arXiv AI

Decision-Support and Modeling with Large Language Models for Geothermal Well Arrays

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Geo-Expert: Towards Expert-Level Geological Reasoning via Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2605. 24844v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) applied to Geology often hallucinate when reasoning about subsurface structures and deep-time evolution, current AI in Earth sciences predominantly targets surface remote sensing and GIS.

By Chenyou Guo, Zongqi Liu, Yizhou Zhang, Zhaorui Jiang, Ze Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Exploring the Role of LLMs in HPC Programming: A Survey

The survey reviews how Large Language Models (LLMs) are being used in High‑Performance Computing (HPC) programming, covering code generation, parallelization, frameworks, evaluation, and broader challenges. It finds that general‑purpose LLMs perform adequately on serial and OpenMP‑style tasks but struggle with distributed MPI workloads, while domain‑specialized models achieve higher accuracy yet are limited in scope and evaluation. The authors argue that LLMs will not replace HPC experts soon but can act as powerful collaborators, provided richer datasets, integration with performance tools, rigorous evaluation, and governance are developed.

By Strahinja Ljaljevic, Josep Jorba, Sergio Iserte
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

A Generative-AI Modeling Framework for Explainable Decision Support in Complex Geosteering Scenarios

The paper presents a real‑time, AI‑driven geosteering workflow that combines Generative Adversarial Networks for geological parameterization, ensemble methods for model updating, and dynamic programming optimization for decision support during directional drilling. The framework uses offline GAN training to generate realistic geology realizations and a Forward Neural Network to predict Logging‑While‑Drilling tool responses, enabling progressive reduction of subsurface uncertainty around the drilling bit. Tested on a low‑net‑to‑gross drilling scenario, the prototype delivers steering recommendations and automatically maps formation boundaries along the well path.

By Sergey Alyaev, Kristian Fossum, Hibat Errahmen Djecta, Jan Tveranger, Ahmed H. Elsheikh
arXiv AI
Sep 18

SCICONVBENCH: Benchmarking LLMs on Multi-Turn Clarification for Task Formulation in Computational Science

SCICONVBENCH is a benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on multi‑turn clarification tasks in computational science. It focuses on two key abilities: eliciting missing information (disambiguation) and resolving contradictory requests (inconsistency resolution) across four domains—fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, materials science, and partial differential equations. The benchmark pairs a structured task ontology with a rubric‑based evaluation framework, measuring LLM performance in clarification behavior, conversational grounding, and final‑specification fidelity, and reveals that even top models only resolve about 52.7% of disambiguation cases in fluid mechanics while often making ungrounded assumptions.

By Nithin Somasekharan, Youssef Hassan, Shiyao Lin, Gihan Panapitiya, Patrick Emami, Anurag Acharya, Sameera Horawalavithana, Shaowu Pan
arXiv AI
Oct 15

Google Earth AI Geospatial Reasoning Agent: Capabilities and a Systematic Evaluation

arXiv:2610.15750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Google Earth AI is a family of geospatial AI models, together with an agent that orchestrates them. We present this agent, Google Earth AI's Geospatial...

By Noam Slonim, Aviv Slobodkin, Gil Fidel, Gal Moshitch, Mimi Sun, Lily Mihalkova, Joydeep Paul, Per Bjornsson, Sydney Lin, Jamie McPike, Samapriya Roy, Utkarsh Patel, Gia Jung, Zachary Luna, Allison Berman, William Cai, Xiao Wu, Mohit Agarwal, Mandar Sharma, Aliza Hoffman, Mark Young, Rama Pasumarthi, Roy Lee, Ruth Alcantara, Luke Barrington, Aaron Bell, Reuven Sayag, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, Tyler McHenry, Ronald Ho, Christopher Haire, Oliver Guinan, Niv Efron, Tim Thelin, Gautam Prasad, Shravya Shetty
arXiv AI
Oct 12

GeoFitBench-LLM: A Benchmark for Assessing Large Language Models' Capabilities in Geospatial Data Requirements Elicitation for Geo-Analytic Tasks

GeoFitBench-LLM is a benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on their ability to elicit geospatial data requirements for geo‑analytic tasks. It focuses on two reasoning dimensions—spatio‑temporal relational and semantic grounding—and uses a provider‑independent schema to encode ground‑truth requirements. Experiments on seven models show that while many can identify necessary resources, accurately specifying fitness‑for‑use remains challenging, with GPT‑5.4 Thinking recovering all resources in 66.67% of cases.

By Amirhossein Vahdat, Thierry Badard, Luc Lamontagne
arXiv AI
Jun 12

TerraBench: Can Agents Reason Over Heterogeneous Earth-System Data?

arXiv:2606. 13148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Climate and environmental decision-making increasingly requires reasoning across heterogeneous inputs, including gridded physical data, satellite imagery, geospatial context, and simulator outputs.

By Dat Tien Nguyen, Thao Nguyen, Fadillah Adamsyah Maani, Huy M. Le, Muhammad Umer Sheikh, Numan Saeed, Muhammad Haris Khan, Salman Khan
arXiv AI
Jun 12

GeoNatureAgent Benchmark: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Environmental Geospatial Analysis Across Frontier and Open-Weight Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 12821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environmental scientists spend disproportionate effort on data wrangling rather than analysis, and AI agents that automate geospatial workflows remain unvalidated: no benchmark evaluates agents operating through structured tool calling against real APIs.

By Gabriel Diaz-Ireland, Diego Prieto-Herr\'aez, Mario Garc\'ia Peces, Javier Vel\'azquez, Devika Jain
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Planetary Prediction Engine: Autonomous Geospatial Prediction via Intelligent Data Selection and Foundation Model Embeddings

The Planetary Prediction Engine (PPE) is an autonomous AI system that transforms natural-language queries into end-to-end geospatial predictions. It automatically retrieves and fuses multimodal datasets from open-web and Earth observation sources, incorporates foundation model embeddings, and searches task‑specific model families with overfitting safeguards. Across multiple domains, PPE outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines, improving regression metrics for CDC health indicators, FEMA risk indices, and the Social Vulnerability Index, doubling accuracy for Nigerian food security indicators, and achieving higher recall in Ebola outbreak nowcasting.

By Evelyn Ma, Rama Kumar Pasumarthi, Kishwar Shafin, Mandar Sharma, Mimi Sun, Hamed Sadeghi, Dav M. Ebengo, Mbulayi Onesime, Rouslan Solomakhin, John Wamburu, William Ogallo, Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Sanxing Chen, Arbaaz Muslim, Yael Mayer, Ronald Ho, Roy Lee, Ruth Alcantara, Abdoulaye Diack, Monica Bharel, Lambert Rosique, Jeremy Amez-Droz, Christopher Haire, James Manyika, Yossi Matias, Niv Efron, Gautam Prasad, Shravya Shetty