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The wide spread use of positioning and photographing devices gives rise to a deluge of traffic trajectory data (e.g., vehicle passage records and taxi trajectory data), with each record having at least three attributes: object ID, location…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Meng Chen , Xiaohui Yu , Yang Liu

How discriminative position information is for image classification depends on the data. On the one hand, the camera position is arbitrary and objects can appear anywhere in the image, arguing for translation invariance. At the same time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Robert-Jan Bruintjes , Jan van Gemert

Physically meaningful representations are essential for Earth Observation (EO), yet existing physical models are often simplified and incomplete. This leads to discrepancies between simulation and observations that hinder reliable forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yihang She , Andrew Blake , Clement Atzberger , Adriano Gualandi , Srinivasan Keshav

We introduce Perception Encoder (PE), a state-of-the-art vision encoder for image and video understanding trained via simple vision-language learning. Traditionally, vision encoders have relied on a variety of pretraining objectives, each…

This paper introduces PINT (Physics-Informed Neural Time Series Models), a framework that integrates physical constraints into neural time series models to improve their ability to capture complex dynamics. We apply PINT to the ERA5…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Keonvin Park , Jisu Kim , Jaemin Seo

Time series forecasting plays a crucial role in decision-making across various domains, but it presents significant challenges. Recent studies have explored image-driven approaches using computer vision models to address these challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhen Zeng , Rachneet Kaur , Suchetha Siddagangappa , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

Positional encodings are employed to capture the high frequency information of the encoded signals in implicit neural representation (INR). In this paper, we propose a novel positional encoding method which improves the reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Bharath Bhushan Damodaran , Francois Schnitzler , Anne Lambert , Pierre Hellier

Relative position embedding has become a standard mechanism for encoding positional information in Transformers. However, existing formulations are typically limited to a fixed geometric space, namely 1D sequences or regular 2D/3D grids,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yichen Xie , Depu Meng , Chensheng Peng , Yihan Hu , Quentin Herau , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

Unsupervised learning of vision transformers seeks to pretrain an encoder via pretext tasks without labels. Among them is the Masked Image Modeling (MIM) aligned with pretraining of language transformers by predicting masked patches as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Xiao Wang , Ying Wang , Ziwei Xuan , Guo-Jun Qi

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at general vision-language tasks, precise coordinate prediction remains a significant challenge, particularly as high-resolution inputs cause visual positional encodings (VPEs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xingjian Tao , Yiwei Wang , Yujun Cai , Yihong Luo , Kai Han , Jing Tang

Vision Transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in computer vision tasks, yet their reliance on learnable one-dimensional positional embeddings fundamentally disrupts the inherent two-dimensional spatial structure of images through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zhihang Xin , Xitong Hu , Rui Wang

This work presents a physics-infused reduced-order modeling (PIROM) framework for efficient and accurate prediction of transient thermal behavior in multi-layered hypersonic thermal protection systems (TPS). The PIROM architecture…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Carlos A. Vargas Venegas , Daning Huang , Patrick Blonigan , JohnTencer

The Transformer architecture has revolutionized various regions since it was proposed, and its effectiveness largely depends on the ability to encode positional information. Traditional position encoding methods exhibit significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Hao Yu , Tangyu Jiang , Shuning Jia , Shannan Yan , Shunning Liu , Haolong Qian , Guanghao Li , Shuting Dong , Huaisong Zhang , Chun Yuan

In an ever-increasing interest for Machine Learning (ML) and a favorable data development context, we here propose an original methodology for data-based prediction of two-dimensional physical fields. Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE),…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Rem-Sophia Mouradi , Cédric Goeury , Olivier Thual , Fabrice Zaoui , Pablo Tassi

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are commonly employed to model complex industrial systems characterized by multivariable dependence. Existing physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) excel in solving PDEs in a homogeneous medium.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Aina Wang , Pan Qin , Xi-Ming Sun

Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern a wide range of physical systems, and recent multimodal foundation models have shown promise for learning PDE solution operators across diverse equation families. However, existing multi-operator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Min Zhu , Jingmin Sun , Zecheng Zhang , Hayden Schaeffer , Lu Lu

Real-time multimodal inference on resource-constrained edge devices is essential for applications such as autonomous driving, human-computer interaction, and mobile health. However, prior work often overlooks the tight coupling between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Runxi Huang , Mingxuan Yu , Mingyu Tsoi , Xiaomin Ouyang

This paper presents a novel physics-infused reduced-order modeling (PIROM) methodology for efficient and accurate modeling of non-linear dynamical systems. The PIROM consists of a physics-based analytical component that represents the known…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-20 Carlos Vargas Venegas , Daning Huang

Recent advances of data-driven machine learning have revolutionized fields like computer vision, reinforcement learning, and many scientific and engineering domains. In many real-world and scientific problems, systems that generate data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhongkai Hao , Songming Liu , Yichi Zhang , Chengyang Ying , Yao Feng , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

This paper revisits the role of positional embeddings (PEs) within vision transformers (ViTs) from a geometric perspective. We show that PEs are not mere token indices but effectively function as geometric priors that shape the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jian Shi , Michael Birsak , Wenqing Cui , Zhenyu Li , Peter Wonka