Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 22, 2026
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Reported gains in vessel-trajectory prediction from Automatic Identification System (AIS) data are credited to new architectures, but the evaluation protocol is rarely measured as a source of error reduction. We build a leakage-aware protocol with vessel-, time- and region-disjoint splits and apply it to two corpora with different traffic: 31 days of Danish national AIS traffic and 30 days of US Gulf coast traffic off Houston and Galveston. On both, we audit TrAISformer, GATransformer, and controlled AISFormer-inspired reconstructions. Three protocol effects appear in both corpora. First, TrAISformer's best-of-16 oracle decoder lowers error by a factor of 2.1-3.2 relative to greedy decoding. Second, a split that shares vessels lowers its greedy error by 23-25% at one hour, against 2% or less for a compact 0.43 M-parameter encoder. Third, a region-disjoint split raises TrAISformer's one-hour error from 2.2 to 24.6 km on the US corpus, because 99.9% of the test contexts fall in longitude bins never seen in training; the encoder built on local offsets is unaffected by this. Architectural mechanisms matter less: GATransformer's graph attention gives no measurable benefit on either corpus, while its waterway feature is worth 12-22%. The effect of a time-disjoint split is not stable across corpora (13% versus 2%). We release the splits and code.