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most citedSpherical Fourier Neural Operators: Learning Stable Dynamics on the Sphere

53 citations · 170 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.LG2026

Counterfactual Predictions in Scientific Emulators Without Controlled Experiments

Dingling Yao, Kahaan Gandhi, Valentin Duruisseaux +3

Many scientific questions require reasoning about what was never observed: What if the conditions, interventions, or history had been different? Models can predict accurately on ob…

cs.LG2026

A library for differentiable signal processing and machine learning on the sphere

Thorsten Kurth, Max Rietmann, Mauro Bisson +6

The two-dimensional sphere embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space S2, plays a central role in a variety of scientific and engineering domains, including geophysics, planetar…

astro-ph.EP2026

Accelerating Chemical Kinetics for Exoplanet Atmospheres using Neural Networks

Isaac Malsky, Xi Zhang, Tiffany Kataria +5

Observations increasingly reveal the coupled radiative, chemical, and dynamical processes that shape exoplanet atmospheres. Interpreting these atmospheres requires models that can…

physics.ao-ph2026

Anomalous Diffusion of Tropical Cyclones Observed in Huge Ensembles of Hindcasts

Abdoul R. Zeba, William D. Collins, Ankur Mahesh +5

We examine whether tropical cyclones (TCs) obey ordinary Brownian or anomalous diffusion using a huge ensemble (HENS) of hindcasts for summer 2023. Anomalous diffusion has been inf…

stat.AP2026

Surface temperature extremes produced by huge machine learning hindcasts of summer 2023

Mark Risser, Ankur Mahesh, William D. Collins +6

The summer of 2023 brought record-breaking heat extremes across the globe. In this work, we investigate how much worse these extremes might have become, given identical large-scale…

physics.ao-ph2026

Examining Fast Radiatively Driven Responses Using Machine-Learning Weather Emulators

Ankur Mahesh, William D. Collins, Travis A. O'Brien +10

The response of the climate system to increased greenhouse gases and other radiative perturbations is governed by a combination of fast and slow feedbacks. Slow feedbacks are typic…

cs.LG2026

Demystifying Data-Driven Probabilistic Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

Jean Kossaifi, Nikola Kovachki, Morteza Mardani +15

The recent revolution in data-driven methods for weather forecasting has lead to a fragmented landscape of complex, bespoke architectures and training strategies, obscuring the fun…

physics.geo-ph2025

Data-driven solar forecasting enables near-optimal economic decisions

Zhixiang Dai, Minghao Yin, Xuanhong Chen +27

Solar energy adoption is critical to achieving net-zero emissions. However, it remains difficult for many industrial and commercial actors to decide on whether they should adopt di…

eess.IV2025

Physics-Aware Neural Operators for Direct Inversion in 3D Photoacoustic Tomography

Jiayun Wang, Yousuf Aborahama, Arya Khokhar +10

Learning physics-constrained inverse operators-rather than post-processing physics-based reconstructions-is a broadly applicable strategy for problems with expensive forward models…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

FourCastNet 3: A geometric approach to probabilistic machine-learning weather forecasting at scale

Boris Bonev, Thorsten Kurth, Ankur Mahesh +7

FourCastNet 3 advances global weather modeling by implementing a scalable, geometric machine learning (ML) approach to probabilistic ensemble forecasting. The approach is designed…

cs.LG2025

Principled Approaches for Extending Neural Architectures to Function Spaces for Operator Learning

Julius Berner, Miguel Liu-Schiaffini, Jean Kossaifi +4

A wide range of scientific problems, such as those described by continuous-time dynamical systems and partial differential equations (PDEs), are naturally formulated on function sp…

cs.LG2025

Attention on the Sphere

Boris Bonev, Max Rietmann, Andrea Paris +2

We introduce a generalized attention mechanism for spherical domains, enabling Transformer architectures to natively process data defined on the two-dimensional sphere - a critical…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

A Library for Learning Neural Operators

Jean Kossaifi, Nikola Kovachki, Zongyi Li +8

We present NeuralOperator, an open-source Python library for operator learning. Neural operators generalize neural networks to maps between function spaces instead of finite-dimens…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 1 cited

Data-driven Surface Solar Irradiance Estimation using Neural Operators at Global Scale

Alberto Carpentieri, Jussi Leinonen, Jeff Adie +3

Accurate surface solar irradiance (SSI) forecasting is essential for optimizing renewable energy systems, particularly in the context of long-term energy planning on a global scale…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 1 cited

Modulated Adaptive Fourier Neural Operators for Temporal Interpolation of Weather Forecasts

Jussi Leinonen, Boris Bonev, Thorsten Kurth +1

Weather and climate data are often available at limited temporal resolution, either due to storage limitations, or in the case of weather forecast models based on deep learning, th…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Exploring the design space of deep-learning-based weather forecasting systems

Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, Jean Kossaifi, Boris Bonev +4

Despite tremendous progress in developing deep-learning-based weather forecasting systems, their design space, including the impact of different design choices, is yet to be well u…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 4 cited

Huge Ensembles Part I: Design of Ensemble Weather Forecasts using Spherical Fourier Neural Operators

Ankur Mahesh, William Collins, Boris Bonev +13

Studying low-likelihood high-impact extreme weather events in a warming world is a significant and challenging task for current ensemble forecasting systems. While these systems pr…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Huge Ensembles Part II: Properties of a Huge Ensemble of Hindcasts Generated with Spherical Fourier Neural Operators

Ankur Mahesh, William Collins, Boris Bonev +12

In Part I, we created an ensemble based on Spherical Fourier Neural Operators. As initial condition perturbations, we used bred vectors, and as model perturbations, we used multipl…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 11 cited

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…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Pretraining Codomain Attention Neural Operators for Solving Multiphysics PDEs

Md Ashiqur Rahman, Robert Joseph George, Mogab Elleithy +9

Existing neural operator architectures face challenges when solving multiphysics problems with coupled partial differential equations (PDEs) due to complex geometries, interactions…

cs.LG2024★ 10 cited

Neural Operators with Localized Integral and Differential Kernels

Miguel Liu-Schiaffini, Julius Berner, Boris Bonev +3

Neural operators learn mappings between function spaces, which is practical for learning solution operators of PDEs and other scientific modeling applications. Among them, the Four…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 24 cited

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-ph2023★ 29 cited

ACE: A fast, skillful learned global atmospheric model for climate prediction

Oliver Watt-Meyer, Gideon Dresdner, Jeremy McGibbon +9

Existing ML-based atmospheric models are not suitable for climate prediction, which requires long-term stability and physical consistency. We present ACE (AI2 Climate Emulator), a…

cs.LG2023★ 53 cited

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…