PathCRF: Ball-Free Soccer Event Detection via Possession Path Inference from Player Trajectories

arXiv:2602.12080 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-02-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-02-12

Updated: 2026-06-01

Code: https://github.com/hyunsungkim-ds/pathcrf

Terminology

• Accuracy — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Conditional Random Field — 10× in this paper
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Structural Constraints — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GNNs — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Physical Constraints — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Interactions — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Greedy Constrained Decoding — 1× in this paper
• Induced Set Attention Block — 1× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Loss Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Viterbi Constrained Decoding — 1× in this paper

Sources

• baller2vec++: A Look-Ahead Multi-Entity Transformer For Modeling Coordinated Agents
• baller2vec: A Multi-Entity Transformer For Multi-Agent Spatiotemporal Modeling
• Common Data Format (CDF): A Standardized Format for Match-Data in Football (Soccer)
• A Survey on Recent Advances in Sequence Labeling from Deep Learning Models
• Bidirectional LSTM-CRF Models for Sequence Tagging

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