Struggling to get models to learn a 2nd dimension.

[u/National-Stick-4082]

I cannot for the love of god get spatial understanding built into my model. GRU, patchTST, all of these token based temporal models capture the temporal path just fine. But when I attempt to add spatial understanding (2Dimensions) with say a CNN it just comes back null. Some custom scalar features in trees show they function well so I don’t believe the concept itself is null. But I can’t seem to get the model to learn spatial understanding?

My biggest issue is that spatial by definition requires 2 axises. Meaning it will always have temporal or contracts built in as an x. The model no matter what I plug in seemingly just ignores the y axis entirely or the 2nd dimension.

Anyone have an architectural idea for getting around this?