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20232026
most citedEnabling Decision-Support Systems through Automated Cell Tower Detection

1 citations · 2 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.LG2026

Non-Parametric Spatiotemporal Trajectory Prediction via State-Conditioned Transition Sampling

Michael Fore, Akshay Jain, Justin Downes +2

We present a training-free method for multi-modal trajectory prediction that achieves comparable accuracy to a 57M-parameter transformer while requiring no GPU and zero learned par…

cs.CV2026

Perturb the Thought, Not the Pixels: Latent-Space Rollout Diversification for Reinforcement Learning of Vision-Language Models

Michael Jerge, Joseph Pelczar, Justin Downes

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves the reasoning ability of vision-language models (VLMs), and diversifying the rollouts within each optimization group…

cs.LG2026

Conditional Inference Trees and Forests for Feature Selection

Robert Milletich, Justin Downes, Steve Goley +1

Conditional inference trees (CIT) and conditional inference forests (CIF) reduce split-selection bias by testing features before choosing split thresholds, but repeated permutation…

physics.soc-ph2026

Evolving Networks Created by Preferential Attachment and Decay

Justin Downes

Growing synthetic networks that follow power law distributions of a node's degree often involves adding one node at a time. Each node is added to the network with a fixed amount of…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

Saliency Driven Imagery Preprocessing for Efficient Compression -- Industrial Paper

Justin Downes, Sam Saltwick, Anthony Chen

The compression of satellite imagery remains an important research area as hundreds of terabytes of images are collected every day, which drives up storage and bandwidth costs. Alt…

cs.AI2025

AutoClimDS: Climate Data Science Agentic AI -- A Knowledge Graph is All You Need

Ahmed Jaber, Wangshu Zhu, Ayon Roy +6

Climate data science remains constrained by fragmented data sources, heterogeneous formats, and steep technical expertise requirements. These barriers slow discovery, limit partici…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Enabling Decision-Support Systems through Automated Cell Tower Detection

Natasha Krell, Will Gleave, Daniel Nakada +3

Cell phone coverage and high-speed service gaps persist in rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa, impacting public access to mobile-based financial, educational, and humanitarian servi…