arXiv:2512.03081physics.ao-phcs.LG2025-12被引 1

用物理分布先验校准机器学习预测,提升长期气候模拟准确性。

Calibrating Geophysical Predictions under Constrained Probabilistic Distributions

  • 基于核化Stein差异与归一化,将物理分布先验融入模型校准
  • 在稀疏数据下仍能显著提升预测与长期吸引子的一致性
  • 适合气候、湍流等具有敏感初值特性的复杂系统建模

机器学习在研究复杂地球物理动力系统(如湍流和气候过程)中展现出巨大潜力。这些系统对初始条件高度敏感,表现为正的Lyapunov指数,导致短期预测中的微小扰动可能引发长期结果的巨大偏差。因此,有意义的推断不仅需要准确的短期预测,还需与由状态变量边缘分布捕获的长期吸引子保持一致。现有方法尝试通过引入时空依赖来解决此问题,但在数据极度稀疏时变得不切实际。本文表明,状态变量的边缘分布先验可为短期观测提供有价值的补充信息,由此提出一种分布感知的学习框架。我们引入基于归一化与核化Stein差异(KSD)的校准算法,在再生核希尔伯特空间中校准模型输出,增强其对已知物理分布的拟合度。该方法不仅能提高点预测精度,还能强制模型输出与根植于物理原理的非局部统计结构一致。通过合成实验——涵盖离线气候学二氧化碳通量和在线准地转流模拟——验证了该框架的鲁棒性与广泛适用性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Machine learning (ML) has shown significant promise in studying complex geophysical dynamical systems, including turbulence and climate processes. Such systems often display sensitive dependence on initial conditions, reflected in positive Lyapunov exponents, where even small perturbations in short-term forecasts can lead to large deviations in long-term outcomes. Thus, meaningful inference requires not only accurate short-term predictions, but also consistency with the system's long-term attractor that is captured by the marginal distribution of state variables. Existing approaches attempt to address this challenge by incorporating spatial and temporal dependence, but these strategies become impractical when data are extremely sparse. In this work, we show that prior knowledge of marginal distributions offers valuable complementary information to short-term observations, motivating a distribution-informed learning framework. We introduce a calibration algorithm based on normalization and the Kernelized Stein Discrepancy (KSD) to enhance ML predictions. The method here employs KSD within a reproducing kernel Hilbert space to calibrate model outputs, improving their fidelity to known physical distributions. This not only sharpens pointwise predictions but also enforces consistency with non-local statistical structures rooted in physical principles. Through synthetic experiments-spanning offline climatological CO2 fluxes and online quasi-geostrophic flow simulations-we demonstrate the robustness and broad utility of the proposed framework.

机器学习气候模拟分布校准物理约束

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