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arxivcs.LG2026-07-01

When Context Compensates for Sparse Event History: AlphaEarth for Spatio-Temporal Point-Process Forecasting

Yahya Aalaila, Mouad Elhamdi, Gerrit Großmann, Daniel Jenson, Elizaveta Semenova, Sebastian Vollmer

Spatio-temporal point-process models must often generalise across space when local event histories are sparse. We study whether exogenous spatial context can compensate in such regimes. Using a fixed log-Gaussian Cox process backbone, we compare an event-only model with the same model augmented by AlphaEarth embeddings as linear spatial context. We evaluate spatial transfer on emergency medical services (EMS) forecasting across eight held-out regions, fixed forecast anchors, and a sweep over history length $w$, using only AlphaEarth (AE) embeddings available strictly before each anchor. AE improves out-of-region predictive performance across all history regimes, with the largest gains under scarce histories: approximately $2$--$6\times$ multiplicative improvements at $1-2$ weeks, tapering to roughly $10$--$20\%$ at $w=20$--$104$ weeks. These results show that contextual information can substantially stabilise spatially transferred point-process forecasts when event history is limited.

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