arXiv AI

Discovering Dual-Origin Slow Wind from Solar Orbiter with Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Expanding SPHERE-JEPA: A Family of Statistical Regularizers for the Hypersphere

arXiv:2606. 17603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), preventing representation collapse by explicitly enforcing a uniform distribution on the unit hypersphere has proven to be effective.

By L\'eo Nicollier (CB, ATT), Enric Meinhardt-Llopis (CB), Max Dunitz (ATT), Marc Pic (ATT), Pablo Mus\'e (CB, IFUMI), Gabriele Facciolo (CB)
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

SolarFlowRefiner: Refinement-Aware Flow Matching for Surface Solar Radiation Downscaling

SolarFlowRefiner is a refinement‑aware flow‑matching framework designed to downscale high‑resolution surface solar radiation (SSR) fields from coarse ERA5 radiative variables and satellite channels. It first uses a conditional FlowMatch generator to predict a normalized correction to an upsampled ERA5 baseline, then trains a refiner on prediction‑conditioned states between the generator’s output and the target residual, exposing the refiner to the generator’s structured errors. The refinement objective is backpropagated through the FlowMatch sampler, enabling joint optimization of generation and correction, and experiments on an ERA5–SolarCube benchmark demonstrate consistent improvements over standalone generation and post‑hoc refinement.

By Udbhav Srivastava, Antonita Racheal, Yiheng Chen, Runlong Yu, Xinyue Ye
arXiv AI
Sep 24

PISCES: Physics-Informed Solar-wind Convolutional autoEncoder for Space-weather Anomaly Detection and Early Warning

PISCES is a physics‑informed convolutional autoencoder designed to detect solar‑wind transients for space‑weather early warning. Trained on OMNI solar‑wind data without catalog labels, its loss incorporates magnetic field consistency, temperature‑velocity relations, the Parker spiral angle, and temporal smoothness penalties. During inference, PISCES decomposes the anomaly score into magnetic, plasma, physics‑relation, and residual components, enabling alarms that can precede observed sudden commencements and positive sudden impulses.

By Kevin Lee, Alison J. March
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

SolarBench: A global solar energy nowcasting benchmark

SolarBench is an open global benchmark for image-based solar nowcasting that consolidates over six million sky and satellite images from 11 sites across a decade, paired with irradiance, PV output, and atmospheric data. The benchmark includes a toolbox for reproducible data access, processing, model development, and evaluation. Using SolarBench, the authors benchmark representative models, uncover a gap between average forecasting accuracy and the capture of rapid solar fluctuations, quantify predictability across cloud regimes, and demonstrate data‑efficient adaptation to new PV systems.

By Yuhao Nie, Stephen Campbell, Quentin Paletta, Liwenbo Zhang, Tao Jing, Samer Chaaraoui, Jonathan Giezendanner, Andea Scott, Tao Sun, Cong Feng, Max Aragon, Jacques Camier, Adam Jensen, Florian Kotthoff, Yuexing Yang, Yang Ming, Mengying Li, Stefanie Meilinger, Yupeng Wu, Adam Brandt, Sherrie Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21

COMPLEX: A Closed-Form Certified Embedding of Multiparameter Persistence Modules

COMPLEX is a closed‑form, training‑free embedding for multiparameter persistence modules that provides both an upper and a lower Lipschitz bound, enabling faithful feature representations. By slicing modules along a near‑diagonal net and embedding each slice with the certified PLACE/PALACE landmark map, the method guarantees that separated modules remain separated in the embedding. On Orbit benchmarks and molecular graph tasks, COMPLEX achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy, outperforming existing landmark, transformer, and graph‑based approaches.

By Sushovan Majhi, Atish Mitra, \v{Z}iga Virk, Pramita Bagchi