arXiv Machine Learning By Livia Betti, Sebastian Ricke, Ivica Obadic, Adam J. Stewart, Esther Rolf

What's in an Earth Embedding? An Explainability Analysis of Location Encoders

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arXiv:2606. 24997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geographic implicit neural representations (INRs) learn to map any coordinate on Earth to a location embedding, implicitly encoding geospatial data into the weights of a neural network.

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