arXiv:2605. 24782v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) excel at predictive tasks on satellite imagery, their performance can arise from visual correlations rather than underlying structural invariants, making even perception-based out-of-distribution accuracy a poor proxy for scientific utility.
arXiv:2605. 00972v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Earth system science is producing increasingly large, high-dimensional datasets from both physics-based and AI-driven models.
arXiv:2606. 26535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current VLM evaluations often conflate language priors with genuine spatial reasoning.
Current VLM evaluations often conflate language priors with genuine spatial reasoning. To address this, we introduce CRISP, a novel structural-diagnostic evaluation paradigm that assesses visual spatial intelligence through consistency, the alignment between implicit perception and explicit reasoning.
arXiv:2602. 06205v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests that independently trained neural networks converge to increasingly similar latent spaces.
arXiv:2606. 00384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fitting quantitative models to data is a central step in scientific workflows, yet it remains one of the least automated.
arXiv:2608. 05981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-resolution climate data is crucial for meteorological predictions and for informing decision support across diverse domains.
arXiv:2606. 25128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Volume and quality of datasets are crucial for deep learning model training, yet they are often constrained by availability and data acquisition costs.
Volume and quality of datasets are crucial for deep learning model training, yet they are often constrained by availability and data acquisition costs. Synthetic data augmentation can extend existing datasets with realistic images, and the quality of these images is generally assessed through fidelity metrics such as FID, KID, IS, LPIPS and SSIM that measure structural or distributional similarity.
Previous work has evaluated physics reasoning in foundation models using synthetic or semi-synthetic scenes and visual question-answering tasks. However, these benchmarks emphasize high-level events and lack the visual fidelity required to assess true low-level Newtonian understanding.
arXiv:2606. 02172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning discriminative visual representations from distributed, heterogeneous data is a fundamental challenge in Federated Learning (FL).
arXiv:2606. 11190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal alignment (CA) and cross-modal prediction (CP) are the dominant paradigms for multimodal representation learning, yet there is no systematic understanding of when each succeeds, when each fails, and when cross-modal training helps at all -- a gap that leaves practitioners, especially in scientific domains like biomedicine or astrophysics, with heterogeneous instruments and multiple levels of organization and measurement, unable to diagnose why standard methods underperform the best single modality.
arXiv:2607. 24064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in visual understanding, driven by the growing availability of high-quality image-text pairs.