arXiv:2512.15538cs.LGcs.CL2025-12

用高斯过程追踪向量集随时间的变化,实现结构演化可视化。

Tracking Temporal Dynamics of Vector Sets with Gaussian Process

  • 用无限维高斯过程建模向量集分布,结合随机傅里叶特征压缩表示
  • 在低维空间中捕捉犯罪分布与词向量的动态演变轨迹
  • 适用于生态、社会、语言等需分析结构变迁的领域

理解向量集的时间演化是生态学、犯罪分析和语言学等领域的基础挑战。例如,生态系统因植物、草食动物和肉食动物间的相互作用而演变;犯罪的空间分布随社会变迁而转移;词向量则反映文化与语义趋势。然而,由于这些向量集结构复杂且随时间变化,分析难度大。本文提出一种新方法,利用无限维高斯过程建模每组向量的潜在分布,并通过随机傅里叶特征近似高斯过程中的隐函数,获得紧凑且可比较的时序向量表示。该方法使我们能够在低维空间中追踪和可视化向量集的时序转变。我们在社会数据(犯罪分布)和语言数据(词嵌入)上进行了应用,验证了其在捕捉时间动态方面的有效性。结果表明,该方法提供了可解释且鲁棒的表示,为跨领域分析时序向量集的结构变化提供了一个强大框架。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Understanding the temporal evolution of sets of vectors is a fundamental challenge across various domains, including ecology, crime analysis, and linguistics. For instance, ecosystem structures evolve due to interactions among plants, herbivores, and carnivores; the spatial distribution of crimes shifts in response to societal changes; and word embedding vectors reflect cultural and semantic trends over time. However, analyzing such time-varying sets of vectors is challenging due to their complicated structures, which also evolve over time. In this work, we propose a novel method for modeling the distribution underlying each set of vectors using infinite-dimensional Gaussian processes. By approximating the latent function in the Gaussian process with Random Fourier Features, we obtain compact and comparable vector representations over time. This enables us to track and visualize temporal transitions of vector sets in a low-dimensional space. We apply our method to both sociological data (crime distributions) and linguistic data (word embeddings), demonstrating its effectiveness in capturing temporal dynamics. Our results show that the proposed approach provides interpretable and robust representations, offering a powerful framework for analyzing structural changes in temporally indexed vector sets across diverse domains.

高斯过程时序分析向量集

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