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arxiv: 2601.03633 · v2 · submitted 2026-01-07 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

MFC-RFNet: A Multi-scale Guided Rectified Flow Network for Radar Sequence Prediction

Wenjie Luo , Chuanhu Deng , Chaorong Li , Rongyao Deng , Qiang Yang This is my paper

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keywords precipitation nowcastingradar echo predictionrectified flowmulti-scale fusiongenerative modelspatiotemporal predictionradar sequencenowcasting
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MFC-RFNet combines rectified flow training with multi-scale guided feature communication to enhance radar sequence prediction for precipitation nowcasting.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to improve accurate high-resolution precipitation nowcasting from radar echo sequences, a task important for disaster mitigation and economic planning. It tackles challenges like modeling complex multi-scale evolution, correcting inter-frame feature misalignment, and capturing long-range spatiotemporal context by proposing MFC-RFNet, a generative framework. The approach integrates multi-scale communication via the Feature Communication Module and Wavelet-Guided Skip Connection, spatial alignment through Condition-Guided Spatial Transform Fusion, and adopts rectified flow training for near-linear trajectories that support few-step sampling, while adding lightweight Vision-RWKV blocks for efficient long-range dependencies. Evaluations on four public datasets show consistent gains over baselines, with clearer echo morphology at higher rain rates and sustained skill at longer lead times.

Core claim

The central claim is that MFC-RFNet integrates multi-scale communication with guided feature fusion and adopts rectified flow training to learn near-linear probability-flow trajectories, enabling few-step sampling with stable fidelity, while specific modules like Wavelet-Guided Skip Connection preserve high-frequency details, Feature Communication Module promotes cross-scale interaction, Condition-Guided Spatial Transform Fusion corrects displacement, and Vision-RWKV blocks capture long-range context at low resolution, yielding clearer predictions on SEVIR, MeteoNet, Shanghai, and CIKM datasets.

What carries the argument

The synergy of rectified flow training with scale-aware communication via FCM, frequency-aware fusion via WGSC, spatial alignment via CGSTF, and Vision-RWKV blocks for spatiotemporal dependencies.

If this is right

  • Clearer echo morphology at higher rain-rate thresholds
  • Sustained prediction skill at longer lead times
  • Few-step sampling with stable fidelity
  • Better handling of complex multi-scale evolution and inter-frame displacements
  • Consistent gains across diverse public radar datasets

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar architectures could extend to other moving-pattern sequence tasks such as fluid flow or satellite cloud tracking
  • The few-step sampling property may support real-time operational nowcasting systems with limited compute
  • Placing RWKV blocks only at low resolutions suggests a path to scale the model to higher resolutions without linear compute growth

Load-bearing premise

The proposed synergy of RF training with scale-aware communication, spatial alignment, and frequency-aware fusion will produce robust gains without the specific module designs being overfit to the four chosen datasets.

What would settle it

Showing that on the SEVIR dataset the model produces no clearer echo morphology at higher rain-rate thresholds than strong baselines, or loses skill faster at longer lead times, would falsify the claim of consistent improvements.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2601.03633 by Chaorong Li, Chuanhu Deng, Qiang Yang, Rongyao Deng, Wenjie Luo.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Pareto plot of parameters, compute, and per￾formance on SEVIR. Vertical axis: CSI-M (%); horizontal axis: number of parameters (Million). The color bar encodes computational cost in GFLOPs—darker indicates higher cost. Deep learning-based radar sequence models have ad￾vanced nowcasting substantially. ConvLSTM [3] first demon￾strated clear gains over classical extrapolation on real radar data, and TrajGRU [… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: MFC-RFNet overall architecture. Top: the conditional encoder extracts multi-scale features; FCM performs cross-scale communication; CGSTF aligns shallow features; WGSC modulates skip fusion. Bottom: the RF generator updates 𝑧𝑡 with few ODE steps (𝑧𝑡+Δ𝑡 = 𝑧𝑡 + 𝑣𝜃 Δ𝑡) to produce 𝐾 future frames, with VRWKV placed in deep layers to supply long-range context. In parallel, generative paradigms—from GANs to diff… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Feature Communication Module (FCM). Left: Multi-directional fusion—top–down (TD), bottom–up (BU), and lateral branches are built at every level; an SE head conditioned on 𝐅 lat 𝑖 produces weights 𝜶𝑖 that mix the three streams into 𝐅̂ 𝑖 . Middle: Pixel-wise cross-scale communication—all 𝐅̂ 𝑖 are first projected with 1×1 convolutions and bilinearly aligned to a reference resolution (𝐻⋆×𝑊 ⋆), concatenated, an… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Condition-Guided Spatial Transform Fusion (CGSTF). Conditioning features produce an offset field 𝐎 (bounded by tanh) to perturb the base grid (Grid𝑥 , Grid𝑦 ) and obtain Gridoffset. GridSample warps the main features to 𝐅warp, which is fused with the conditional features to yield 𝐅out. 3.3. Condition-Guided Spatial Transform Fusion (CGSTF) Background & design rationale. The evolution of pre￾cipitation syst… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The Wavelet-Guided Skip Connection (WGSC) architecture. Conditional features are processed by the Wavelet Processor (top inset) via 2D DWT to yield a frequency￾aware guidance map (𝐀wav). Concurrently (main path, bottom), spatial (SA) and channel (CA) attention masks are derived from concatenated encoder and decoder features. These components, along with 𝐀wav, inform the synthesis of three distinct gates. E… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: VRWKV placement strategies at deep stages. Comparison of integration strategies for VRWKV blocks at the encoder tail, bottleneck, and first decoder layer. (a) Baseline architecture at these locations, without VRWKV. (b) Serial insertion with 𝑁 blocks per stage; specifically, the 𝑁 = 1 case corresponds to the KAN-VRWKV Block configuration used in MFC-RFNet. (c) Parallel integration via residual mixing (Add&… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: CSI and HSS metrics at different prediction time steps for various methods on the SEVIR dataset. [52]); efficient video predictors (SimVP [53], FourCast￾Net [18]); Transformer families (EarthFormer [17], Earth￾Farseer [54]); a physics-informed design (PhyDNet [55]); a nowcasting-specific model (AlphaPre [56]); and recent generative approaches (NowcastNet [14], DiffCast [57]). Metrics include CSI at multipl… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative comparisons on the SEVIR dataset. better preserved and spurious weak echoes are reduced. On Shanghai and MeteoNet, narrow bands remain more continuous; on CIKM, small cells show fewer fragmented artifacts. These observations are consistent with the intended roles of FCM, CGSTF, and WGSC in coordinating scales, aligning shallow features, and modulating skip fusion. From a cost perspective, the m… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Qualitative comparisons on the Shanghai dataset. performance gain ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative comparisons on the MeteoNet dataset. removing any component degrades performance, confirm￾ing their complementary roles. Disabling multi-directional fusion causes the most significant drop in high-threshold CSI (a decrease of about 8% for CSI-32), highlighting the critical importance of bidirectional information flow for coordinating global context and local details. Removing the cross-scale a… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Qualitative comparisons on the CIKM dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_11.png] view at source ↗
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Accurate and high-resolution precipitation nowcasting from radar echo sequences is crucial for disaster mitigation and economic planning, yet it remains a significant challenge. Key difficulties include modeling complex multi-scale evolution, correcting inter-frame feature misalignment caused by displacement, and efficiently capturing long-range spatiotemporal context without sacrificing spatial fidelity. To address these issues, we present the Multi-scale Feature Communication Rectified Flow (RF) Network (MFC-RFNet), a generative framework that integrates multi-scale communication with guided feature fusion. To enhance multi-scale fusion while retaining fine detail, a Wavelet-Guided Skip Connection (WGSC) preserves high-frequency components, and a Feature Communication Module (FCM) promotes bidirectional cross-scale interaction. To correct inter-frame displacement, a Condition-Guided Spatial Transform Fusion (CGSTF) learns spatial transforms from conditioning echoes to align shallow features. The backbone adopts rectified flow training to learn near-linear probability-flow trajectories, enabling few-step sampling with stable fidelity. Additionally, lightweight Vision-RWKV (RWKV) blocks are placed at the encoder tail, the bottleneck, and the first decoder layer to capture long-range spatiotemporal dependencies at low spatial resolutions with moderate compute. Evaluations on four public datasets (SEVIR, MeteoNet, Shanghai, and CIKM) demonstrate consistent improvements over strong baselines, yielding clearer echo morphology at higher rain-rate thresholds and sustained skill at longer lead times. These results suggest that the proposed synergy of RF training with scale-aware communication, spatial alignment, and frequency-aware fusion presents an effective and robust approach for radar-based nowcasting.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes MFC-RFNet, a generative model for radar echo sequence prediction in precipitation nowcasting. It integrates a rectified-flow backbone with a Wavelet-Guided Skip Connection (WGSC) for high-frequency preservation, a Feature Communication Module (FCM) for bidirectional multi-scale interaction, a Condition-Guided Spatial Transform Fusion (CGSTF) for inter-frame alignment, and lightweight Vision-RWKV blocks for long-range spatiotemporal modeling. The central claim is that this specific combination produces consistent quantitative and qualitative improvements over strong baselines on four public datasets (SEVIR, MeteoNet, Shanghai, CIKM), with clearer morphology at high rain-rate thresholds and better skill at longer lead times.

