A standard U-Net with MAE pre-training followed by short CRPS fine-tuning via Monte Carlo Dropout matches or exceeds GenCast and IFS ENS probabilistic skill at 1.5° resolution while cutting training compute and inference latency by over 10×.
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HealDA supplies ML-based initial conditions for AI weather models that produce forecasts trailing ERA5-initialized runs by less than one day of effective lead time, with the skill gap arising mainly from initial error size.
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U-Cast: A Surprisingly Simple and Efficient Frontier Probabilistic AI Weather Forecaster
A standard U-Net with MAE pre-training followed by short CRPS fine-tuning via Monte Carlo Dropout matches or exceeds GenCast and IFS ENS probabilistic skill at 1.5° resolution while cutting training compute and inference latency by over 10×.
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HealDA: Highlighting the importance of initial errors in end-to-end AI weather forecasts
HealDA supplies ML-based initial conditions for AI weather models that produce forecasts trailing ERA5-initialized runs by less than one day of effective lead time, with the skill gap arising mainly from initial error size.