Machine-learning algorithms have gained popularity in recent years in the field of ecological modeling due to their promising results in predictive performance of classification problems. While the application of such algorithms has been highly simplified in the last years due to their well-documented integration in co…
A common analytical problem in neuroscience is the interpretation of neural activity with respect to sensory input or behavioral output. This is typically achieved by regressing measured neural activity against known stimuli or behavioral variables to produce a "tuning function" for each neuron. Unfortunately, because …
A cubing strategy identifies stable hyperparameter regions for uncertainty quantification in spatial deep learning.
problem Uncertainty quantification in spatial deep learning models.
method Cubing-based diagnostic framework to recursively partition hyperparameter space and evaluate regions using scoring rules.
result Our approach produces competitive or superior predictive intervals compared to a statistical baseline model.
Uniform consistency proven for spatial distribution and depth estimators in any dimension.
problem Uniform consistency of spatial distribution and depth estimators in arbitrary dimensions.
method Proof of uniform L1-consistency using sample size n as the only dependency. result Consistency rate is independent of dimension d and sample size n. Simple attack bypasses state-of-the-art DNN watermarking.
problem Protecting DNN models from watermark removal attacks.
method Combining imperceptible pattern embedding and spatial-level transformations for a simple yet effective watermark removal.
result Our attack bypasses state-of-the-art watermarking solutions with high success rates.
Product Kanerva Machines dynamically combine smaller models for better memory organization.
problem Limited organization in the Kanerva Machine.
method Introducing Product Kanerva Machines that dynamically combine multiple smaller Kanerva Machines.
result Product Kanerva Machines can discover spatial tunings that approximately factorize simple images by object.
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.
A new machine learning method for spatial regression.
problem Spatial/temporal regression with scattered data and arbitrary dimensions.
method Modified Planar Rotator (MPRS) method, a non-parametric model with distance-dependent interactions.
result MPRS predictions are competitive with standard interpolation methods and superior in handling rough and non-Gaussian data.
DISTANA predicts and denoises spatial wave dynamics.
problem Identifying causality in spatially distributed, non-linear dynamical processes.
method Generative, recurrent graph convolution neural network architecture (DISTANA).
result DISTANA outperforms alternative approaches in denoising and predicting complex spatial wave propagation.
We introduce a general method of performing Residual Network inference and learning in the JPEG transform domain that allows the network to consume compressed images as input. Our formulation leverages the linearity of the JPEG transform to redefine convolution and batch normalization with a tune-able numerical approxi…
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…
BKP R package models spatially varying binomial probabilities efficiently.
problem Modeling spatially varying binomial probabilities efficiently.
method Beta Kernel Process (BKP) combining localized kernel-weighted likelihoods with conjugate beta priors.
result Closed-form posterior inference without requiring latent variables or intensive MCMC sampling.
In model-based reinforcement learning, generative and temporal models of environments can be leveraged to boost agent performance, either by tuning the agent's representations during training or via use as part of an explicit planning mechanism. However, their application in practice has been limited to simplistic envi…
Enhances POU-Nets with probabilistic noise model for efficient spatial data clustering.
problem Improving the efficiency and accuracy of deep learning models for spatial data.
method Integrates Gaussian noise model into POU-Nets to enable gradient-based optimization and hierarchical refinement.
result Achieves sharp spatial partitions and higher-order polynomial approximation without regularizers.
Unified CLIP space manipulations improve GAN adaptation with a single target image.
problem Overfitting or underfitting in fine-tuning a pre-trained generator with a single target image.
method Two-step training strategy: latent optimization in CLIP space followed by generator fine-tuning with CLIP space consistency loss.
result Our model generates diverse outputs with the target texture and outperforms baseline models.
This work improves texture segmentation by automatically tuning hyperparameters for Total-Variation.
problem The challenge is to automatically select hyperparameters for Total-Variation texture segmentation.
method The approach involves extending Stein's unbiased gradient estimator to handle correlated Gaussian noise, leading to an automatic tuning method.
result The method provides an automatic way to select hyperparameters for Total-Variation texture segmentation.
Treeging combines regression trees and kriging for spatial and space-time prediction.
problem Improving spatial and space-time prediction accuracy.
method Combines regression trees with kriging's covariance structures.
result Treeging outperforms kriging and random forest in various scenarios.
Study builds dataset and benchmarks ML models for accurate solar and wind power forecasting in France.
problem Accurate prediction of non-dispatchable renewable energy sources for grid stability and price prediction.
method Comprehensive methodology using machine learning models trained with spatially explicit weather data and production site capacity.
result Neural networks outperform traditional models in forecasting solar and wind power production in France.
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.
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.
A new method optimizes spatial sampling for level set estimation in one dimension.
problem Efficiently localizing regions above/below a threshold function.
method Finite-horizon search procedure balancing estimation error and travel distance.
result Method significantly improves estimation accuracy at lower travel costs.
Package {mlr3spatiotempcv} simplifies spatiotemporal resampling methods in R.
problem Assessing and tuning spatial and spatiotemporal machine learning models.
method Integrates various spatiotemporal resampling methods into the {mlr3} framework.
result Provides a consistent interface for spatiotemporal resampling methods.
New model uncovers non-Euclidean neural representations.
problem Discovering latent neural states in complex, non-Euclidean spaces.
method Manifold GPLVM for identifying latent variables and neural contributions.
result mGPLVM correctly recovers non-Euclidean latent structures in neural data.
The paper identifies patterns in language model weights used for memorizing paragraphs.
problem Locating the specific mechanisms and weights used by language models to memorize paragraphs.
method Examined gradients and attention patterns in language models to identify memorized paragraphs.
result Gradients of memorized paragraphs have a distinguishable spatial pattern, and localized attention heads are involved in paragraph memorization.
