Summary of Weatherformer: a Pretrained Encoder Model For Learning Robust Weather Representations From Small Datasets, by Adib Hasan and Mardavij Roozbehani and Munther Dahleh
WeatherFormer: A Pretrained Encoder Model for Learning Robust Weather Representations from Small Datasets
by Adib Hasan, Mardavij Roozbehani, Munther Dahleh
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary WeatherFormer, a transformer-based model, is designed to extract robust weather patterns from limited data. It addresses the challenge of modeling complex weather dynamics with small datasets, which hinders prediction tasks in agriculture, epidemiology, and climate science. The model was pre-trained on 39 years of satellite measurements across the Americas. WeatherFormer achieves state-of-the-art performance in soybean yield prediction and influenza forecasting after fine-tuning. Key innovations include spatiotemporal encoding for geographical, annual, and seasonal variations, adapting transformers to continuous weather data, and a pre-training strategy that learns robust representations. This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of pre-trained transformer models for weather-dependent applications across multiple domains. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper introduces WeatherFormer, a model that helps predict weather patterns from limited information. It’s like a superpower for farmers, doctors, and scientists who need to understand how weather affects what we grow or how diseases spread. The researchers used 39 years of satellite data to train the model, making it really good at predicting things like soybean yields and when flu seasons will start. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Spatiotemporal » Transformer
