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Differentiable modelling to unify machine learning and physical models for geosciences

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · CAS Tier 1 · Top (2025)

Paper authors:Chaopeng Shen · Alison P. Appling · Pierre Gentine · Toshiyuki Bandai · Hoshin Gupta · Alexandre Tartakovsky · Marco Baity-Jesi · Fabrizio Fenicia · Daniel Kifer · Li Li · Xiaofeng Liu · Wei Ren · Yi Zheng · Ciaran J. Harman · Martyn Clark · Matthew Farthing · Dapeng Feng · Praveen Kumar · Doaa Aboelyazeed · Farshid Rahmani · Yalan Song · Hylke E. Beck · Tadd Bindas · Dipankar Dwivedi · Kuai Fang · Marvin Höge · Chris Rackauckas · Binayak Mohanty · Tirthankar Roy · Chonggang Xu · Kathryn Lawson

DOI: 10.1038/s43017-023-00450-9

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AI summaryReviews how differentiable computation can jointly train physical components and neural networks to support process understanding, parameter estimation and geoscientific prediction.

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