arXiv Machine Learning By Nathaniel Chen, Kouroche Bouchiat, Peter Steiner, Azarakhsh Jalalvand, SangKyeun Kim, Egemen Kolemen

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

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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