropout.
Flexible spatial models improve predictive performance over nonstationary alternatives.
problem Improving predictive performance in nonstationary spatial modeling.
method Introduces a modular parametric covariance function that extends nonstationary spatial models.
result The proposed covariance function outperforms nonparametric methods in predictive performance.
This work creates a system for understanding human movement in spaces.
problem Simplify communication and interaction between robots and humans in spatial tasks.
method Uses unsupervised learning with neural autoencoding to learn continuous representations of spatio-temporal trajectory data.
result Proposes a method to form prototypical representations of movement based on spatial context.
New method generates realistic adversarial images with smaller perturbations.
problem Generating realistic adversarial images with small perturbations.
method Imposes spatial distortions (scaling, rotation, shear, translation) in addition to perturbations.
result Produces visually more realistic attacks that deceive classifiers without affecting human predictions.
Asynchronous federated modeling improves spatial data sharing without centralizing raw data.
problem Privacy and bandwidth constraints in distributed spatial data.
method Asynchronous federated modeling using low-rank Gaussian process approximations with block-wise optimization and adaptive strategies.
result Asynchronous federated modeling achieves synchronous performance and outperforms it in heterogeneous settings.
Paper proposes dp-VAE for preserving spatial context in gene expression data.
problem Inaccessibility of spatial context in single-cell gene expression data.
method Generic representation learning and transfer learning framework with a distance-preserving regularizer.
result dp-VAE effectively reconstructs and imputes spatial context from gene expression data.
TransST improves spatial transcriptomics data analysis by identifying cell clusters and biomarkers.
problem Low resolution and insufficient sequencing depth in spatial transcriptomics data.
method Transfer learning framework to adaptively leverage external cell-labeled information.
result TransST successfully identifies five biologically meaningful cell clusters and separates adipose tissues from connective issues.
Automated rock fragmentation assessment using deep learning and spatial statistics.
problem Assessing post-blast rock fragmentation in real-time.
method Fine-tuned YOLO12l-seg model for instance segmentation, followed by spatial statistics.
result Framework accurately assesses rock fragmentation patterns in real-time.
Hybrid model integrates GATv2 and geostatistics for better spatial prediction and uncertainty.
problem Accurate spatial prediction and uncertainty quantification in epidemiology and risk analysis.
method Integrates Graph Attention Network (GATv2) with model-based geostatistics (MBG) to capture relational and spatial dependencies.
result Hybrid model improves predictive accuracy and uncertainty quantification compared to standalone models.
DSF improves EEG model robustness to missing channels and noise.
problem Robust learning from corrupted EEG data with missing channels.
method Dynamic Spatial Filtering (DSF) as a multi-head attention module.
result DSF achieves up to 29.4% accuracy improvement over baseline models in noisy conditions.
Decentralized framework for spatial data inference over vulnerabilities.
problem Vulnerabilities in centralized frameworks for spatial data.
method Low-rank models, decentralized optimization, evidence lower bound, block descent method.
result Consistency and asymptotic normality of the estimator in spatial low-rank models.
Paper develops Dense NN models for temporal-spatial data with improved performance.
problem Improving predictive performance and robustness in temporal-spatial modeling.
method Fully connected neural networks with ReLU activation, non-asymptotic bounds, manifold modeling, short-range dependence.
result Demonstrates superior performance in temporal-spatial modeling across various synthetic functions.
Proposes SPE for robust speaker verification.
problem Improving text-independent speaker verification accuracy.
method Spatial pyramid encoding and deep length normalization.
result Proposed system outperforms i-vector and d-vector baselines.
Generative model improves wind field downscaling from coarse climate models.
problem Limited spatial resolution and biases in GCMs for wind energy studies.
method SerpentFlow for domain alignment and conditional fine-scale learning.
result Improved spatial coherence, inter-variable consistency, robustness under climate change.
PE-GQNN improves spatial data prediction and uncertainty quantification.
problem Poor calibration of predictive distributions in spatial data models.
method Combines PE-GNNs with Quantile Neural Networks and recalibration techniques.
result PE-GQNN outperforms existing methods in predictive accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
New method models precipitation extremes and spatial dependence.
problem Estimating dependencies of precipitation maxima in space and time.
method Generative neural networks for max-stable processes.
result Explicit nonparametric estimate of spatial dependence.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) attained a good performance in hyperspectral sensing image (HSI) classification, but CNNs consider spectra as orderless vectors. Therefore, considering the spectra as sequences, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been applied in HSI classification, for RNNs is skilled at dealing …
Improved capsule networks with kernel methods for robustness.
problem Adversarial robustness of capsule networks.
method Kernelized capsule networks using Gaussian processes.
result Improved robustness to adversarial perturbations.
