Global Attention with Linear Complexity for Exascale Generative Data Assimilation in Earth System Prediction

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Autori principali: Wang, Xiao, Zhang, Zezhong, Lyngaas, Isaac, Yoon, Hong-Jun, Choi, Jong-Youl, Liang, Siming, Wang, Janet, Chipilski, Hristo G., Aji, Ashwin M., Bao, Feng, van Leeuwen, Peter Jan, Lu, Dan, Zhang, Guannan
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author Wang, Xiao
Zhang, Zezhong
Lyngaas, Isaac
Yoon, Hong-Jun
Choi, Jong-Youl
Liang, Siming
Wang, Janet
Chipilski, Hristo G.
Aji, Ashwin M.
Bao, Feng
van Leeuwen, Peter Jan
Lu, Dan
Zhang, Guannan
author_facet Wang, Xiao
Zhang, Zezhong
Lyngaas, Isaac
Yoon, Hong-Jun
Choi, Jong-Youl
Liang, Siming
Wang, Janet
Chipilski, Hristo G.
Aji, Ashwin M.
Bao, Feng
van Leeuwen, Peter Jan
Lu, Dan
Zhang, Guannan
contents Accurate weather and climate prediction relies on data assimilation (DA), which estimates the Earth system state by integrating observations with models. While exascale computing has significantly advanced earth simulation, scalable and accurate inference of the Earth system state remains a fundamental bottleneck, limiting uncertainty quantification and prediction of extreme events. We introduce a unified one-stage generative DA framework that reformulates assimilation as Bayesian posterior sampling, replacing the conventional forecast-update cycle with compute-dense, GPU-efficient inference. At the core is STORM, a novel spatiotemporal transformer with a global attention linear-complexity scaling algorithm that breaks the quadratic attention barrier. On 32,768 GPUs of the Frontier supercomputer, our method achieves 63% strong scaling efficiency and 1.6 ExaFLOP sustained performance. We further scale to 20 billion spatiotemporal tokens, enabling km-scale global modeling over 177k temporal frames, regimes previously unreachable, establishing a new paradigm for Earth system prediction.
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spellingShingle Global Attention with Linear Complexity for Exascale Generative Data Assimilation in Earth System Prediction
Wang, Xiao
Zhang, Zezhong
Lyngaas, Isaac
Yoon, Hong-Jun
Choi, Jong-Youl
Liang, Siming
Wang, Janet
Chipilski, Hristo G.
Aji, Ashwin M.
Bao, Feng
van Leeuwen, Peter Jan
Lu, Dan
Zhang, Guannan
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Accurate weather and climate prediction relies on data assimilation (DA), which estimates the Earth system state by integrating observations with models. While exascale computing has significantly advanced earth simulation, scalable and accurate inference of the Earth system state remains a fundamental bottleneck, limiting uncertainty quantification and prediction of extreme events. We introduce a unified one-stage generative DA framework that reformulates assimilation as Bayesian posterior sampling, replacing the conventional forecast-update cycle with compute-dense, GPU-efficient inference. At the core is STORM, a novel spatiotemporal transformer with a global attention linear-complexity scaling algorithm that breaks the quadratic attention barrier. On 32,768 GPUs of the Frontier supercomputer, our method achieves 63% strong scaling efficiency and 1.6 ExaFLOP sustained performance. We further scale to 20 billion spatiotemporal tokens, enabling km-scale global modeling over 177k temporal frames, regimes previously unreachable, establishing a new paradigm for Earth system prediction.
title Global Attention with Linear Complexity for Exascale Generative Data Assimilation in Earth System Prediction
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16590