Simple and Robust Forecasting of Spatiotemporally Correlated Small Earth Data with A Tabular Foundation Model

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Autori principali: Yang, Yuting, Mei, Gang, Ma, Zhengjing, Xu, Nengxiong, Peng, Jianbing
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author Yang, Yuting
Mei, Gang
Ma, Zhengjing
Xu, Nengxiong
Peng, Jianbing
author_facet Yang, Yuting
Mei, Gang
Ma, Zhengjing
Xu, Nengxiong
Peng, Jianbing
contents Small Earth data are geoscience observations with limited short-term monitoring variability, providing sparse but meaningful measurements, typically exhibiting spatiotemporal correlations. Spatiotemporal forecasting on such data is crucial for understanding geoscientific processes despite their small scale. However, conventional deep learning models for spatiotemporal forecasting requires task-specific training for different scenarios. Foundation models do not need task-specific training, but they often exhibit forecasting bias toward the global mean of the pretraining distribution. Here we propose a simple and robust approach for spatiotemporally correlated small Earth data forecasting. The essential idea is to characterize and quantify spatiotemporal patterns of small Earth data and then utilize tabular foundation models for accurate forecasting across different scenarios. Comparative results across three typical scenarios demonstrate that our forecasting approach achieves superior accuracy compared to the graph deep learning model (T-GCN) and tabular foundation model (TabPFN) in the majority of instances, exhibiting stronger robustness.
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spellingShingle Simple and Robust Forecasting of Spatiotemporally Correlated Small Earth Data with A Tabular Foundation Model
Yang, Yuting
Mei, Gang
Ma, Zhengjing
Xu, Nengxiong
Peng, Jianbing
Machine Learning
Small Earth data are geoscience observations with limited short-term monitoring variability, providing sparse but meaningful measurements, typically exhibiting spatiotemporal correlations. Spatiotemporal forecasting on such data is crucial for understanding geoscientific processes despite their small scale. However, conventional deep learning models for spatiotemporal forecasting requires task-specific training for different scenarios. Foundation models do not need task-specific training, but they often exhibit forecasting bias toward the global mean of the pretraining distribution. Here we propose a simple and robust approach for spatiotemporally correlated small Earth data forecasting. The essential idea is to characterize and quantify spatiotemporal patterns of small Earth data and then utilize tabular foundation models for accurate forecasting across different scenarios. Comparative results across three typical scenarios demonstrate that our forecasting approach achieves superior accuracy compared to the graph deep learning model (T-GCN) and tabular foundation model (TabPFN) in the majority of instances, exhibiting stronger robustness.
title Simple and Robust Forecasting of Spatiotemporally Correlated Small Earth Data with A Tabular Foundation Model
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08920