Jacky Kaiyuan Li

STEM-LM: Spatio-Temporal Ecological Modeling via Masked Language Model for Multi-Species Distribution

STEM-LM uses masked language modeling to predict multi-species distributions by treating species presence as tokens in a spatio-temporal 'sentence', achieving high discrimination on ecological datasets.

A hierarchical Bayesian framework accommodates intraspecific and interspecific variation in multivariate traits

The paper introduces a hierarchical Bayesian framework to estimate taxon-specific intraspecific covariance structures and evolutionary processes for multivariate traits, showing improved uniformity in evolutionary rate estimates across the great ape clade.

DICAROS: Diffeomorphic Ancestral Shape Reconstruction on Phylogenies

DICAROS improves ancestral shape reconstruction by modeling shape correlations using diffeomorphic dynamics, outperforming traditional methods on non-symmetric trees.

Challenges in detecting ecological interactions using sedimentary ancient DNA data

The paper evaluates five methods for detecting ecological interactions from sedimentary ancient DNA data and finds high false discovery rates and poor detection performance under realistic conditions.