arXiv:2503. 07811v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The theory of optimal transportation has developed into a powerful and elegant framework for comparing probability distributions, with wide-ranging applications in all areas of science.
By Florian F Gunsilius
arXiv:2510. 08762v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Causal inference in spatial domains faces two intertwined challenges: (1) unmeasured spatial factors, such as weather, air pollution, or mobility, that confound treatment and outcome, and (2) interference from nearby treatments that violate standard no-interference assumptions.
By Ayush Khot, Miruna Oprescu, Maresa Schr\"oder, Ai Kagawa, Xihaier Luo
The paper introduces TranCE, a doubly‑robust algorithm for estimating causal effects when an intervention is applied to one network but the interest lies in another, differing network. By extending selection diagrams to capture covariate and structural network shifts, the authors derive transport formulas for direct, spillover, and total effects, and validate the method on semi‑synthetic social‑network benchmarks and a real weather‑insurance field experiment.
By Xiaojing Du, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu, Debo Cheng, Jixue Liu, Thuc Duy Le
arXiv:2606. 15257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air pollution regulation is central to urban public health governance, but estimating its effects is difficult because policies are implemented non-randomly and pollution trajectories are shaped by meteorology, socioeconomic change, temporal trends, and overlapping interventions.
By Yang Han, Jacqueline CK Lam, Victor OK Li, Yiu-Wai Man
arXiv:2609.23838v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Greenhouse gas emissions estimates can be derived using inverse methods by combining atmospheric concentration observations with chemical transport mod...
By Jeff Clark, Elena Fillola, Nawid Keshtmand, Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Matthew Rigby
arXiv:2608. 08064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning fine-grained spatial patterns from coarse-resolution data is challenging, especially in causal settings where high-resolution effects must be inferred from aggregated interventions and outcomes.
By Gerrit Gro{\ss}mann, Sumantrak Mukherjee, Sebastian J. Vollmer
arXiv:2608. 14254v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fugitive emissions from waste sites increasingly expose communities to toxic and odorous gases, yet public-health responses remain largely retrospective, with episodes investigated only after residents have been exposed.
By Timothy C. Pearce, David J. T. Smith, Alec Dobney, Alessia Freddo
The paper presents a hierarchical causal representation learning framework that models both internal climate variability and forced responses in sea surface temperature fields from a global climate model. By training on future climate change scenarios, the method accurately predicts long‑term global mean and regional temperature evolution and reproduces realistic responses to perturbations in greenhouse gas and aerosol concentrations on unseen scenarios. This demonstrates the potential of causal representation learning to improve climate model emulation.
By Shan Zhao, Ilija Trajkovic, Julia Kaltenborn, Yaniv Gurwicz, Peer Nowack, David Rolnick, Julien Boussard
arXiv:2601. 02322v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A common approach to out-of-distribution prediction restricts models to causal or invariant covariates to avoid spurious associations that may change across environments.
By Shuozhi Zuo, Yixin Wang
arXiv:2607. 24218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for spatio-temporal forecasting (STF), enabling collaborative model training without sharing raw observations.
By Qingxiang Liu, Anqi Liang, Heng Wang, Yuxuan Liang
arXiv:2602. 17187v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The problem of domain generalization concerns learning predictive models that are robust to distribution shifts when deployed in new, previously unseen environments.
By Sorawit Saengkyongam, Juan L. Gamella, Andrew C. Miller, Jonas Peters, Nicolai Meinshausen, Christina Heinze-Deml
arXiv:2502. 14894v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent environmental contaminants with significant public health impacts, yet large-scale monitoring remains severely limited due to the high cost and logistical challenges of field sampling.
By Jowaria Khan, Alexa Friedman, Sydney Evans, Rachel Klein, Runzi Wang, Katherine E. Manz, Kaley Beins, David Q. Andrews, Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly