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Rare 30-foot 'Doomsday fish' sighting by US tourists sparks ancient fears of imminent disaster

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Distillation and Interpretability of Ensemble Forecasts of ENSO Phase using Entropic Learning

Groom, Michael, Bassetti, Davide, Horenko, Illia, O'Kane, Terence J.

arXiv.org Machine Learning

This paper introduces a distillation framework for an ensemble of entropy-optimal Sparse Probabilistic Approximation (eSPA) models, trained exclusively on satellite-era observational and reanalysis data to predict ENSO phase up to 24 months in advance. While eSPA ensembles yield state-of-the-art forecast skill, they are harder to interpret than individual eSPA models. We show how to compress the ensemble into a compact set of "distilled" models by aggregating the structure of only those ensemble members that make correct predictions. This process yields a single, diagnostically tractable model for each forecast lead time that preserves forecast performance while also enabling diagnostics that are impractical to implement on the full ensemble. An analysis of the regime persistence of the distilled model "superclusters", as well as cross-lead clustering consistency, shows that the discretised system accurately captures the spatiotemporal dynamics of ENSO. By considering the effective dimension of the feature importance vectors, the complexity of the input space required for correct ENSO phase prediction is shown to peak when forecasts must cross the boreal spring predictability barrier. Spatial importance maps derived from the feature importance vectors are introduced to identify where predictive information resides in each field and are shown to include known physical precursors at certain lead times. Case studies of key events are also presented, showing how fields reconstructed from distilled model centroids trace the evolution from extratropical and inter-basin precursors to the mature ENSO state. Overall, the distillation framework enables a rigorous investigation of long-range ENSO predictability that complements real-time data-driven operational forecasts.




World's smallest possum may be hiding in South Australia

Popular Science

Environment Animals Wildlife World's smallest possum may be hiding in South Australia The tiny mammal weighs less than one pound. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Weighing less than one pound, the little pygmy possum () is one of the smallest mammals in Australia. These miniscule mammals feed on nectar, pollen, and insects, and differ from opossums . Opossums live in the United States and parts of Canada and have a bare tail instead of a furry tail.





Chefs'RandomTables: Non-TrigonometricRandom Features

Neural Information Processing Systems

We introduce chefs' random tables(CRTs), a new class of non-trigonometric random features (RFs) toapproximate Gaussian andsoftmax-kernels.