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This research introduces CASC, a novel framework that integrates adversarial clustering with causal inference and spatiotemporal dynamics to better model complex systems like disease spread or environmental monitoring. By shifting from purely geometric similarity toward capturing underlying causal processes and evolving temporal regimes, the method addresses key limitations in current deep subspace clustering approaches for nonstationary data.
CASC: Causal Adversarial Subspace Clustering for Multivariate Spatiotemporal Data
arXiv:2607.21088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep subspace clustering plays a critical role in applications involving multivariate spatiotemporal data, such as sea ice monitoring, disease spread analysis, and tracking neuro-degeneration over time. Despite recent advances, existing methods primarily rely on geometric self-expressiveness, assume static subspace structures, and often fail to capture causal dependencies, local spatial interactions, and long-range temporal dynamics inherent in complex spatiotemporal systems. To address these limitations, we propose a novel Causal Adversarial Subspace Clustering (CASC) framework for discovering evolving latent regimes in high-dimensional spatiotemporal data. CASC integrates a U-Net-inspired deep adversarial clustering architecture with stacked FAConvLSTM layers to preserve spatial and temporal structure while learning robust latent representations. A graph attention transformer-based self-expressive network is introduced to jointly model local spatial relationships, global dependencies, and long-range temporal interactions. Furthermore, we propose two new learning objectives: (1) a Causal Subspace Preservation Loss that aligns self-expression coefficients with latent causal relationships, encouraging clusters to reflect underlying causal processes rather than simple feature similarity, and (2) a Dynamic Temporal Subspace Evolution Loss that captures evolving subspace structures and temporal regime transitions in nonstationary environments. Together, these components transform deep subspace clustering from a correlation-driven paradigm into a causal-temporal regime discovery framework.
Abstract:Deep subspace clustering plays a critical role in applications involving multivariate spatiotemporal data, such as sea ice monitoring, disease spread analysis, and tracking neuro-degeneration over time. Despite recent advances, existing methods primarily rely on geometric self-expressiveness, assume static subspace structures, and often fail to capture causal dependencies, local spatial interactions, and long-range temporal dynamics inherent in complex spatiotemporal systems. To address these limitations, we propose a novel Causal Adversarial Subspace Clustering (CASC) framework for discovering evolving latent regimes in high-dimensional spatiotemporal data. CASC integrates a U-Net-inspired deep adversarial clustering architecture with stacked FAConvLSTM layers to preserve spatial and temporal structure while learning robust latent representations. A graph attention transformer-based self-expressive network is introduced to jointly model local spatial relationships, global dependencies, and long-range temporal interactions. Furthermore, we propose two new learning objectives: (1) a Causal Subspace Preservation Loss that aligns self-expression coefficients with latent causal relationships, encouraging clusters to reflect underlying causal processes rather than simple feature similarity, and (2) a Dynamic Temporal Subspace Evolution Loss that captures evolving subspace structures and temporal regime transitions in nonstationary environments. Together, these components transform deep subspace clustering from a correlation-driven paradigm into a causal-temporal regime discovery framework.
Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2607.21088 [cs.LG]
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