EVENTS

Despite the huge success of foundation models across fields, they still suffer from hallucinations and can produce physically inconsistent outputs. To leverage foundation models for climate science, it is critical to integrate first principles and physical laws to the learning and reasoning of these models.  In this talk, I will discuss our on-going effort to ground foundation models, including diffusion models and large language models for climate science. In particular, I will discuss dynamics-informed diffusion models for emulating complex fluids and an adaptive framework for LLM agents to use scientific tools. I will demonstrate the use cases of our methods on building an autonomous LLM agent as a climate co-scientist.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify the limitations of current foundation models in climate science.
• Understand how integrating first principles and physical laws can ground diffusion models and LLMs for reliable scientific use.
• Recognize emerging applications of autonomous LLM agents as climate co-scientists for simulation, reasoning, and tool use.

Institutions

• AI for Good