Memory-augmented Mamba branch improves GraphCast forecast error by 14 percent

Training a temporal memory correction on ERA5 data reduces RMSE across all variables at day 10 by 7 to 14 percent.

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Ilya Vilkoviskiy · Liang-Hong Mo · Suozhi Huang · Dmitry A. Abanin

Princeton University · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) · Google Research

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The authors augment a frozen GraphCast backbone with a trainable Mamba correction branch that retains temporal memory across forecast steps.

The authors introduce GraphCast–Mamba, which adds a correction branch to a frozen pretrained 1° GraphCast backbone.

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