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DeepMind AI weather forecaster beats world-class system (this time with Bayesian statistics) (www.nature.com)

submitted 1 week ago by zlatiah to c/science

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Google DeepMind has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) model of its kind to predict the weather more accurately than the best system currently in use... The system, called GenCast, is described today in Nature.

Conventional forecasts, including those from ENS, are based on mathematical models that simulate the laws of physics governing Earth’s atmosphere... GenCast, by contrast, has been trained only on historical weather data...

So yeah DeepMind is fucking going at it again.

Interestingly the model architecture seems to heavily integrate Bayesian maximum likelihood estimation in addition to their usual GNN-based deep learning approaches, which I didn't know is even possible. Their methods section states "[o]ur innovation in this work is an MLWP-based Forecast model, and we adopt a traditional NWP-based State inference approach

I'm not super familiar with Bayesian methods though so if anyone can add some more information I'd appreciate it

References:

The paper: Price I, Sanchez-Gonzalez A, Alet F et al. Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08252-9
The codebase: google-deepmind/graphcast. GitHub, accessed 2024-12-05. https://github.com/google-deepmind/graphcast

DeepMind AI weather forecaster beats world-class system (www.nature.com)

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