Summary of Stc-vit: Spatio Temporal Continuous Vision Transformer For Weather Forecasting, by Hira Saleem et al.
STC-ViT: Spatio Temporal Continuous Vision Transformer for Weather Forecasting
by Hira Saleem, Flora Salim, Cormac Purcell
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Feb 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 This research paper presents a novel approach to operational weather forecasting using Spatio-Temporal Continuous Vision Transformers (STC-ViT). The transformer-based model, STC-ViT, is designed to learn the continuous spatio-temporal features of the dynamical weather system. It incorporates Neural ODE layers with multi-head attention mechanism to model the complex weather dynamics. A customized physics-informed loss function is also defined to penalize predictions that deviate from physical laws. The proposed approach is evaluated against operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models and state-of-the-art data-driven models, showing competitive performance for global forecasting. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study creates a new way to predict the weather using computer models. It uses a special kind of AI called transformers that are good at recognizing patterns in images. The model is designed to understand how the weather changes over time and space. To make sure the predictions are accurate, the researchers added a special rule that makes sure the model doesn’t go against the laws of physics. The new approach was tested against other ways of predicting the weather and showed it can be just as good, but much faster. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Loss function * Multi head attention * Transformer * Vit
