arXiv:2509.02783cs.LGcs.AI2025-09中稿 · NeurIPS被引 1

用多模态大模型重建地球地下结构,支持任意新增观测类型。

The Transparent Earth: A Multimodal Foundation Model for the Earth's Subsurface

  • 基于Transformer融合不同分辨率和类型的地质观测数据
  • 预测地应力角度误差降低三倍以上,支持零输入或任意组合输入
  • 可扩展至任意新模态,适合地质建模与地球系统研究者

我们提出Transparent Earth,一种基于Transformer的架构,用于从异构数据中重构地下属性,这些数据在稀疏性、分辨率和模态上差异显著。每种模态代表一种观测类型(如地应力角度、地幔温度、板块类型)。模型结合观测的位置编码与模态编码,后者由文本嵌入模型对模态描述生成。该设计使模型可扩展至任意数量的模态,新增模态无需重新设计。当前包含八种模态,涵盖方向角、类别型与连续型属性(如温度、厚度)。支持上下文学习,可在无输入或任意子集模态输入下生成预测。在验证数据上,应力角度预测误差降低超过三倍。所提架构具备可扩展性,参数增加时性能持续提升。这些进展使Transparent Earth成为地球地下首个基础模型,最终目标是实现全球任意位置地下属性的预测。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We present the Transparent Earth, a transformer-based architecture for reconstructing subsurface properties from heterogeneous datasets that vary in sparsity, resolution, and modality, where each modality represents a distinct type of observation (e.g., stress angle, mantle temperature, tectonic plate type). The model incorporates positional encodings of observations together with modality encodings, derived from a text embedding model applied to a description of each modality. This design enables the model to scale to an arbitrary number of modalities, making it straightforward to add new ones not considered in the initial design. We currently include eight modalities spanning directional angles, categorical classes, and continuous properties such as temperature and thickness. These capabilities support in-context learning, enabling the model to generate predictions either with no inputs or with an arbitrary number of additional observations from any subset of modalities. On validation data, this reduces errors in predicting stress angle by more than a factor of three. The proposed architecture is scalable and demonstrates improved performance with increased parameters. Together, these advances make the Transparent Earth an initial foundation model for the Earth's subsurface that ultimately aims to predict any subsurface property anywhere on Earth.

地球科学多模态基础模型地下建模

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