GATGPT uses LLMs with graph attention for spatiotemporal data imputation.
problem Missing values in spatiotemporal data due to sensor malfunctions and data transmission errors.
method Integrates pre-trained large language models with graph attention mechanisms.
result GATGPT achieves comparable results to deep learning benchmarks on real-world datasets.
We use diffusion models to sample from complex GP priors in climate data.
problem Sampling from non-stationary Gaussian process priors is computationally hard.
method Replace GP prior with a diffusion model surrogate and use training-free guidance algorithms.
result Generated distributions are close to GP priors and can be fine-tuned.
Congestion prediction represents a major priority for traffic management centres around the world to ensure timely incident response handling. The increasing amounts of generated traffic data have been used to train machine learning predictors for traffic, however this is a challenging task due to inter-dependencies of…
Spatial blind source separation simplifies multivariate spatial prediction.
problem Predicting multivariate measurements at unobserved locations with spatial dependencies.
method Spatial blind source separation as a pre-processing tool compared to Cokriging and neural networks.
result Spatial blind source separation simplifies spatial prediction by avoiding cross-dependencies.
The paper introduces groupoid racks for spatial surfaces.
problem Coloring diagrams of spatial surfaces for invariant calculation.
method Introduces groupoid racks with universal properties.
result Groupoid racks provide an invariant for spatial surfaces.
Machine learning algorithms find frequent application in spatial prediction of biotic and abiotic environmental variables. However, the characteristics of spatial data, especially spatial autocorrelation, are widely ignored. We hypothesize that this is problematic and results in models that can reproduce training data …
STICC clusters geographic objects considering both spatial contiguity and attributes.
problem Discovering repeated geographic patterns with spatial contiguity.
method Spatial Toeplitz Inverse Covariance-Based Clustering (STICC) method.
result STICC significantly outperforms baseline methods in adjusted rand index and macro-F1 score.
Spatial understanding is a fundamental problem with wide-reaching real-world applications. The representation of spatial knowledge is often modeled with spatial templates, i.e., regions of acceptability of two objects under an explicit spatial relationship (e.g., "on", "below", etc.). In contrast with prior work that r…
Defines non-parabolic curves in spatial hybrid space with applications.
problem Defining and analyzing non-parabolic spatial hybrid framed curves.
method Definition and proof of existence and uniqueness theorem for non-parabolic spatial hybrid framed curves.
result Existence and uniqueness theorem for non-parabolic spatial hybrid framed curves.
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 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…
This paper reviews spatial and spatiotemporal volatility models.
problem Capturing spatial dependence in volatility of spatial and spatiotemporal data.
method Review of time series volatility models and their extensions.
result Comparison and practical recommendations for spatial and spatiotemporal volatility models.
Working in high-dimensional latent spaces, the internal encoding of data in Variational Autoencoders becomes naturally sparse. We discuss this known but controversial phenomenon sometimes refereed to as overpruning, to emphasize the under-use of the model capacity. In fact, it is an important form of self-regularizatio…
Methods for learning feature representations for Offline Handwritten Signature Verification have been successfully proposed in recent literature, using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to learn representations from signature pixels. Such methods reported large performance improvements compared to handcrafted feature …
The adaptation of numerical wind wave models to the local time-spatial conditions is a problem that can be solved by using various calibration techniques. However, the obtained sets of physical parameters become over-tuned to specific events if there is a lack of observations. In this paper, we propose a robust evoluti…
The understanding of geographical reality is a process of data representation and pattern discovery. Former studies mainly adopted continuous-field models to represent spatial variables and to investigate the underlying spatial continuity/heterogeneity in the regular spatial domain. In this article, we introduce a more…
New method estimates spatial weights matrix for lattice data, improving prediction accuracy.
problem Estimating spatial dependence structure for regular lattice data.
method Adaptive lasso with cross-sectional resampling to estimate sparse spatial weights matrix.
result Improves prediction accuracy of nitrogen dioxide concentrations.
NCS enables efficient and accurate conditional simulation for complex spatial processes.
problem Challenges in simulating from complex spatial process distributions.
method Neural diffusion models and conditional score-based diffusion.
result NCS outperforms traditional methods in efficiency and accuracy.
Grid homology theory for spatial graphs extends skein sequence.
problem No specific problem stated; focuses on extending a sequence.
method Defined grid homology theory for spatial graphs and extended skein sequence.
result Skein exact sequence extended to grid homology for spatial graphs.
Spatial Adapter adds structured spatial representation to frozen predictors.
problem Efficiently adding spatial structure to pre-trained models.
method Structured spatial decomposition and closed-form covariance for residual fields.
result Adapter improves spatial prediction and uncertainty quantification.
Investigates transfer learning in spatial statistics.
problem Applying transfer learning to spatial statistics.
method Simple MLP models for spatial data.
result Potential of transfer learning in spatial statistics.
New invariants distinguish spatial graphs not previously possible.
problem Distinguishing spatial graphs using Dehn colorings.
method Developed vertex-weight invariants based on Dehn colorings.
result Found spatial graphs distinguishable by vertex-weight invariants.
Bayesian spatial predictive synthesis improves spatial data predictions.
problem Model misspecification and heterogeneity in spatial data.
method Bayesian ensemble methodology capturing spatially-varying model uncertainty and performance heterogeneity.
result Synthesized predictions outperform standard methods in accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
Spatially constrained Gaussian mixture models reduce covariance complexity.
problem High dimensionality in finite mixture models for spatial data.
method Spatial covariance constraint with only four free parameters.
result Improves clustering of multi-way spatial data and inference of spatial patterns.