We address the two fundamental problems of spatial field reconstruction and sensor selection in heterogeneous sensor networks: (i) how to efficiently perform spatial field reconstruction based on measurements obtained simultaneously from networks with both high and low quality sensors; and (ii) how to perform query bas…
REST improves robustness of black-box models to geometric transformations.
problem Overconfident incorrect predictions on out-of-distribution samples.
method REinforcement Spatial Transform learner (REST) that transforms input data into in-distribution samples.
result Improves robustness to geometric transformations and sample efficiency.
New method improves traffic forecasting models by adapting to spatial shifts.
problem Improving traffic forecasting models' ability to handle spatial shifts over years.
method Proposes a novel Mixture of Experts (MoE) framework for spatiotemporal models.
result Significant improvement in performance for handling spatial distribution shifts.
We address the problem of inferring the causal effect of an exposure on an outcome across space, using observational data. The data is possibly subject to unmeasured confounding variables which, in a standard approach, must be adjusted for by estimating a nuisance function. Here we develop a method that eliminates the …
STARK improves denoising of low-depth spatial transcriptomics images.
problem Denoising spatial transcriptomics images at ultra-low sequencing depths.
method Adaptive regularization with kernel ridge regression and graph Laplacian.
result STARK optimizes denoising performance over competing methods.
Spatial time series forecasting problems arise in a broad range of applications, such as environmental and transportation problems. These problems are challenging because of the existence of specific spatial, short-term and long-term patterns, and the curse of dimensionality. In this paper, we propose a deep neural net…
Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are powerful tools for graph-structured data. However, they have been recently shown to be vulnerable to topological attacks. To enhance adversarial robustness, we go beyond spectral graph theory to robust graph theory. By challenging the classical graph Laplacian, we propose a new c…
A3T-GCN improves traffic forecasting by capturing spatial and temporal dependencies.
problem Accurate real-time traffic forecasting in complex road networks.
method Attention Temporal Graph Convolutional Network (A3T-GCN) integrating recurrent units and graph convolutional network.
result Improved prediction accuracy through attention mechanism and global temporal information.
Bayesian model tackles spatial count data issues with flexible non-parametric techniques.
problem Challenges in traditional parametric models for spatial count data with unbalanced distributions and complex dependencies.
method Bayesian semi-parametric spatial dispersed count model combining non-parametric techniques and adapted count models.
result Demonstrates superior performance in managing dispersion and capturing intricate spatial patterns.
Paper introduces an unsupervised tensor-based anomaly detection method for spatiotemporal data.
problem Challenges in detecting anomalies in spatiotemporal data, especially in urban traffic monitoring and medical imaging.
method Formulates anomaly detection as a regularized robust low-rank + sparse tensor decomposition, incorporating spatiotemporal smoothness and local dependencies.
result Demonstrates improved anomaly detection performance on both synthetic and real data.
Improved graph-based connectivity estimation using heat modelling.
problem Lack of explicit model-based, dynamic, multivariate, and directed connectivity estimation methods.
method Noise-driven heat modelling on graphs with relaxed assumptions and regularisation.
result Demonstrated ability to capture meaningful spatial structure across real-world datasets.
Robust algorithm for distributed optimization resistant to Byzantine failures.
problem Resilient optimization in the presence of unreliable agents.
method Temporal and spatial robust aggregation, gradient normalization.
result Convergence for strongly convex and non-convex functions.
Dynamic model captures spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal volatility effects.
problem Analyzing volatility in spatial and temporal networks.
method Dynamic spatiotemporal and network ARCH model with common factors, Bayesian estimation.
result Model captures strong spatial/network interactions and spillover effects.
Proposes a deep neural network approach for image response regression.
problem Associations between medical images and covariates.
method Spatially varying coefficient models with deep neural networks.
result Explicitly accounts for spatial smoothness and subject heterogeneity.