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TRACE: Retrospective Streaming Generation of Physical Fields under Sparse Structured Sensing
arXiv:2608.26219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing continuous physical fields from sparse measurements is central to scientific monitoring, inverse modeling, and digital-twin constructio
arXiv:2608.26219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing continuous physical fields from sparse measurements is central to scientific monitoring, inverse modeling, and digital-twin construction. Generative reconstruction has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for this task by learning data-driven physical priors that complete plausible full fields from limited observations. However, existing methods largely assume fixed, batch conditioning, whereas real sensing systems often produce structured streams: probes scan local regions, instruments observe moving fields of view, and communication constraints may leave entire frames missing. We propose TRACE, a retrospective streaming generative reconstruction framework for physical fields under structured sensing. TRACE performs approximate Bayesian inference in a learned continuous-coordinate latent space, converting sparse off-grid measurements into generative latent evidence, fusing it with a state-space temporal prior through Kalman-style filtering, and refining under-observed past frames via retrospective smoothing. Experiments on active matter, ocean sound-speed fields, and supernova simulations show that TRACE matches or surpasses frame-wise generative reconstructors, offline spatiotemporal methods, and streaming data-assimilation baselines in reconstruction quality under temporally sparse and spatially localized sensing protocols.
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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-08-28