FREE: The Foundational Semantic Recognition for Modeling Environmental Ecosystems

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Main Authors: Luo, Shiyuan, Ni, Juntong, Chen, Shengyu, Yu, Runlong, Xie, Yiqun, Liu, Licheng, Jin, Zhenong, Yao, Huaxiu, Jia, Xiaowei
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Published: 2023
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author Luo, Shiyuan
Ni, Juntong
Chen, Shengyu
Yu, Runlong
Xie, Yiqun
Liu, Licheng
Jin, Zhenong
Yao, Huaxiu
Jia, Xiaowei
author_facet Luo, Shiyuan
Ni, Juntong
Chen, Shengyu
Yu, Runlong
Xie, Yiqun
Liu, Licheng
Jin, Zhenong
Yao, Huaxiu
Jia, Xiaowei
contents Modeling environmental ecosystems is critical for the sustainability of our planet, but is extremely challenging due to the complex underlying processes driven by interactions amongst a large number of physical variables. As many variables are difficult to measure at large scales, existing works often utilize a combination of observable features and locally available measurements or modeled values as input to build models for a specific study region and time period. This raises a fundamental question in advancing the modeling of environmental ecosystems: how to build a general framework for modeling the complex relationships among diverse environmental variables over space and time? In this paper, we introduce a framework, FREE, that enables the use of varying features and available information to train a universal model. The core idea is to map available environmental data into a text space and then convert the traditional predictive modeling task in environmental science to a semantic recognition problem. Our evaluation on two societally important real-world applications, stream water temperature prediction and crop yield prediction, demonstrates the superiority of FREE over multiple baselines, even in data-sparse scenarios.
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spellingShingle FREE: The Foundational Semantic Recognition for Modeling Environmental Ecosystems
Luo, Shiyuan
Ni, Juntong
Chen, Shengyu
Yu, Runlong
Xie, Yiqun
Liu, Licheng
Jin, Zhenong
Yao, Huaxiu
Jia, Xiaowei
Machine Learning
Populations and Evolution
Modeling environmental ecosystems is critical for the sustainability of our planet, but is extremely challenging due to the complex underlying processes driven by interactions amongst a large number of physical variables. As many variables are difficult to measure at large scales, existing works often utilize a combination of observable features and locally available measurements or modeled values as input to build models for a specific study region and time period. This raises a fundamental question in advancing the modeling of environmental ecosystems: how to build a general framework for modeling the complex relationships among diverse environmental variables over space and time? In this paper, we introduce a framework, FREE, that enables the use of varying features and available information to train a universal model. The core idea is to map available environmental data into a text space and then convert the traditional predictive modeling task in environmental science to a semantic recognition problem. Our evaluation on two societally important real-world applications, stream water temperature prediction and crop yield prediction, demonstrates the superiority of FREE over multiple baselines, even in data-sparse scenarios.
title FREE: The Foundational Semantic Recognition for Modeling Environmental Ecosystems
topic Machine Learning
Populations and Evolution
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10255