arXiv Machine Learning

Towards Large-Scale Heterogeneous Data Organization for Scientific Foundation Models: A Nuclear Fusion Case Study

arXiv AI
Oct 5

IGNITE Tokamak World Model Architecture

IGNITE is a generative world foundation model designed to simulate fusion plasma behavior in the DIII‑D National Fusion Facility. Trained in a self‑supervised way on more than a decade of unlabeled experimental data, its core dynamics model can predict entire discharges from specified actuator trajectories, which may be supplied or generated from textual prompts or desired outcomes. The architecture uses spatio‑temporal tokenizers for diverse input modalities—time‑series measurements, image sequences, and high‑resolution spectrograms—feeding an auto‑regressive backbone that can forecast discharges over an infinite horizon.

By Peter Steiner, Azarakhsh Jalalvand, Nathaniel Chen, Kouroche Bouchiat, Ricardo Shousha, SangKyeun Kim, Egemen Kolemen
arXiv AI
Sep 24

PhyMo: A Physical-Field Modality for Multimodal AI4Physics

The paper introduces PhyMo, a physics‑grounded multimodal framework that uses a physical‑field modality to represent heterogeneous measurements via PDE‑associated operators. It follows a three‑stage learning process: pretraining a physical‑field encoder with PDE residual supervision, aligning its representations with visual embeddings in a shared latent space, and applying downstream prediction heads to the fused multimodal representations. Experiments on five diverse physical datasets show that PhyMo outperforms the strongest baseline on each dataset, establishing its effectiveness for multimodal representation learning in AI for Physics.

By Henan Sun, Haitao Hu, Jin Liu, Jianfeng Zhang, Lujia Pan, Nuo Chen, Jia Li