5 papers
ExPLoRA: Parameter-Efficient Extended Pre-Training to Adapt Vision Transformers under Domain Shifts
Samar Khanna, Medhanie Irgau, David B. Lobell +1
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) techniques such as low-rank adaptation (LoRA) can effectively adapt large pre-trained foundation models to downstream tasks using only a smal…
Large Language Models are Geographically Biased
Rohin Manvi, Samar Khanna, Marshall Burke +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) inherently carry the biases contained in their training corpora, which can lead to the perpetuation of societal harm. As the impact of these foundation…
DiffusionSat: A Generative Foundation Model for Satellite Imagery
Samar Khanna, Patrick Liu, Linqi Zhou +5
Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results on many modalities including images, speech, and video. However, existing models are not tailored to support remote sensing…
Biases in estimates of air pollution impacts: the role of omitted variables and measurement errors
Dan M. Kluger, David B. Lobell, Art B. Owen
Observational studies often use linear regression to assess the effect of ambient air pollution on outcomes of interest, such as human health indicators or crop yields. Yet polluti…
GeoLLM: Extracting Geospatial Knowledge from Large Language Models
Rohin Manvi, Samar Khanna, Gengchen Mai +3
The application of machine learning (ML) in a range of geospatial tasks is increasingly common but often relies on globally available covariates such as satellite imagery that can…