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Semi-Supervised Learning under Spatially Biased Sampling

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Standard semi-supervised learning (SSL) typically relies on labelled and unlabelled data sharing a common marginal distribution. This assumption is often violated by biased spatial sampling mechanism, when labels are collected under spatially biased or preferential site selection. We treat this marginal mismatch, spatial autocorrelation, and spatial non-stationarity as three distinct mechanisms, varied independently via a labelled-sampling concentration parameter, a spatial length scale, and a non-stationarity strength parameter, and ask how mismatch degrades SSL, whether the cluster and manif

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