arXiv:2605.19812cs.LGcs.AI2026-05

构建生态通量外推基准,评估模型在分布偏移下的泛化能力。

FLUXtrapolation: A benchmark on extrapolating ecosystem fluxes

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  • 设计时序、空间和温带三类外推场景,模拟真实生态数据分布偏移。
  • 基线模型在中位小时均方根误差下表现相似,但在尾部误差上差异显著。
  • 适合关注生态建模与机器学习跨领域应用的研究者使用。

我们提出FLUXtrapolation,一个用于评估生态系统通量在外推任务中应对渐进式分布偏移的基准。生态通量对理解碳、水和能量循环至关重要,但仅能在稀疏观测塔站直接测量。全球通量估计需基于观测站点数据,利用全球可获取协变量进行建模并预测未观测区域,即通量上推。该任务是极具挑战性的领域泛化问题,受气候、生态系统类型和环境条件变化导致的协变量分布偏移($P_X$)以及重要驱动因子在全局尺度缺失引发的条件分布偏移($P_{Y ext{|}X}$)双重影响。本工作对这两类偏移进行了量化分析。FLUXtrapolation基于通量上推的领域知识设计,包含时间、空间和温度相关的外推情景,并在保留域、时间聚合及尾部误差上评估模型性能。初步实验表明,基线模型在中位小时均方根误差(RMSE)上表现相近,但在所提尾部聚焦和多尺度评估下差异明显。因此,该基准为机器学习方法在分布偏移下的实际挑战提供了真实且相关的问题;同时,其进展将直接助力提升通量上推的科学目标。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We introduce FLUXtrapolation, a benchmark for extrapolating ecosystem fluxes under progressively harder distribution shifts. Ecosystem fluxes are central to understanding the carbon, water, and energy cycles, yet they can only be measured directly at sparsely located measurement towers. Producing global flux estimates therefore requires training models on observed sites using globally available covariates and predicting in unobserved regions, that is, upscaling. Flux upscaling is a challenging domain generalization problem that is affected by a shift in covariate distribution across climates, ecosystem types, and environmental conditions, as well as by conditional shift: important drivers remain unobserved at global scale. We provide a quantitative analysis of both these shifts in $P_X$ and $P_{Y\mid X}$. FLUXtrapolation is designed based on domain expertise on flux upscaling: it defines temporal, spatial, and temperature-based extrapolation scenarios and evaluates performance across held-out domains, temporal aggregations, and tail errors. In a pilot study, we find that baselines perform similarly under median hourly RMSE, but separate under the proposed tail-focused and multi-scale evaluation. FLUXtrapolation therefore poses a realistic and thus relevant challenge for machine learning methods under distribution shift; at the same time, progress on this benchmark would directly support the scientific goal of improving flux upscaling.

生态建模分布偏移通量预测

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