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20192026
most citedHow to Train Your Flare Prediction Model: Revisiting Robust Sampling of Rare Events

75 citations · 97 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

SWAN-SF-V2: A Multivariate Time Series Dataset for Space Weather Data Analytics; Now with AIA and Weighted SHARP Parameters

Dustin Kempton, Griffin Goodwin, Reet Gupta +4

Since its original publication in 2020, the SWAN-SF dataset has been cited in over 300 research publications. Here we describe a comprehensive update to the original multivariate t…

cs.LG2026

Neural Operator based Multi-Field Reconstruction of Inner Solar Boundary State

Vignesh Kumar Pandian Sathia, Reza Mansouri, Dustin J. Kempton +2

The Solar wind is a continuous flow of charged particles emanating from the solar surface and governed by complex, interacting magnetohydrodynamic processes. Accurate specification…

astro-ph.SR2026

Developing Machine Learning Models of Subgrid Turbulent Transport for Quiet Sun 3D Radiative Hydrodynamic Simulations

Rimsha Hameed Syeda, Dustin Kempton, Viacheslav Sadykov +2

Numerical modeling of solar plasma dynamics is affected by the resolution of the computational grid. This often requires the estimation of subgrid processes related to the small-sc…

astro-ph.SR2026

Cluster-Weighted Training of Deep Surrogate Models for Subgrid Turbulent Transport

Rimsha Hameed Syeda, Dustin Kempton, Viacheslav Sadykov +2

Turbulence in the solar interior and atmosphere plays a crucial role in energy transport, yet modeling its subgrid-scale effects remains a major challenge. This study leverages mac…

astro-ph.IM2026

Describing the swdatatoolkit: A Space Weather Data Analysis Library

Dustin Kempton, Griffin Goodwin, Tarun Kumar Reddy Thippareddy +3

swdatatoolkit is a Python-based scientific software library designed to support the acquisition, preprocessing, and analysis of solar and space weather data. The toolkit consolidat…

cs.LG2025

Toward Data-Driven Surrogates of the Solar Wind with Spherical Fourier Neural Operator

Reza Mansouri, Dustin Kempton, Pete Riley +1

The solar wind, a continuous stream of charged particles from the Sun's corona, shapes the heliosphere and impacts space systems near Earth. Variations such as high-speed streams a…

cs.LG2025

Autoregressive Surrogate Modeling of the Solar Wind with Spherical Fourier Neural Operator

Reza Mansouri, Dustin Kempton, Pete Riley +1

The solar wind, a continuous outflow of charged particles from the Sun's corona, shapes the heliosphere and impacts space systems near Earth. Accurate prediction of features such a…

astro-ph.SR2025

Operational and Exploration Requirements and Research Capabilities for SEP Environment Monitoring and Forecasting

Viacheslav Sadykov, Petrus Martens, Dustin Kempton +15

Mitigating risks posed by solar energetic particles (SEPs) to operations and exploration in space and Earth's atmosphere motivates the development of advanced, synergistic approach…

cs.LG2024

FFAD: A Novel Metric for Assessing Generated Time Series Data Utilizing Fourier Transform and Auto-encoder

Yang Chen, Dustin J. Kempton, Rafal A. Angryk

The success of deep learning-based generative models in producing realistic images, videos, and audios has led to a crucial consideration: how to effectively assess the quality of…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 5 cited

Revisiting the Solar Research Cyberinfrastructure Needs: A White Paper of Findings and Recommendations

Gelu Nita, Azim Ahmadzadeh, Serena Criscuoli +15

Solar and Heliosphere physics are areas of remarkable data-driven discoveries. Recent advances in high-cadence, high-resolution multiwavelength observations, growing amounts of dat…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Multiscale IoU: A Metric for Evaluation of Salient Object Detection with Fine Structures

Azim Ahmadzadeh, Dustin J. Kempton, Yang Chen +1

General-purpose object-detection algorithms often dismiss the fine structure of detected objects. This can be traced back to how their proposed regions are evaluated. Our goal is t…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Towards Synthetic Multivariate Time Series Generation for Flare Forecasting

Yang Chen, Dustin J. Kempton, Azim Ahmadzadeh +1

One of the limiting factors in training data-driven, rare-event prediction algorithms is the scarcity of the events of interest resulting in an extreme imbalance in the data. There…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 75 cited

How to Train Your Flare Prediction Model: Revisiting Robust Sampling of Rare Events

Azim Ahmadzadeh, Berkay Aydin, Manolis K. Georgoulis +3

We present a case study of solar flare forecasting by means of metadata feature time series, by treating it as a prominent class-imbalance and temporally coherent problem. Taking f…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 9 cited

Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather Forecasting: A White Paper of Findings and Recommendations

Gelu Nita, Manolis Georgoulis, Irina Kitiashvili +38

The authors of this white paper met on 16-17 January 2020 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, for a 2-day workshop that brought together a group of heliophysicis…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 2 cited

Toward Filament Segmentation Using Deep Neural Networks

Azim Ahmadzadeh, Sushant S. Mahajan, Dustin J. Kempton +2

We use a well-known deep neural network framework, called Mask R-CNN, for identification of solar filaments in full-disk H-alpha images from Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). The…

cs.LG2019★ 1 cited

Challenges with Extreme Class-Imbalance and Temporal Coherence: A Study on Solar Flare Data

Azim Ahmadzadeh, Maxwell Hostetter, Berkay Aydin +4

In analyses of rare-events, regardless of the domain of application, class-imbalance issue is intrinsic. Although the challenges are known to data experts, their explicit impact on…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 3 cited

A Curated Image Parameter Dataset from Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission

Azim Ahmadzadeh, Dustin J. Kempton, Rafal A. Angryk

We provide a large image parameter dataset extracted from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission's AIA instrument, for the period of January 2011 through the current date, wi…