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Publications (22)

physics.ao-ph2024

Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics in a Machine Learning Earth System Model

Chenggong Wang, Michael S. Pritchard, Noah Brenowitz +5

Seasonal climate forecasts are socioeconomically important for managing the impacts of extreme weather events and for planning in sectors like agriculture and energy. Climate predi…

physics.comp-ph2024

DiffObs: Generative Diffusion for Global Forecasting of Satellite Observations

Jason Stock, Jaideep Pathak, Yair Cohen +5

This work presents an autoregressive generative diffusion model (DiffObs) to predict the global evolution of daily precipitation, trained on a satellite observational product, and…

cs.LG2024

Residual Corrective Diffusion Modeling for Km-scale Atmospheric Downscaling

Morteza Mardani, Noah Brenowitz, Yair Cohen +10

The state of the art for physical hazard prediction from weather and climate requires expensive km-scale numerical simulations driven by coarser resolution global inputs. Here, a g…

cs.DC2026

ShardTensor: Domain Parallelism for Scientific Machine Learning

Corey Adams, Peter Harrington, Akshay Subramaniam +4

Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) faces unique challenges for extreme-resolution data, with mitigations that often fail to scale or degrade the accuracy of trained models. While…

physics.ao-ph2022

DL-Corrector-Remapper: A grid-free bias-correction deep learning methodology for data-driven high-resolution global weather forecasting

Tao Ge, Jaideep Pathak, Akshay Subramaniam +1

Data-driven models, such as FourCastNet (FCN), have shown exemplary performance in high-resolution global weather forecasting. This performance, however, is based on supervision on…

cs.LG2022

Long-term stability and generalization of observationally-constrained stochastic data-driven models for geophysical turbulence

Ashesh Chattopadhyay, Jaideep Pathak, Ebrahim Nabizadeh +2

Recent years have seen a surge in interest in building deep learning-based fully data-driven models for weather prediction. Such deep learning models if trained on observations can…

cs.LG2025

Generative Data Assimilation of Sparse Weather Station Observations at Kilometer Scales

Peter Manshausen, Yair Cohen, Peter Harrington +7

Data assimilation of observational data into full atmospheric states is essential for weather forecast model initialization. Recently, methods for deep generative data assimilation…

cs.LG2024

Heavy-Tailed Diffusion Models

Kushagra Pandey, Jaideep Pathak, Yilun Xu +4

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art generation quality across many applications, but their ability to capture rare or extreme events in heavy-tailed distributions remains unc…

physics.ao-ph2024

A Practical Probabilistic Benchmark for AI Weather Models

Noah D. Brenowitz, Yair Cohen, Jaideep Pathak +6

Since the weather is chaotic, forecasts aim to predict the distribution of future states rather than make a single prediction. Recently, multiple data driven weather models have em…

physics.ao-ph2024

Kilometer-Scale Convection Allowing Model Emulation using Generative Diffusion Modeling

Jaideep Pathak, Yair Cohen, Piyush Garg +8

Storm-scale convection-allowing models (CAMs) are an important tool for predicting the evolution of thunderstorms and mesoscale convective systems that result in damaging extreme w…

physics.comp-ph2020

Using Machine Learning to Augment Coarse-Grid Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations

Jaideep Pathak, Mustafa Mustafa, Karthik Kashinath +3

Simulation of turbulent flows at high Reynolds number is a computationally challenging task relevant to a large number of engineering and scientific applications in diverse fields…

eess.SP2020

Backpropagation Algorithms and Reservoir Computing in Recurrent Neural Networks for the Forecasting of Complex Spatiotemporal Dynamics

Pantelis R. Vlachas, Jaideep Pathak, Brian R. Hunt +4

We examine the efficiency of Recurrent Neural Networks in forecasting the spatiotemporal dynamics of high dimensional and reduced order complex systems using Reservoir Computing (R…

nlin.CD2017

Using Machine Learning to Replicate Chaotic Attractors and Calculate Lyapunov Exponents from Data

Jaideep Pathak, Zhixin Lu, Brian R. Hunt +2

We use recent advances in the machine learning area known as 'reservoir computing' to formulate a method for model-free estimation from data of the Lyapunov exponents of a chaotic…

physics.ao-ph2022

FourCastNet: Accelerating Global High-Resolution Weather Forecasting using Adaptive Fourier Neural Operators

Thorsten Kurth, Shashank Subramanian, Peter Harrington +6

Extreme weather amplified by climate change is causing increasingly devastating impacts across the globe. The current use of physics-based numerical weather prediction (NWP) limits…

physics.ao-ph2026

Scaling Storm-Resolving Atmospheric AI Simulation to the Entire Planet

Zeyuan Hu, Akshay Subramaniam, Noel Keen +9

Kilometer-scale convection shapes precipitation extremes, tropical organization, and cloud feedbacks, but most global atmospheric models approximate these processes at 25-100 km re…

cs.LG2021

Using Data Assimilation to Train a Hybrid Forecast System that Combines Machine-Learning and Knowledge-Based Components

Alexander Wikner, Jaideep Pathak, Brian R. Hunt +3

We consider the problem of data-assisted forecasting of chaotic dynamical systems when the available data is in the form of noisy partial measurements of the past and present state…

nlin.AO2019

Using Machine Learning to Assess Short Term Causal Dependence and Infer Network Links

Amitava Banerjee, Jaideep Pathak, Rajarshi Roy +2

We introduce and test a general machine-learning-based technique for the inference of short term causal dependence between state variables of an unknown dynamical system from time…

cs.LG2023

Spherical Fourier Neural Operators: Learning Stable Dynamics on the Sphere

Boris Bonev, Thorsten Kurth, Christian Hundt +4

Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs) have proven to be an efficient and effective method for resolution-independent operator learning in a broad variety of application areas across scie…

cs.LG2020

Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge-Based Modeling for Scalable Forecasting and Subgrid-Scale Closure of Large, Complex, Spatiotemporal Systems

Alexander Wikner, Jaideep Pathak, Brian Hunt +5

We consider the commonly encountered situation (e.g., in weather forecasting) where the goal is to predict the time evolution of a large, spatiotemporally chaotic dynamical system…

cs.LG2018

Hybrid Forecasting of Chaotic Processes: Using Machine Learning in Conjunction with a Knowledge-Based Model

Jaideep Pathak, Alexander Wikner, Rebeckah Fussell +4

A model-based approach to forecasting chaotic dynamical systems utilizes knowledge of the physical processes governing the dynamics to build an approximate mathematical model of th…

physics.ao-ph2022

FourCastNet: A Global Data-driven High-resolution Weather Model using Adaptive Fourier Neural Operators

Jaideep Pathak, Shashank Subramanian, Peter Harrington +10

FourCastNet, short for Fourier Forecasting Neural Network, is a global data-driven weather forecasting model that provides accurate short to medium-range global predictions at $0.2…

physics.ao-ph2026

Learning Accurate Storm-Scale Evolution from Observations

Jaideep Pathak, Mohammad Shoaib Abbas, Peter Harrington +10

Accurate short-term prediction of clouds and precipitation is critical for severe weather warnings, aviation safety, and renewable energy operations. Forecasts at this timescale ar…