RoMA: Scaling up Mamba-based Foundation Models for Remote Sensing

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Main Authors: Wang, Fengxiang, Wang, Yulin, Chen, Mingshuo, Zhao, Haiyan, Sun, Yangang, Wang, Shuo, Wang, Hongzhen, Wang, Di, Lan, Long, Yang, Wenjing, Zhang, Jing
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author Wang, Fengxiang
Wang, Yulin
Chen, Mingshuo
Zhao, Haiyan
Sun, Yangang
Wang, Shuo
Wang, Hongzhen
Wang, Di
Lan, Long
Yang, Wenjing
Zhang, Jing
author_facet Wang, Fengxiang
Wang, Yulin
Chen, Mingshuo
Zhao, Haiyan
Sun, Yangang
Wang, Shuo
Wang, Hongzhen
Wang, Di
Lan, Long
Yang, Wenjing
Zhang, Jing
contents Recent advances in self-supervised learning for Vision Transformers (ViTs) have fueled breakthroughs in remote sensing (RS) foundation models. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention poses a significant barrier to scalability, particularly for large models and high-resolution images. While the linear-complexity Mamba architecture offers a promising alternative, existing RS applications of Mamba remain limited to supervised tasks on small, domain-specific datasets. To address these challenges, we propose RoMA, a framework that enables scalable self-supervised pretraining of Mamba-based RS foundation models using large-scale, diverse, unlabeled data. RoMA enhances scalability for high-resolution images through a tailored auto-regressive learning strategy, incorporating two key innovations: 1) a rotation-aware pretraining mechanism combining adaptive cropping with angular embeddings to handle sparsely distributed objects with arbitrary orientations, and 2) multi-scale token prediction objectives that address the extreme variations in object scales inherent to RS imagery. Systematic empirical studies validate that Mamba adheres to RS data and parameter scaling laws, with performance scaling reliably as model and data size increase. Furthermore, experiments across scene classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation tasks demonstrate that RoMA-pretrained Mamba models consistently outperform ViT-based counterparts in both accuracy and computational efficiency. The source code and pretrained models will be released at https://github.com/MiliLab/RoMA.
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spellingShingle RoMA: Scaling up Mamba-based Foundation Models for Remote Sensing
Wang, Fengxiang
Wang, Yulin
Chen, Mingshuo
Zhao, Haiyan
Sun, Yangang
Wang, Shuo
Wang, Hongzhen
Wang, Di
Lan, Long
Yang, Wenjing
Zhang, Jing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Recent advances in self-supervised learning for Vision Transformers (ViTs) have fueled breakthroughs in remote sensing (RS) foundation models. However, the quadratic complexity of self-attention poses a significant barrier to scalability, particularly for large models and high-resolution images. While the linear-complexity Mamba architecture offers a promising alternative, existing RS applications of Mamba remain limited to supervised tasks on small, domain-specific datasets. To address these challenges, we propose RoMA, a framework that enables scalable self-supervised pretraining of Mamba-based RS foundation models using large-scale, diverse, unlabeled data. RoMA enhances scalability for high-resolution images through a tailored auto-regressive learning strategy, incorporating two key innovations: 1) a rotation-aware pretraining mechanism combining adaptive cropping with angular embeddings to handle sparsely distributed objects with arbitrary orientations, and 2) multi-scale token prediction objectives that address the extreme variations in object scales inherent to RS imagery. Systematic empirical studies validate that Mamba adheres to RS data and parameter scaling laws, with performance scaling reliably as model and data size increase. Furthermore, experiments across scene classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation tasks demonstrate that RoMA-pretrained Mamba models consistently outperform ViT-based counterparts in both accuracy and computational efficiency. The source code and pretrained models will be released at https://github.com/MiliLab/RoMA.
title RoMA: Scaling up Mamba-based Foundation Models for Remote Sensing
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10392