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most citedNext Day Wildfire Spread: A Machine Learning Data Set to Predict Wildfire Spreading from Remote-Sensing Data

151 citations · 297 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Neural Ideal Large Eddy Simulation: Modeling Turbulence with Neural Stochastic Differential Equations

Anudhyan Boral, Zhong Yi Wan, Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez +5

We introduce a data-driven learning framework that assimilates two powerful ideas: ideal large eddy simulation (LES) from turbulence closure modeling and neural stochastic differen…

cs.LG2023★ 11 cited

Debias Coarsely, Sample Conditionally: Statistical Downscaling through Optimal Transport and Probabilistic Diffusion Models

Zhong Yi Wan, Ricardo Baptista, Yi-fan Chen +4

We introduce a two-stage probabilistic framework for statistical downscaling using unpaired data. Statistical downscaling seeks a probabilistic map to transform low-resolution data…

physics.ao-ph2023

Accelerating large-eddy simulations of clouds with Tensor Processing Units

Sheide Chammas, Qing Wang, Tapio Schneider +3

Clouds, especially low clouds, are crucial for regulating Earth's energy balance and mediating the response of the climate system to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations. Despi…

physics.flu-dyn2022

A High-resolution Large-eddy Simulation Framework for Wildland Fire Predictions using TensorFlow

Qing Wang, Matthias Ihme, Rod R. Linn +6

As the impact of wildfires has become increasingly more severe over the last decades, there is continued pressure for improvements in our ability to predict wildland fire behavior…

cs.DC2022

Accelerating Physics Simulations with TPUs: An Inundation Modeling Example

Damien Pierce, R. Lily Hu, Yusef Shafi +4

Recent advancements in hardware accelerators such as Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) speed up computation time relative to Central Processing Units (CPUs) not only for machine learn…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Policy Learning and Evaluation with Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo

Sebastien M. R. Arnold, Pierre L'Ecuyer, Liyu Chen +2

Reinforcement learning constantly deals with hard integrals, for example when computing expectations in policy evaluation and policy iteration. These integrals are rarely analytica…

cs.CV2021★ 151 cited

Next Day Wildfire Spread: A Machine Learning Data Set to Predict Wildfire Spreading from Remote-Sensing Data

Fantine Huot, R. Lily Hu, Nita Goyal +3

Predicting wildfire spread is critical for land management and disaster preparedness. To this end, we present `Next Day Wildfire Spread,' a curated, large-scale, multivariate data…

cs.LG2021★ 12 cited

HyperPINN: Learning parameterized differential equations with physics-informed hypernetworks

Filipe de Avila Belbute-Peres, Yi-fan Chen, Fei Sha

Many types of physics-informed neural network models have been proposed in recent years as approaches for learning solutions to differential equations. When a particular task requi…

cs.MA2021★ 1 cited

An Efficient Simulation-Based Travel Demand Calibration Algorithm for Large-Scale Metropolitan Traffic Models

Neha Arora, Yi-fan Chen, Sanjay Ganapathy +5

Metropolitan scale vehicular traffic modeling is used by a variety of private and public sector urban mobility stakeholders to inform the design and operations of road networks. Hi…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 44 cited

A TensorFlow Simulation Framework for Scientific Computing of Fluid Flows on Tensor Processing Units

Qing Wang, Matthias Ihme, Yi-Fan Chen +1

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation framework for fluid-flow prediction is developed on the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) platform. The TPU architecture is featured with…

physics.data-an2021★ 5 cited

End-to-End Jet Classification of Boosted Top Quarks with the CMS Open Data

Michael Andrews, Bjorn Burkle, Yi-fan Chen +10

We describe a novel application of the end-to-end deep learning technique to the task of discriminating top quark-initiated jets from those originating from the hadronization of a…

cs.CV2020★ 19 cited

Deep Learning Models for Predicting Wildfires from Historical Remote-Sensing Data

Fantine Huot, R. Lily Hu, Matthias Ihme +6

Identifying regions that have high likelihood for wildfires is a key component of land and forestry management and disaster preparedness. We create a data set by aggregating nearly…

cs.CE2020

Accelerating MRI Reconstruction on TPUs

Tianjian Lu, Thibault Marin, Yue Zhuo +2

The advanced magnetic resonance (MR) image reconstructions such as the compressed sensing and subspace-based imaging are considered as large-scale, iterative, optimization problems…

cs.DC2020

Sensitivity Analysis in the Dupire Local Volatility Model with Tensorflow

Francois Belletti, Davis King, James Lottes +2

In a recent paper, we have demonstrated how the affinity between TPUs and multi-dimensional financial simulation resulted in fast Monte Carlo simulations that could be setup in a f…

cs.AI2020★ 5 cited

Simulation Pipeline for Traffic Evacuation in Urban Areas and Emergency Traffic Management Policy Improvements through Case Studies

Yu Chen, S. Yusef Shafi, Yi-fan Chen

Traffic evacuation plays a critical role in saving lives in devastating disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, etc. An ability to evaluate evacuation plans i…

cs.MS2020★ 11 cited

Large-Scale Discrete Fourier Transform on TPUs

Tianjian Lu, Yi-Fan Chen, Blake Hechtman +2

In this work, we present two parallel algorithms for the large-scale discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) clusters. The two parallel algorithms are asso…

cs.CE2019★ 8 cited

High-resolution imaging on TPUs

Fantine Huot, Yi-Fan Chen, Robert Clapp +2

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is leading to a new generation of hardware accelerators optimized for deep learning. Some of the designs of these accelerators a…

cs.DC2019★ 1 cited

Tensor Processing Units for Financial Monte Carlo

Francois Belletti, Davis King, Kun Yang +4

Monte Carlo methods are critical to many routines in quantitative finance such as derivatives pricing, hedging and risk metrics. Unfortunately, Monte Carlo methods are very computa…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Scaling Up Collaborative Filtering Data Sets through Randomized Fractal Expansions

Francois Belletti, Karthik Lakshmanan, Walid Krichene +7

Recommender system research suffers from a disconnect between the size of academic data sets and the scale of industrial production systems. In order to bridge that gap, we propose…

cs.DC2019★ 8 cited

High Performance Monte Carlo Simulation of Ising Model on TPU Clusters

Kun Yang, Yi-Fan Chen, Georgios Roumpos +2

Large-scale deep learning benefits from an emerging class of AI accelerators. Some of these accelerators' designs are general enough for compute-intensive applications beyond AI an…

cs.IR2019★ 16 cited

Scalable Realistic Recommendation Datasets through Fractal Expansions

Francois Belletti, Karthik Lakshmanan, Walid Krichene +2

Recommender System research suffers currently from a disconnect between the size of academic data sets and the scale of industrial production systems. In order to bridge that gap w…