Foundation Models for Astrobiology: Paper I -- Workshop and Overview
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| author | Felton, Ryan Scharf, Caleb Bartlett, Stuart Cabrol, Nathalie A. Da Poian, Victoria Gentry, Diana Gong, Jian Hoarfrost, Adrienne Maskey, Manil Nichols, Floyd Nixon, Conor A. Panambur, Tejas Pasterski, Joseph Petrov, Anton S. Prabhu, Anirudh Thomson, Brenda Valizadegan, Hamed Warren-Rhodes, Kimberley Wettergreen, David Wong, Michael L. Yanchilina, Anastasia |
| author_facet | Felton, Ryan Scharf, Caleb Bartlett, Stuart Cabrol, Nathalie A. Da Poian, Victoria Gentry, Diana Gong, Jian Hoarfrost, Adrienne Maskey, Manil Nichols, Floyd Nixon, Conor A. Panambur, Tejas Pasterski, Joseph Petrov, Anton S. Prabhu, Anirudh Thomson, Brenda Valizadegan, Hamed Warren-Rhodes, Kimberley Wettergreen, David Wong, Michael L. Yanchilina, Anastasia |
| contents | Advances in machine learning over the past decade have resulted in a proliferation of algorithmic applications for encoding, characterizing, and acting on complex data that may contain many high dimensional features. Recently, the emergence of deep-learning models trained across very large datasets has created a new paradigm for machine learning in the form of Foundation Models. Foundation Models are programs trained on very large and broad datasets with an extensive number of parameters. Once built, these powerful, and flexible, models can be utilized in less resource-intensive ways to build many different, downstream applications that can integrate previously disparate, multimodal data. The development of these applications can be done rapidly and with a much lower demand for machine learning expertise. And the necessary infrastructure and models themselves are already being established within agencies such as NASA and ESA. At NASA this work is across several divisions of the Science Mission Directorate including the NASA Goddard and INDUS Large Language Models and the Prithvi Geospatial Foundation Model. And ESA initiatives to bring Foundation Models to Earth observations has led to the development of TerraMind. A workshop was held by the NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute, in February 2025, to investigate the potential of Foundation Models for astrobiological research and to determine what steps would be needed to build and utilize such a model or models. This paper shares the findings and recommendations of that workshop, and describes clear near-term, and future opportunities in the development of a Foundation Model (or Models) for astrobiology applications. These applications would include a biosignature, or life characterization, task, a mission development and operations task, and a natural language task for integrating and supporting astrobiology research needs. |
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| spellingShingle | Foundation Models for Astrobiology: Paper I -- Workshop and Overview Felton, Ryan Scharf, Caleb Bartlett, Stuart Cabrol, Nathalie A. Da Poian, Victoria Gentry, Diana Gong, Jian Hoarfrost, Adrienne Maskey, Manil Nichols, Floyd Nixon, Conor A. Panambur, Tejas Pasterski, Joseph Petrov, Anton S. Prabhu, Anirudh Thomson, Brenda Valizadegan, Hamed Warren-Rhodes, Kimberley Wettergreen, David Wong, Michael L. Yanchilina, Anastasia Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Advances in machine learning over the past decade have resulted in a proliferation of algorithmic applications for encoding, characterizing, and acting on complex data that may contain many high dimensional features. Recently, the emergence of deep-learning models trained across very large datasets has created a new paradigm for machine learning in the form of Foundation Models. Foundation Models are programs trained on very large and broad datasets with an extensive number of parameters. Once built, these powerful, and flexible, models can be utilized in less resource-intensive ways to build many different, downstream applications that can integrate previously disparate, multimodal data. The development of these applications can be done rapidly and with a much lower demand for machine learning expertise. And the necessary infrastructure and models themselves are already being established within agencies such as NASA and ESA. At NASA this work is across several divisions of the Science Mission Directorate including the NASA Goddard and INDUS Large Language Models and the Prithvi Geospatial Foundation Model. And ESA initiatives to bring Foundation Models to Earth observations has led to the development of TerraMind. A workshop was held by the NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute, in February 2025, to investigate the potential of Foundation Models for astrobiological research and to determine what steps would be needed to build and utilize such a model or models. This paper shares the findings and recommendations of that workshop, and describes clear near-term, and future opportunities in the development of a Foundation Model (or Models) for astrobiology applications. These applications would include a biosignature, or life characterization, task, a mission development and operations task, and a natural language task for integrating and supporting astrobiology research needs. |
| title | Foundation Models for Astrobiology: Paper I -- Workshop and Overview |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08636 |