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Foundation Models (FMs) serve as a general class for the development of artificial intelligence systems, offering broad potential for generalization across a spectrum of downstream tasks. Despite extensive research into self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yuhao Xu , Xinqi Liu , Keyu Duan , Yi Fang , Yu-Neng Chuang , Daochen Zha , Qiaoyu Tan

Advances in machine learning over the past decade have resulted in a proliferation of algorithmic applications for encoding, characterizing, and acting on complex data that may contain many high dimensional features. Recently, the emergence…

With the rise of electronic data, particularly Earth observation data, data-based geospatial modelling using machine learning (ML) has gained popularity in environmental research. Accurate geospatial predictions are vital for domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Diana Koldasbayeva , Polina Tregubova , Mikhail Gasanov , Alexey Zaytsev , Anna Petrovskaia , Evgeny Burnaev

Foundation models have emerged as critical components in a variety of artificial intelligence applications, and showcase significant success in natural language processing and several other domains. Meanwhile, the field of graph machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiawei Liu , Cheng Yang , Zhiyuan Lu , Junze Chen , Yibo Li , Mengmei Zhang , Ting Bai , Yuan Fang , Lichao Sun , Philip S. Yu , Chuan Shi

We present GeoGrid-Bench, a benchmark designed to evaluate the ability of foundation models to understand geo-spatial data in the grid structure. Geo-spatial datasets pose distinct challenges due to their dense numerical values, strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Bowen Jiang , Yangxinyu Xie , Xiaomeng Wang , Jiashu He , Joshua Bergerson , John K Hutchison , Jordan Branham , Camillo J Taylor , Tanwi Mallick

High-quality labeled geospatial datasets are essential for extracting insights and understanding our planet. Unfortunately, these datasets often do not span the entire globe and are limited to certain geographic regions where data was…

Traditional foundation models are pre-trained on broad datasets to reduce the training resources (e.g., time, energy, labeled samples) needed for fine-tuning a wide range of downstream tasks. However, traditional foundation models struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Majid Farhadloo , Arun Sharma , Mingzhou Yang , Bharat Jayaprakash , William Northrop , Shashi Shekhar

Foundation Models (FMs), e.g., large language models, possess attributes of intelligence which offer promise to endow a robot with the contextual understanding necessary to navigate complex, unstructured tasks in the wild. We see three core…

Current Earth observation benchmarks focus on measuring performance on diverse tasks and applications, typically measuring generalization in-distribution. But when models are deployed, they must generalize to myriad out-of-distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kelsey Doerksen , Hannah Kerner

Managing natural resources and mitigating risks from floods, droughts, wildfires, and landslides require models that can accurately predict climate-driven land-surface responses. Traditional models often struggle with spatial generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Nicholas Kraabel , Jiangtao Liu , Yuchen Bian , Daniel Kifer , Chaopeng Shen

Foundation models (FMs), such as GPT-4 and AlphaFold, are reshaping the landscape of scientific research. Beyond accelerating tasks such as hypothesis generation, experimental design, and result interpretation, they prompt a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Fan Liu , Jindong Han , Tengfei Lyu , Weijia Zhang , Zhe-Rui Yang , Lu Dai , Cancheng Liu , Hao Liu

Foundation models (FMs) are a popular topic of research in AI. Their ability to generalize to new tasks and datasets without retraining or needing an abundance of data makes them an appealing candidate for applications on specialist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Marga Don , Stijn Pinson , Blanca Guillen Cebrian , Yuki M. Asano

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly foundation models (FMs), have revolutionized medical image analysis, demonstrating strong zero- and few-shot performance across diverse medical imaging tasks, from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Praveenbalaji Rajendran , Mojtaba Safari , Wenfeng He , Mingzhe Hu , Shansong Wang , Jun Zhou , Xiaofeng Yang

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

While reinforcement learning from scratch has shown impressive results in solving sequential decision-making tasks with efficient simulators, real-world applications with expensive interactions require more sample-efficient agents.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Remo Sasso , Michelangelo Conserva , Dominik Jeurissen , Paulo Rauber

Significant progress in the development of highly adaptable and reusable Artificial Intelligence (AI) models is expected to have a significant impact on Earth science and remote sensing. Foundation models are pre-trained on large unlabeled…

Modeling environmental ecosystems is critical for the sustainability of our planet, but is extremely challenging due to the complex underlying processes driven by interactions amongst a large number of physical variables. As many variables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Shiyuan Luo , Juntong Ni , Shengyu Chen , Runlong Yu , Yiqun Xie , Licheng Liu , Zhenong Jin , Huaxiu Yao , Xiaowei Jia

Supporting the health and well-being of dynamic populations around the world requires governmental agencies, organizations and researchers to understand and reason over complex relationships between human behavior and local contexts in…

Foundation models (FM) have shown immense human-like capabilities for generating digital media. However, foundation models that can freely sense, interact, and actuate the physical domain is far from being realized. This is due to 1)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Minghui Zhao , Junxi Xia , Kaiyuan Hou , Yanchen Liu , Stephen Xia , Xiaofan Jiang

Foundation models (FMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in generalized intelligence, multimodal understanding, and adaptive learning across a wide range of domains. However, their deployment in harsh or austere environments --…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Evan Chen , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton , David J. Love