Significance. If the performance gains are shown to arise specifically from the claimed module synergies rather than from the RF backbone or RWKV alone, the work would offer a practical advance in nowcasting by combining probability-flow training with scale-aware fusion and alignment mechanisms. The design choices for efficient long-range modeling at low resolution are potentially reusable in other spatiotemporal forecasting tasks.

major comments (2)
  1. [Experimental section] Experimental section: the manuscript reports aggregate metric improvements versus baselines but provides no ablation tables that remove WGSC, FCM, CGSTF, or RWKV one at a time (or in combination) while keeping the RF training and encoder-decoder fixed. Without these controlled comparisons across all four datasets, lead times, and rain-rate thresholds, the attribution of gains to the proposed synergy remains unsupported.
  2. [Results and discussion] Results and discussion: no error bars, statistical significance tests, or per-component contribution tables are described for the claimed improvements at higher rain-rate thresholds and longer lead times. This makes it impossible to assess whether the reported gains are robust or dataset-specific.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the list of datasets and claimed benefits would be clearer if accompanied by the primary evaluation metrics (e.g., CSI, MSE, or SSIM) used to quantify 'consistent improvements'.
  2. Notation: ensure all module acronyms (WGSC, FCM, CGSTF, RWKV) are expanded on first use in the main text and that the precise placement of RWKV blocks is illustrated in a diagram.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our paper MFC-RFNet. The major comments point to the need for more rigorous experimental validation through ablations and statistical analyses. We address these points below and will make the necessary revisions to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Experimental section] Experimental section: the manuscript reports aggregate metric improvements versus baselines but provides no ablation tables that remove WGSC, FCM, CGSTF, or RWKV one at a time (or in combination) while keeping the RF training and encoder-decoder fixed. Without these controlled comparisons across all four datasets, lead times, and rain-rate thresholds, the attribution of gains to the proposed synergy remains unsupported.

    Authors: We acknowledge the lack of ablation studies in the current version. To address this, we will add comprehensive ablation experiments in the revised manuscript. These will include removing each module (WGSC, FCM, CGSTF, RWKV) individually and in combinations, while keeping the rectified flow training and overall architecture fixed. Results will be reported across all four datasets, multiple lead times, and rain-rate thresholds to clearly attribute the performance gains to the proposed synergies. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results and discussion] Results and discussion: no error bars, statistical significance tests, or per-component contribution tables are described for the claimed improvements at higher rain-rate thresholds and longer lead times. This makes it impossible to assess whether the reported gains are robust or dataset-specific.

    Authors: We agree that including error bars, statistical tests, and per-component analyses would enhance the credibility of our results. In the revision, we plan to compute and report error bars (e.g., standard deviations over multiple runs or cross-validation folds), conduct statistical significance tests for the improvements at high rain-rate thresholds and longer lead times, and provide per-component contribution tables. This will help demonstrate the robustness and dataset-specific nature of the gains. revision: yes

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The paper introduces MFC-RFNet as a new architecture integrating rectified-flow training with WGSC, FCM, CGSTF, and RWKV modules, then reports empirical gains on four public datasets. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations appear in the provided text that would reduce any claimed prediction or result to an input by construction. The central claims rest on external dataset evaluations rather than self-referential definitions or imported uniqueness theorems, making the derivation self-contained.

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