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The increasing availability of geospatial foundation models has the potential to transform remote sensing applications such as land cover classification, environmental monitoring, and change detection. Despite promising benchmark results,…

Foundation models--such as GPT, CLIP, and DINO--have achieved revolutionary progress in the past several years and are commonly believed to be a promising approach for general-purpose AI. In particular, self-supervised learning is adopted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jinyuan Jia , Hongbin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Foundation models, i.e., very large deep learning models, have demonstrated impressive performances in various language and vision tasks that are otherwise difficult to reach using smaller-size models. The major success of GPT-type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yiqun Xie , Zhihao Wang , Weiye Chen , Zhili Li , Xiaowei Jia , Yanhua Li , Ruichen Wang , Kangyang Chai , Ruohan Li , Sergii Skakun

The large models, as predicted by scaling raw forecasts, have made groundbreaking progress in many fields, particularly in natural language generation tasks, where they have approached or even surpassed human levels. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Luping Wang , Sheng Chen , Linnan Jiang , Shu Pan , Runze Cai , Sen Yang , Fei Yang

Training foundation models, such as GPT-3 and PaLM, can be extremely expensive, often involving tens of thousands of GPUs running continuously for months. These models are typically trained in specialized clusters featuring fast,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Binhang Yuan , Yongjun He , Jared Quincy Davis , Tianyi Zhang , Tri Dao , Beidi Chen , Percy Liang , Christopher Re , Ce Zhang

Earth observation (EO) is crucial for monitoring environmental changes, responding to disasters, and managing natural resources. In this context, foundation models facilitate remote sensing image analysis to retrieve relevant geoinformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Francesc Marti-Escofet , Benedikt Blumenstiel , Linus Scheibenreif , Paolo Fraccaro , Konrad Schindler

Foundation models (FMs) have emerged as a transformative paradigm in medical image analysis, offering the potential to provide generalizable, task-agnostic solutions across a wide range of clinical tasks and imaging modalities. Their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Karma Phuntsho , Abdullah , Kyungmi Lee , Ickjai Lee , Euijoon Ahn

Foundation models (FMs) are changing the way medical images are analyzed by learning from large collections of unlabeled data. Instead of relying on manually annotated examples, FMs are pre-trained to learn general-purpose visual features…

Foundation models (FMs) are catalyzing a transformative shift in materials science (MatSci) by enabling scalable, general-purpose, and multimodal AI systems for scientific discovery. Unlike traditional machine learning models, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Minh-Hao Van , Prateek Verma , Chen Zhao , Xintao Wu

Geospatial foundation models (GFMs) have been proposed as generalizable backbones for disaster response, land-cover mapping, food-security monitoring, and other high-stakes Earth-observation tasks. Yet the published work about these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Isaac Corley , Nils Lehmann , Caleb Robinson , Gabriel Tseng , Anthony Fuller , Hamed Alemohammad , Evan Shelhamer , Jennifer Marcus , Hannah Kerner

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across a broad range of tasks but their knowledge and abilities in the geographic and geospatial domains are yet to be explored, despite potential wide-ranging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jonathan Roberts , Timo Lüddecke , Rehan Sheikh , Kai Han , Samuel Albanie

Exascale systems are predicted to have approximately one billion cores, assuming Gigahertz cores. Limitations on affordable network topologies for distributed memory systems of such massive scale bring new challenges to the current parallel…

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Telecom networks are becoming increasingly complex, with diversified deployment scenarios, multi-standards, and multi-vendor support. The intricate nature of the telecom network ecosystem presents challenges to effectively manage, operate,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Tahar Zanouda , Meysam Masoudi , Fitsum Gaim Gebre , Mischa Dohler

Existing deep learning methods for remote sensing image fusion often suffer from poor generalization when applied to unseen datasets due to the limited availability of real training data and the domain gap between different satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yongchuan Cui , Peng Liu , Yi Zeng

Foundation models refer to artificial intelligence (AI) models that are trained on massive amounts of data and demonstrate broad generalizability across various tasks with high accuracy. These models offer versatile, one-for-many or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Rina Bao , Erfan Darzi , Sheng He , Chuan-Heng Hsiao , Mohammad Arafat Hussain , Jingpeng Li , Atle Bjornerud , Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

Spatial intelligence, encompassing 3D reconstruction, perception, and reasoning, is fundamental to applications such as robotics, aerial imaging, and extended reality. A key enabler is the real-time, accurate estimation of core 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Wenyan Cong , Yiqing Liang , Yancheng Zhang , Ziyi Yang , Yan Wang , Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone , Chen Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Zhiwen Fan

Recent progress in self-supervision has shown that pre-training large neural networks on vast amounts of unsupervised data can lead to substantial increases in generalization to downstream tasks. Such models, recently coined foundation…

Biological foundation models (BioFMs), pretrained on large-scale biological sequences, have recently shown strong potential in providing meaningful representations for diverse downstream bioinformatics tasks. However, such models often rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yifan Wu , Jiyue Jiang , Xichen Ye , Yiqi Wang , Chang Zhou , Yitao Xu , Jiayang Chen , He Hu , Weizhong Zhang , Cheng Jin , Jiao Yuan , Yu Li

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has heightened interest in their potential for multimodal applications that integrate language and vision. This paper explores the capabilities of GPT-4V in the realms of geography, environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Chenjiao Tan , Qian Cao , Yiwei Li , Jielu Zhang , Xiao Yang , Huaqin Zhao , Zihao Wu , Zhengliang Liu , Hao Yang , Nemin Wu , Tao Tang , Xinyue Ye , Lilong Chai , Ninghao Liu , Changying Li , Lan Mu , Tianming Liu , Gengchen Mai

This paper assesses trending AI foundation models, especially emerging computer vision foundation models and their performance in natural landscape feature segmentation. While the term foundation model has quickly garnered interest from the…