Solaris: A Foundation Model of the Sun

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Hauptverfasser: Majid, Harris Abdul, Sittoni, Pietro, Tudisco, Francesco
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author Majid, Harris Abdul
Sittoni, Pietro
Tudisco, Francesco
author_facet Majid, Harris Abdul
Sittoni, Pietro
Tudisco, Francesco
contents Foundation models have demonstrated remarkable success across various scientific domains, motivating our exploration of their potential in solar physics. In this paper, we present Solaris, the first foundation model for forecasting the Sun's atmosphere. We leverage 13 years of full-disk, multi-wavelength solar imagery from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, spanning a complete solar cycle, to pre-train Solaris for 12-hour interval forecasting. Solaris is built on a large-scale 3D Swin Transformer architecture with 109 million parameters. We demonstrate Solaris' ability to generalize by fine-tuning on a low-data regime using a single wavelength (1700 Å), that was not included in pre-training, outperforming models trained from scratch on this specific wavelength. Our results indicate that Solaris can effectively capture the complex dynamics of the solar atmosphere and transform solar forecasting.
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spellingShingle Solaris: A Foundation Model of the Sun
Majid, Harris Abdul
Sittoni, Pietro
Tudisco, Francesco
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Machine Learning
Space Physics
Foundation models have demonstrated remarkable success across various scientific domains, motivating our exploration of their potential in solar physics. In this paper, we present Solaris, the first foundation model for forecasting the Sun's atmosphere. We leverage 13 years of full-disk, multi-wavelength solar imagery from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, spanning a complete solar cycle, to pre-train Solaris for 12-hour interval forecasting. Solaris is built on a large-scale 3D Swin Transformer architecture with 109 million parameters. We demonstrate Solaris' ability to generalize by fine-tuning on a low-data regime using a single wavelength (1700 Å), that was not included in pre-training, outperforming models trained from scratch on this specific wavelength. Our results indicate that Solaris can effectively capture the complex dynamics of the solar atmosphere and transform solar forecasting.
title Solaris: A Foundation Model of the Sun
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Machine Learning
Space Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16339