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Several recent works use positional encodings to extend the receptive fields of graph neural network (GNN) layers equipped with attention mechanisms. These techniques, however, extend receptive fields to the complete graph, at substantial…

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Effective node representation lies at the heart of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), as it directly impacts their ability to perform downstream tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Most existing GNNs, particularly message…

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A key module in neural transformer-based deep architectures is positional encoding. This module enables a suitable way to encode positional information as input for transformer neural layers. This success has been rooted in the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ezequiel Lopez-Rubio , Macoris Decena-Gimenez , Rafael Marcos Luque-Baena

The proliferation of various data sources in urban and territorial environments has significantly facilitated the development of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) across a wide range of geospatial applications. However, geospatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yile Chen , Weiming Huang , Kaiqi Zhao , Yue Jiang , Gao Cong

Publicly available satellite imagery, such as Sentinel- 2, often lacks the spatial resolution required for accurate analysis of remote sensing tasks including urban planning and disaster response. Current super-resolution techniques are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Daniel Panangian , Ksenia Bittner

Neural implicit surface representations are currently receiving a lot of interest as a means to achieve high-fidelity surface reconstruction at a low memory cost, compared to traditional explicit representations.However, state-of-the-art…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

Fourier features based positional encoding (PE) is commonly used in machine learning tasks that involve learning high-frequency features from low-dimensional inputs, such as 3D view synthesis and time series regression with neural tangent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chuanhao Sun , Zhihang Yuan , Kai Xu , Luo Mai , N. Siddharth , Shuo Chen , Mahesh K. Marina

Positional and structural encodings (PSE) enable better identifiability of nodes within a graph, rendering them essential tools for empowering modern GNNs, and in particular graph Transformers. However, designing PSEs that work optimally…

In contrast to regular (simple) networks, hyper networks possess the ability to depict more complex relationships among nodes and store extensive information. Such networks are commonly found in real-world applications, such as in social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Shu Liu , Cameron Lai , Fujio Toriumi

Pervasive localization is essential for continuous tracking applications, yet existing solutions face challenges in balancing power consumption and accuracy. GPS, while precise, is impractical for continuous tracking of micro-assets due to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Aritrik Ghosh , Nakul Garg , Nirupam Roy

Recently, brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in solving pattern recognition tasks. However, these SNNs are grounded on homogeneous neurons that utilize a uniform neural coding for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Xinyi Chen , Qu Yang , Jibin Wu , Haizhou Li , Kay Chen Tan

Many real-world physics and engineering problems arise in geometrically complex domains discretized by meshes for numerical simulations. The nodes of these potentially irregular meshes naturally form point clouds whose limited tractability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shirin Hosseinmardi , Ramin Bostanabad

Change detection is a critical task in earth observation applications. Recently, deep learning-based methods have shown promising performance and are quickly adopted in change detection. However, the widely used multiple encoder and single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sijie Zhao , Xueliang Zhang , Pengfeng Xiao , Guangjun He

In this paper, we challenge the common assumption that collapsing the spatial dimensions of a 3D (spatial-channel) tensor in a convolutional neural network (CNN) into a vector via global pooling removes all spatial information.…

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Neuromorphic computing offers a transformative pathway to overcome the computational and energy challenges faced in deploying robotic localization and navigation systems at the edge. Visual place recognition, a critical component for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Adam D. Hines , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

We propose a novel method to enhance the performance of coordinate-MLPs by learning instance-specific positional embeddings. End-to-end optimization of positional embedding parameters along with network weights leads to poor generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Sameera Ramasinghe , Simon Lucey

SinGAN shows impressive capability in learning internal patch distribution despite its limited effective receptive field. We are interested in knowing how such a translation-invariant convolutional generator could capture the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Rui Xu , Xintao Wang , Kai Chen , Bolei Zhou , Chen Change Loy

Geospatial Knowledge Graphs (GeoKGs) model geoentities (e.g., places and natural features) and spatial relationships in an interconnected manner, providing strong knowledge support for geographic applications, including data retrieval,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Lei Hu , Wenwen Li , Yunqiang Zhu

Representation of data on mixed variables, numerical and categorical types to get suitable feature map is a challenging task as important information lies in a complex non-linear manifold. The feature transformation should be able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Saswata Sahoo , Souradip Chakraborty

We present a novel approach to geolocalising panoramic images on a 2-D cartographic map based on learning a low dimensional embedded space, which allows a comparison between an image captured at a location and local neighbourhoods of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Noe Samano , Mengjie Zhou , Andrew Calway