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48 results for spatial similarity

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).

Study uses trajectory embedding to measure place function similarity at fine spatial granularity.

problem Measuring place function similarity at fine spatial granularity.
method Trajectory embedding to reduce dimensions and measure similarity of place functions.
result Embedding similarity can be a metric proxy for place functions at fine spatial granularity.

This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in the conditional product convergence in the parishes' economies of mainland Portugal between 1991 and 2001 (the last year with data available for this spatial disaggregation level). To analyse the data, Moran's I statistic…

2011-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The spatial convolution layer which is widely used in the Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) aggregates the feature vector of each node with the feature vectors of its neighboring nodes. The GNN is not aware of the locations of the nodes in the global structure of the graph and when the local structures corresponding to diff…

2019-10-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The consideration of spatial effects at a regional level is becoming increasingly frequent and the work of Anselin (1988), among others, has contributed to this. This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity (product per worker) in the NUTs III economic …

2011-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

A framework converts spatial data into embeddings for insurance risk modelling.

problem Improving underwriting precision and risk management in insurance with spatial data.
method Multi-view contrastive learning framework for generating spatial embeddings.
result Spatial embeddings consistently improve predictive accuracy across various models.

This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects and human capital in the conditional productivity convergence (product per worker) in the economic sectors of NUTs III of mainland Portugal between 1995 and 2002. To analyse the data, Moran's I statistics is considered, and …

2011-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

This study analyses, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity (product per worker), at economic sectors level of the NUTs III of mainland Portugal, from 1995 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2005 (taking in count the data availability and the Portuguese and European context), c…

2011-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Scalable method for regionalizing and extracting temporal patterns from time series data.

problem Static spatial snapshots and ad hoc regularization limit effective spatial analysis and resource management.
method Minimum description length principle for fully nonparametric spatial partitioning and time series archetypes.
result Accurately recovers planted regional structure and drivers in synthetic and empirical data.

Estimates mean of distributed vectors with sparsification and spatial/temporal correlations.

problem Estimating mean of high-dimensional vectors distributed across nodes with low communication cost.
method Modifies decoding method to leverage spatial and temporal correlations in sparsified vectors.
result Estimators consistently outperform more sophisticated sparsification methods.

Proposes flexible spatial models for better understanding spatial heterogeneity.

problem Poor characterisation of spatial heterogeneity in conventional models.
method Spatial Bayesian Neural Networks (SBNNs) incorporating a spatial embedding layer and possibly spatially-varying parameters.
result SBNNs better match the finite-dimensional distribution of target spatial processes.

The paper tackles ride-hailing fleet repositioning with a calibrated demand approach.

problem Repositioning idle supply before future demand is observed in ride-hailing.
method A predict-then-optimize approach using calibrated demand regimes, a similarity gate, and spatial queue-regret decomposition.
result The spatial gate reduces mean wait time to 82.3s compared to 85.3s for a hand-tuned similarity gate and 85.8s for a distributional-only baseline.

Study reveals how dengue spread patterns vary across different years in Recife, Brazil.

problem Understanding spatial organization of dengue transmission in urban areas.
method Spatial analysis of dengue cases using topological data analysis and Vietoris-Rips filtrations.
result Critical percolation thresholds define distinct geometric regimes of dengue spread.

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been pivotal to the success of many state-of-the-art classification problems, in a wide variety of domains (for e.g. vision, speech, graphs and medical imaging). A commonality within those domains is the presence of hierarchical, spatially agglomerative local-to-global interacti…

2019-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Classical knot theory can be generalized to virtual knot theory and spatial graph theory. In 2007, Fleming and Mellor combined virtual knot theory and spatial graph theory to form, combinatorially, virtual spatial graph theory. In this paper, we introduce a topological definition of virtual spatial graphs that is simil…

2018-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

A deep learning model for traffic forecasting in telecommunication networks.

problem Complex spatial-temporal dependency in traffic forecasting.
method Spatio-Temporal Hybrid Graph Convolutional Network (STHGCN) combining GRUs and hybrid-GCN.
result The proposed model outperforms classical and state-of-the-art methods.

Researchers develop a new method to assess variable importance in spatial machine learning models for air pollution exposure prediction.

problem Understanding the mechanism captured by machine learning models in air pollution studies, especially with spatial correlation.
method Leave-one-out approach for variable importance measure applicable to models with separable mean and covariance components.
result The new method highlights differences in model mechanisms even for similar prediction accuracies.

ConvNets improve nonstationary covariance estimation for large-scale spatial data.

problem Estimating nonstationary spatial covariance functions on large scales.
method Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) for subregion identification and selection.
result Enhanced accuracy in parameter estimation using ConvNet-based partitioning.

