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most citedFoundation Models for Environmental Science: A Survey of Emerging Frontiers

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cs.LG2026

Staying on the Attractor: Supervising Neural Surrogates of 3D Turbulence Where They Leave It

Yilong Dai, Shaswata Mitra, Raj Patel +7

Neural surrogates are trained to predict 3D turbulent flows in place of direct numerical simulation (DNS). For chaotic flows, the goal is short-term pointwise accuracy followed by…

cs.LG2026

SolarFlowRefiner: Refinement-Aware Flow Matching for Surface Solar Radiation Downscaling

Udbhav Srivastava, Antonita Racheal, Yiheng Chen +2

High-resolution surface solar radiation (SSR) is important for solar forecasting and grid operation. However, physically consistent reanalysis products are too coarse to resolve lo…

physics.flu-dyn2026

TIDE: A Physically Diverse 3D Turbulence Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Scientific Machine Learning

Yilong Dai, Yiming Sun, Yiheng Chen +4

Turbulence is a central testbed for machine learning on physical dynamics because its governing laws are known exactly. However, most existing studies remain in 2D, while 3D turbul…

cs.LG2026

PIER: Physics-Informed Environmental Retrieval for Time-Series Modeling

Shiyuan Luo, Runlong Yu, Chonghao Qiu +6

Accurate modeling of environmental systems is fundamental to scientific understanding and decision-making, yet remains challenging because observations are limited and physical dyn…

cs.LG2026

Flow Learners for PDEs: Toward a Physics-to-Physics Paradigm for Scientific Computing

Yilong Dai, Shengyu Chen, Xiaowei Jia +1

Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern nearly every physical process in science and engineering, but solving them at scale remains prohibitively expensive. Generative AI has…

cs.LG2026

Retrieval-Augmented Multi-scale Framework for County-Level Crop Yield Prediction Across Large Regions

Yiming Sun, Qi Cheng, Licheng Liu +3

This paper proposes a new method for crop yield prediction, which is essential for developing management strategies, informing insurance assessments, and ensuring long-term food se…

cs.LG2026

Role-Aware Conditional Inference for Spatiotemporal Ecosystem Carbon Flux Prediction

Yiming Sun, Runlong Yu, Rongchao Dong +6

Accurate prediction of terrestrial ecosystem carbon fluxes (e.g., CO, GPP, and CH) is essential for understanding the global carbon cycle and managing its impacts. However,…

cs.LG2026

Learning PDE Solvers with Physics and Data: A Unifying View of Physics-Informed Neural Networks and Neural Operators

Yilong Dai, Shengyu Chen, Ziyi Wang +4

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are central to scientific modeling. Modern workflows increasingly rely on learning-based components to support model reuse, inference, and int…

physics.flu-dyn2026

PEST: Physics-Enhanced Swin Transformer for 3D Turbulence Simulation

Yilong Dai, Shengyu Chen, Xiaowei Jia +2

Accurate simulation of turbulent flows is fundamental to scientific and engineering applications. Direct numerical simulation (DNS) offers the highest fidelity but is computational…

cs.LG2025

GREAT: Generalizable Representation Enhancement via Auxiliary Transformations for Zero-Shot Environmental Prediction

Shiyuan Luo, Chonghao Qiu, Runlong Yu +2

Environmental modeling faces critical challenges in predicting ecosystem dynamics across unmonitored regions due to limited and geographically imbalanced observation data. This cha…

cs.LG2025

Geo-Aware Models for Stream Temperature Prediction across Different Spatial Regions and Scales

Shiyuan Luo, Runlong Yu, Shengyu Chen +4

Understanding environmental ecosystems is vital for the sustainable management of our planet. However,existing physics-based and data-driven models often fail to generalize to vary…

cs.ET2025

Truth Without Comprehension: A BlueSky Agenda for Steering the Fourth Mathematical Crisis

Runlong Yu, Xiaowei Jia

Machine-generated proofs are poised to reach large-scale, human-unreadable artifacts. They foreshadow what we call the Fourth Mathematical Crisis. This crisis crystallizes around t…

cs.LG2025

Learning to Retrieve for Environmental Knowledge Discovery: An Augmentation-Adaptive Self-Supervised Learning Framework

Shiyuan Luo, Runlong Yu, Chonghao Qiu +5

The discovery of environmental knowledge depends on labeled task-specific data, but is often constrained by the high cost of data collection. Existing machine learning approaches u…

cs.ET2025

RAG for Geoscience: What We Expect, Gaps and Opportunities

Runlong Yu, Shiyuan Luo, Rahul Ghosh +3

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances language models by combining retrieval with generation. However, its current workflow remains largely text-centric, limiting its appli…

cs.ET2025

LSDTs: LLM-Augmented Semantic Digital Twins for Adaptive Knowledge-Intensive Infrastructure Planning

Naiyi Li, Zihui Ma, Runlong Yu +1

Digital Twins (DTs) offer powerful tools for managing complex infrastructure systems, but their effectiveness is often limited by challenges in integrating unstructured knowledge.…

cs.CV2025

From Pixels to Places: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Image Geolocalization Ability in Large Language Models

Lingyao Li, Runlong Yu, Qikai Hu +4

Image geolocalization, the task of identifying the geographic location depicted in an image, is important for applications in crisis response, digital forensics, and location-based…

cs.CY2025

LLMs as World Models: Data-Driven and Human-Centered Pre-Event Simulation for Disaster Impact Assessment

Lingyao Li, Dawei Li, Zhenhui Ou +5

Efficient simulation is essential for enhancing proactive preparedness for sudden-onset disasters such as earthquakes. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) as world…

cs.AI2025

LLM-based Evaluation Policy Extraction for Ecological Modeling

Qi Cheng, Licheng Liu, Qing Zhu +4

Evaluating ecological time series is critical for benchmarking model performance in many important applications, including predicting greenhouse gas fluxes, capturing carbon-nitrog…

cs.LG2025

Multi-Scale Graph Learning for Anti-Sparse Downscaling

Yingda Fan, Runlong Yu, Janet R. Barclay +4

Water temperature can vary substantially even across short distances within the same sub-watershed. Accurate prediction of stream water temperature at fine spatial resolutions (i.e…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Foundation Models for Environmental Science: A Survey of Emerging Frontiers

Runlong Yu, Shengyu Chen, Yiqun Xie +3

Modeling environmental ecosystems is essential for effective resource management, sustainable development, and understanding complex ecological processes. However, traditional data…

cs.LG2025

A Survey of Foundation Models for Environmental Science

Runlong Yu, Shengyu Chen, Yiqun Xie +1

Modeling environmental ecosystems is essential for effective resource management, sustainable development, and understanding complex ecological processes. However, traditional meth…

cs.LG2025

Physics-Guided Foundation Model for Scientific Discovery: An Application to Aquatic Science

Runlong Yu, Chonghao Qiu, Robert Ladwig +3

Physics-guided machine learning (PGML) has become a prevalent approach in studying scientific systems due to its ability to integrate scientific theories for enhancing machine lear…

cs.LG2024

Adaptive Process-Guided Learning: An Application in Predicting Lake DO Concentrations

Runlong Yu, Chonghao Qiu, Robert Ladwig +4

This paper introduces a \textit{Process-Guided Learning (Pril)} framework that integrates physical models with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to enhance the prediction of dissolv…

cs.NE2024

Evolution-based Feature Selection for Predicting Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations in Lakes

Runlong Yu, Robert Ladwig, Xiang Xu +4

Accurate prediction of dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations in lakes requires a comprehensive study of phenological patterns across ecosystems, highlighting the need for precise se…