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Cascade model architecture reduces errors in long term neural predictions

CasEm: A Cascade Architecture for Long-Horizon Neural Emulation

Abstract: Autoregressive neural emulators can drift or diverge over long rollouts despite accurate short-term predictions. We introduce Cascaded Emulation (CasEm), a one-way rollout architecture that augments an existing full-state backbone with an independently evolving model of physically specified aggregates. Its forecasts guide corrections to full-state predictions, without feedback from the backbone to the aggregate model. Effective guidance requires aggregates that cover substantial backbone error, remain accurately predictable, and support useful full-state corrections. We derive a finite-horizon error bound that clarifies these three factors and use empirical diagnostics to guide subsystem selection. Across four ODE/PDE benchmarks, CasEm reduces long-horizon rollout errors across diverse backbones and suppresses the trend toward error divergence in both diffusion tasks using Fourier neural operator backbones. In global climate emulation, CasEm with a regional total-water subsystem reduces 10-year full-state time-mean error by 66.6% and 46.3% for frozen ACE and Spherical DYffusion backbones, respectively, while adding less than 3% to inference time.

Mon 28 SeptMachine Learning
The gist
Neural networks that predict future states over long periods can make bigger and bigger mistakes as they go. The authors introduce a new method called CasEm, which adds a second model focusing on key summary features to help correct these errors during long predictions. This second model runs separately and guides corrections without interfering with the main model’s short-term accuracy. Their approach cuts down mistakes in various physics simulations and climate models, making long-term forecasts more reliable.
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