Proposes a transfer learning framework to improve U.S. election prediction models.

problem Limited spatial data and spatial dependence challenges in presidential election prediction.
method Proposes a novel transfer learning framework within the SAR model, using a two-stage algorithm with transferring and debiasing stages.
result Substantially improves prediction accuracy and outperforms traditional methods in U.S. presidential swing states.

SpatialSim benchmarks machine learning in recognizing object spatial configurations.

problem Machine learning in recognizing precise geometrical configurations of groups of objects.
method SpatialSim benchmark with tasks of Identification and Comparison, using Graph Neural Networks (MPGNNs).
result MPGNNs outperform baselines in recognizing spatial configurations, highlighting current limits.

Spatially relaxed inference tackles high-dimensional linear models with correlated covariates.

problem Accurate inference is challenging in high-dimensional settings with spatially correlated covariates.
method Proposes ensembled clustered inference algorithms that control the δδ-FWER under standard assumptions.
result Ensembled clustered inference algorithms control the δδ-FWER and achieve decent power.

Model place cells as spatial embeddings for efficient path planning and cognitive map construction.

problem Encoding spatial navigation in the hippocampus.
method Model place cells using spectral decomposition of multi-step random walk transition kernels, inducing sparsity and adjacency.
result Place cells encode spatial information through non-negativity and inner-product structure, forming a cognitive map.

Neural networks speed up covariance estimation in spatial Gaussian processes.

problem Efficiently estimating covariance parameters in spatial Gaussian processes.
method Training neural networks to approximate maximum likelihood estimates.
result Neural network estimates are as accurate as ML methods but much faster.

In this note, we compute the limit of the Wang-Yau quasi-local mass on unit spheres at spatial infinity of an asymptotically flat initial data set. Similar to the small sphere limit of the Wang-Yau quasi-local mass, we prove that the leading order term of the quasi-local mass recovers the stress-energy tensor. For a va…

2019-01-21abs ↗pdf ↗

iREPA shows spatial structure, not global semantic, drives generation performance in REPA.

problem Understanding what aspect of the target representation matters for generation.
method Empirical analysis of 27 vision encoders, two modifications to REPA.
result Spatial structure, not global semantic, drives generation performance.

In 2003, Ozsváth and Szabó defined the concordance invariant ττ for knots in oriented 3-manifolds as part of the Heegaard Floer homology package. In 2011, Sarkar gave a combinatorial definition of ττ for knots in S3S^3 and a combinatorial proof that ττ gives a lower bound for the slice genus of a knot. Recently, Har…

2018-07-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Spatial processes with nonstationary and anisotropic covariance structure are often used when modelling, analysing and predicting complex environmental phenomena. Such processes may often be expressed as ones that have stationary and isotropic covariance structure on a warped spatial domain. However, the warping functi…

2019-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the vacuum Einstein flow with a positive cosmological constant on spatial manifolds of product form. In spatial dimension at least four we show the existence of continuous families of recollapsing models whenever at least one of the factors or admits a Riemannian Einstein metric with positive Einstein const…

2016-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Self-similar solutions to geometric flows are stable under small perturbations.

problem Stability of self-similar solutions in geometric flows.
method Global analytic solutions, compactness arguments, spatial equi-decay properties, and estimates of linearized operator.
result Perturbed solutions are asymptotically self-similar as time tends to infinity.

New CNN architecture improves pediatric image segmentation by homogenizing pose and size.

problem Challenges in segmenting pediatric images due to pose and size heterogeneity.
method Spatial Transformer Network (STN) for pose and scale invariance, combined with UNet for segmentation.
result Improved pediatric segmentation, especially renal tumor delineation, with accelerated processing.

Proposes SimPool for graph pooling using structural similarity features.

problem Challenges in graph pooling due to lack of spatial locality.
method Integrates structural similarity features with a revised pooling layer to propose SimPool.
result SimPool produces node cluster assignments resembling CNN's locality preserving pooling.

We introduce a Bayesian Gaussian process latent variable model that explicitly captures spatial correlations in data using a parameterized spatial kernel and leveraging structure-exploiting algebra on the model covariance matrices for computational tractability. Inference is made tractable through a collapsed variation…

2018-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm combines Geostatistics and Quantile Random Forests for non-stationary spatial modelling.

problem Non-stationary spatial modelling with multiple secondary variables.
method Combines Geostatistics and Quantile Random Forests to estimate conditional distributions and simulate spatial data.
result Consistent results similar to geostatistical and Quantile Random Forests, allowing for embedding simpler interpolation techniques.