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NASA and IBM built an AI to predict solar flares before they hit Earth

New Scientist

An artificial intelligence model trained on NASA satellite imagery can forecast what the sun will look like hours into the future โ€“ even predicting the appearance of solar flares that may warn of dangerous space weather for Earth. "I love to think of this model as an AI telescope where you can look at the sun and you can understand the moods," says Juan Bernabรฉ-Moreno at IBM Research Europe. The sun's moods matter because outbursts of solar activity can bombard Earth with high-energy particles, X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation. These can disrupt GPS and communications satellites, and potentially harm astronauts and even people on commercial airlines. Solar flares can be followed by coronal mass ejections, which may disrupt Earth's own magnetic field and create geomagnetic storms capable of knocking out power grids.





Parametric model reduction of mean-field and stochastic systems via higher-order action matching

Neural Information Processing Systems

Building on the Benamou-Brenier formula from optimal transport and action matching, we use a variational problem to infer parameter-and time-dependent gradient fields that represent approximations of the population dynamics.