Summary of Archesweather & Archesweathergen: a Deterministic and Generative Model For Efficient Ml Weather Forecasting, by Guillaume Couairon et al.
ArchesWeather & ArchesWeatherGen: a deterministic and generative model for efficient ML weather forecasting
by Guillaume Couairon, Renu Singh, Anastase Charantonis, Christian Lessig, Claire Monteleoni
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a methodology to leverage deterministic weather models in the design of probabilistic weather models, leading to improved performance and reduced computing costs. The authors introduce ArchesWeather, a transformer-based deterministic model that improves upon Pangu-Weather by removing overrestrictive inductive priors. They then design a probabilistic weather model called ArchesWeatherGen based on flow matching, a modern variant of diffusion models, trained to project ArchesWeather’s predictions to the distribution of ERA5 weather states. The probabilistic model is shown to surpass IFS ENS and NeuralGCM on all WeatherBench headline variables except for NeuralGCM’s geopotential. ArchesWeatherGen generates 15-day weather trajectories at a rate of 1 minute per ensemble member on an A100 GPU card. The authors also aim to democratize the use of deterministic and generative machine learning models in weather forecasting research, making their code and models open source for reproducibility. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about finding better ways to predict the weather using computers. Right now, computers are good at showing what the weather will be like tomorrow or next week, but they’re not very good at showing all the different possibilities that could happen. This is important because it helps us prepare for things like big storms or heatwaves. The authors came up with a new way to make better predictions by using two types of models: one that’s really good at making detailed forecasts and another that’s great at showing all the possible outcomes. They tested their idea using some special computer code and found that it worked really well, even better than other popular weather prediction methods. They’re also sharing their code with others so that they can use it too, which should help make weather forecasting more accurate and useful for people around the world. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Probabilistic model » Transformer
