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2026 · Journal of Computational Physics

Binned Spectral Power Loss

Binned spectral power loss for improved prediction of chaotic systems

The paper starts from a common problem in chaotic forecasting: neural networks often fit low-frequency structure more easily than high-frequency content, which leads to spectral bias and poorer long-horizon predictions. To address that, it introduces a binned spectral power loss that measures errors across frequency bands rather than only in physical space.

The reported result is more stable forecasting and better spectral fidelity on high-dimensional chaotic systems and turbulent-flow benchmarks. The main conclusion is that loss design alone can materially improve multiscale prediction quality without changing the underlying network architecture.

2026 · Machine Learning: Earth

Multimodal Atmospheric Super-Resolution

Multimodal atmospheric super-resolution with deep generative models

The background for this work is that atmospheric reconstruction often relies on coarse fields or sparse observations, while downstream science needs sharper high-resolution states. The paper uses score-based diffusion modeling to combine low-resolution inputs and sparse sensor observations for atmospheric super-resolution.

The results show reconstruction of ERA5 atmospheric states from coarse representations and IGRA radiosonde data, together with uncertainty estimates. The main takeaway is that a diffusion-based multimodal framework can fuse heterogeneous observations while preserving fine-scale atmospheric structure.

2026 · arXiv

Adaptive Diffusion Posterior Sampling

Adaptive Diffusion Posterior Sampling for Data and Model Fusion of Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

This work is motivated by the difficulty of producing probabilistic long-horizon forecasts for nonlinear turbulent systems while still being able to assimilate new observations. The paper builds a diffusion-based surrogate forecasting framework with a multi-step autoregressive objective to improve rollout stability over long time windows.

The reported results include probabilistic forecasting, adaptive sensor placement through uncertainty or error-estimation modules, and data assimilation via diffusion posterior sampling without retraining the surrogate. The conclusion is that generative surrogates can support both forecasting and observation-driven correction in complex flow systems.

2025 · Physical Review Fluids

Differentiable Turbulence

Differentiable turbulence: Closure as a partial differential equation constrained optimization

The paper addresses the challenge of learning subgrid-scale closures that remain useful when embedded inside a turbulence solver, rather than only matching offline targets. It uses an end-to-end differentiable LES setup with physics-inspired neural architectures for two-dimensional turbulence.

The results show that small-scale nonlocal information is especially important for SGS modeling, while larger-scale features improve pointwise accuracy. The broader conclusion is that differentiable solver-in-the-loop training can produce closures that generalize across Reynolds numbers and forcing conditions, with uncertainty quantified through ensembles.

2025 · arXiv

MoWE: A Mixture of Weather Experts

MoWE: A Mixture of Weather Experts

MoWE introduces a mixture-of-experts framework that does not train a completely new forecaster from scratch. Instead, it combines the outputs of existing weather models using a Vision Transformer-based gating network that learns weights at each grid point.

The results show a deterministic forecast that outperforms any individual expert in RMSE, with the paper reporting improvements of up to about 10% over the strongest AI weather model at a two-day lead time. The main conclusion is that intelligently combining strong existing models can be both more accurate and more compute-efficient than retraining a new large weather model from scratch.

2024 · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Divide and Conquer for Chaotic Dynamics

Divide and conquer: Learning chaotic dynamical systems with multistep penalty neural ordinary differential equations

Chaotic dynamics are notoriously hard to learn with neural ODEs because training becomes highly non-convex and gradients can grow unstable over long trajectories. This paper addresses that by breaking trajectories into non-overlapping windows and penalizing discontinuities between predicted segments.

The method is evaluated on Lorenz, Kuramoto-Sivashinsky, Kolmogorov flow, and ERA5 atmosphere data, where it delivers reliable short-term forecasts together with improved invariant statistics. The conclusion is that trajectory windowing and multistep penalties make NODE training substantially more practical for chaotic systems.