STACI: Spatio-Temporal Aleatoric Conformal Inference

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Autores principales: Feng, Brandon R., Park, David Keetae, Luo, Xihaier, Urdangarin, Arantxa, Yoo, Shinjae, Reich, Brian J.
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Publicado: 2025
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author Feng, Brandon R.
Park, David Keetae
Luo, Xihaier
Urdangarin, Arantxa
Yoo, Shinjae
Reich, Brian J.
author_facet Feng, Brandon R.
Park, David Keetae
Luo, Xihaier
Urdangarin, Arantxa
Yoo, Shinjae
Reich, Brian J.
contents Fitting Gaussian Processes (GPs) provides interpretable aleatoric uncertainty quantification for estimation of spatio-temporal fields. Spatio-temporal deep learning models, while scalable, typically assume a simplistic independent covariance matrix for the response, failing to capture the underlying correlation structure. However, spatio-temporal GPs suffer from issues of scalability and various forms of approximation bias resulting from restrictive assumptions of the covariance kernel function. We propose STACI, a novel framework consisting of a variational Bayesian neural network approximation of non-stationary spatio-temporal GP along with a novel spatio-temporal conformal inference algorithm. STACI is highly scalable, taking advantage of GPU training capabilities for neural network models, and provides statistically valid prediction intervals for uncertainty quantification. STACI outperforms competing GPs and deep methods in accurately approximating spatio-temporal processes and we show it easily scales to datasets with millions of observations.
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spellingShingle STACI: Spatio-Temporal Aleatoric Conformal Inference
Feng, Brandon R.
Park, David Keetae
Luo, Xihaier
Urdangarin, Arantxa
Yoo, Shinjae
Reich, Brian J.
Machine Learning
Methodology
Fitting Gaussian Processes (GPs) provides interpretable aleatoric uncertainty quantification for estimation of spatio-temporal fields. Spatio-temporal deep learning models, while scalable, typically assume a simplistic independent covariance matrix for the response, failing to capture the underlying correlation structure. However, spatio-temporal GPs suffer from issues of scalability and various forms of approximation bias resulting from restrictive assumptions of the covariance kernel function. We propose STACI, a novel framework consisting of a variational Bayesian neural network approximation of non-stationary spatio-temporal GP along with a novel spatio-temporal conformal inference algorithm. STACI is highly scalable, taking advantage of GPU training capabilities for neural network models, and provides statistically valid prediction intervals for uncertainty quantification. STACI outperforms competing GPs and deep methods in accurately approximating spatio-temporal processes and we show it easily scales to datasets with millions of observations.
title STACI: Spatio-Temporal Aleatoric Conformal Inference
topic Machine Learning
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21658