The study evaluates deep learning surrogates for wildfire spread prediction, training four architectures on 10,584 high‑resolution simulations from Catalonia. Results show that only surface fuel load significantly predicts burn probability, and convolutional models mainly use distance to the fire front while a transformer model emphasizes fuel and terrain. When applied to a new region without retraining, the models still perform reasonably, with only a modest accuracy drop.
By Marcin Lawenda, Aleksandra Krasicka, David Caballero, Luis Torres, {\L}ukasz Szustak
arXiv:2606. 02278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State-space models are traditionally based on physical knowledge, but multi-step predictions from these physical models can be poor due to model inaccuracy.
By Ruiyuan Li, Ajay Seth, Manon Kok
arXiv:2607. 00460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting complex spatiotemporal dynamics in physical processes often demands computationally expensive numerical methods or data-driven neural networks that suffer from high training costs, error accumulation, and limited generalizability to unseen parameters.
By Xin-Yang Liu, Xiantao Fan, Jian-Xun Wang
arXiv:2606. 04143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate flood forecasting is essential for mitigating disaster risks and protecting communities.
By Tewodros Syum Gebre, Jagrati Talreja, Leila Hashemi-Beni
Physics-informed neural operators (PINOs) aim to learn solution operators for partial differential equations by using the governing physics as supervision, rather than relying solely on paired input-output simulation data. By incorporating physical constraints into the training objective, PINOs combine the cross-instance generalization of neural operators with the data efficiency of physics-informed learning.
arXiv:2608. 13215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting the long-horizon evolution of mechanical systems from position-only observations is a pivotal yet difficult task, as hidden velocities and trajectory-specific physical properties must be inferred simultaneously.
By Tianshuo Zhang, Xianglei Xing, Wenzhe Zhai, Jia Gao, He Cao
arXiv:2606. 06164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural operators (PINOs) aim to learn solution operators for partial differential equations by using the governing physics as supervision, rather than relying solely on paired input-output simulation data.
By Nanxi Chen, Chuanjie Cui, Airong Chen, Sifan Wang, Rujin Ma
arXiv:2606. 11676v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional wildfire models rely on rigid, low-dimensional parameters and static fuel maps, frequently underpredicting fire spread.
By Maksym Zhenirovskyy, Ion Matei, Rohit Vuppala, Takuya Kurihana, Hon Yung Wonga
The paper presents a lightweight vision‑language encoder paired with a compact multi‑layer perceptron to estimate flare combustion efficiency from low‑cost thermal video. The trained model is deployed via a user‑friendly GUI that overlays efficiency values on each frame, tracks real‑time trends, visualizes distribution across the video, and exports CSV reports. In a six‑month trial, the system maintained 99% uptime with under 15 minutes of weekly maintenance.
By Afeefa Azam, Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi, Fares Ossama Abdelhafez, Divya Velayudhan, Maregu Assefa Habtie, Hamad Karki, Khalid Yousef Al Awadhi, Naoufel Werghi
Drift Field Net (DFN) is a deep neural network that predicts ocean surface flow fields from satellite observations, trained via a two‑stage strategy combining simulated data pretraining and Lagrangian fine‑tuning with an advection‑consistent loss. DFN improves particle trajectory forecasts, reducing mean positioning error by 20 km over a 7‑day period compared to an operational physics‑based model, and further decreasing error by 10 km when the advection loss is applied. The study demonstrates that incorporating Lagrangian constraints into deep‑learning training enhances ocean surface flow prediction accuracy.
By Th\'eo Archambault, Pierre Garcia, Mattia Romero, Anastase Charantonis, Dominique B\'er\'eziat
arXiv:2504. 12075v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the present work, a generative deep learning framework combining a Co-optimized Variational Autoencoder (Co-VAE) with quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) techniques is developed to enable inverse molecular design of fuels.
By Kiran K. Yalamanchi, Pinaki Pal, Balaji Mohan, Abdullah S. AlRamadan, Jihad A. Badra, Yuanjiang Pei
The paper presents modular deep learning augmentations for next‑day wildfire spread prediction, including wind‑ and slope‑conditioned attention biases, physics‑feature retrieval‑augmented output correction, and fire‑conditioned dual‑stream gating. These modules are evaluated on five backbone models using the Next Day Wildfire Spread benchmark, with staged ablations, directional audits, retrieval perturbations, calibration measures, and computational comparisons. The best augmented SwinUNETR model achieves an F1 score of 0.4216 and an AUC‑PR of 0.3673, while a mixed ensemble reaches 0.4292 and 0.3790, demonstrating that predictive performance, operational trustworthiness, and computational practicality can be simultaneously improved.
By Miguel Esparza, Aydin Ayanzadeh Ahmad Mousavi, Ali Mostafavi