VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Daniel Cai
dblp:399/9276
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Trustworthy machine learning · 100% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Geometric modeling and processing · 50% Image and video coding · 50% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Environmental and earth informatics · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
fairness |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | No Location Left Behind: Measuring and Improving the Fairness of Implicit Representations for Earth Data · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › fairness
spatial fairness |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | No Location Left Behind: Measuring and Improving the Fairness of Implicit Representations for Earth Data · ICLR 2025 |
Geometric modeling and processing
implicit neural representation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | No Location Left Behind: Measuring and Improving the Fairness of Implicit Representations for Earth Data · ICLR 2025 |
Image and video coding › image compression
spatial coding |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | No Location Left Behind: Measuring and Improving the Fairness of Implicit Representations for Earth Data · ICLR 2025 |
Environmental and earth informatics
earth observation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | No Location Left Behind: Measuring and Improving the Fairness of Implicit Representations for Earth Data · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
spherical wavelet encoding · 2.6multiresolution analysis · 2.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | No Location Left Behind: Measuring and Improving the Fairness of Implicit Representations for Earth DataabstractImplicit neural representations (INRs) exhibit growing promise in addressing Earth representation challenges, ranging from emissions monitoring to climate modeling. However, existing methods disproportionately prioritize global average performance, whereas practitioners require fine-grained insights to understand biases and variations in these models. To bridge this gap, we introduce FAIR-Earth: a first-of-its-kind dataset explicitly crafted to challenge and examine inequities in Earth representations. FAIR-Earth comprises various high-resolution Earth signals, and uniquely aggregates extensive metadata along stratifications like landmass size and population density to assess the fairness of models. Evaluating state-of-the-art INRs across the various modalities of FAIR-Earth, we uncover striking performance disparities. Certain subgroups, especially those associated with high-frequency signals (e.g., islands, coastlines), are consistently poorly modeled by existing methods. In response, we propose spherical wavelet encodings, building on previous spatial encoding research for INRs. Leveraging the multi-resolution analysis capabilities of wavelets, our encodings yield more consistent performance over various scales and locations, offering more accurate and robust representations of the biased subgroups. These open-source contributions represent a crucial step towards facilitating the equitable assessment and deployment of implicit Earth representations. Daniel Cai, Randall Balestriero |
ICLR | 1 |