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In this paper, we explore the possibility of building a unified foundation model that can be adapted to both vision-only and text-only tasks. Starting from BERT and ViT, we design a unified transformer consisting of modality-specific…

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Efficient traffic management is crucial for maintaining urban mobility, especially in densely populated areas where congestion, accidents, and delays can lead to frustrating and expensive commutes. However, existing prediction methods face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Xuhong Wang , Ding Wang , Liang Chen , Yilun Lin

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have shown great promise in their ability to accelerate novel materials discovery. As researchers and domain scientists seek to unify and consolidate chemical knowledge, the case for models with…

Foundation Models (FMs) such as GPT-4 encoded with vast knowledge and powerful emergent abilities have achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing and computer vision tasks. Grounding FMs by adapting them to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yan Kang , Tao Fan , Hanlin Gu , Xiaojin Zhang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Unlike natural language processing and computer vision, the development of Foundation Models (FMs) for time series forecasting is blocked due to data scarcity. While recent efforts are focused on building such FMs by unlocking the potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Qingxiang Liu , Xu Liu , Chenghao Liu , Qingsong Wen , Yuxuan Liang

Foundation models (FMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm, enabling a diverse range of data analytics and knowledge discovery tasks across scientific fields. Inspired by the success of FMs, particularly large language models, researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Sean Bin Yang , Ying Sun , Yunyao Cheng , Yan Lin , Kristian Torp , Jilin Hu

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) drives progress in numerous scientific and engineering fields, yet high-fidelity simulations remain computationally prohibitive. While machine learning approaches offer computing acceleration, they…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-12 Rui Zhang , Qi Meng , Han Wan , Yang Liu , Zhi-Ming Ma , Hao Sun

Interactive world models that simulate object dynamics are crucial for robotics, VR, and AR. However, it remains a significant challenge to learn physics-consistent dynamics models from limited real-world video data, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yu Yang , Zhilu Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Yihan Zeng , Hui Li , Wangmeng Zuo

Recent advances in mechanistic interpretability have revealed that large language models (LLMs) develop internal representations corresponding not only to concrete entities but also distinct, human-understandable abstract concepts and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rio Alexa Fear , Payel Mukhopadhyay , Michael McCabe , Alberto Bietti , Miles Cranmer

Accurately predicting when and how materials fail is critical to designing safe, reliable structures, mechanical systems, and engineered components that operate under stress. Yet, fracture behavior remains difficult to model across the…

Amidst the rapid advancements in generative language models, the investigation of how training data shapes the performance of GPT models is still emerging. This paper presents GPTfluence, a novel approach that leverages a featurized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yekun Chai , Qingyi Liu , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Qiwei Peng , Hua Wu

Foundation models (FM) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks (especially in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision), primarily attributed to their ability to comprehend instructions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Hongling Zheng , Li Shen , Anke Tang , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Bo Du , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

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

In scientific and engineering domains, modeling high-dimensional complex systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) remains challenging in terms of physical consistency and numerical stability. However, existing approaches,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Siqi Wang , Mengmeng Zhang , Yude Bu , Chaozhou Mou

Reliable object manipulation requires understanding physical properties that vary across objects and environments. Vision-language model (VLM) planners can reason about friction and stability in general terms; however, they often cannot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Haoyang Li , Yang You , Hao Su , Leonidas Guibas

Foundation Models (FMs), such as LLaMA, BERT, GPT, ViT, and CLIP, have demonstrated remarkable success in a wide range of applications, driven by their ability to leverage vast amounts of data for pre-training. However, optimizing FMs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Sixing Yu , J. Pablo Muñoz , Ali Jannesari

Data analysis focuses on harnessing advanced statistics, programming, and machine learning techniques to extract valuable insights from vast datasets. An increasing volume and variety of research emerged, addressing datasets of diverse…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Chen Liang , Donghua Yang , Zheng Liang , Zhiyu Liang , Tianle Zhang , Boyu Xiao , Yuqing Yang , Wenqi Wang , Hongzhi Wang

The pervasive uncertainty and dynamic nature of real-world environments present significant challenges for the widespread implementation of machine-driven Intelligent Decision-Making (IDM) systems. Consequently, IDM should possess the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ying Wen , Ziyu Wan , Ming Zhou , Shufang Hou , Zhe Cao , Chenyang Le , Jingxiao Chen , Zheng Tian , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang

Scientific foundation models hold great promise for advancing nuclear and particle physics by improving analysis precision and accelerating discovery. Yet, progress in this field is often limited by the lack of openly available large scale…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-09-09 Shuhang Li , Yi Huang , David Park , Xihaier Luo , Haiwang Yu , Yeonju Go , Christopher Pinkenburg , Yuewei Lin , Shinjae Yoo , Joseph Osborn , Christof Roland , Jin Huang , Yihui Ren

Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced Earth sciences, yet its full potential in to comprehensively modeling Earth's complex dynamics remains unrealized. Geoscience foundation models (GFMs) emerge as a paradigm-shifting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Hao Zhang , Jin-Jian Xu , Hong-Wei Cui , Lin Li , Yaowen Yang , Chao-Sheng Tang , Niklas Boers