AI RESEARCH
SynopticBench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Generating Weather Forecast Discussions of the Future
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2604.16451v1 Announce Type: cross Recent advances in visual-language models (VLMs) have led to significant improvements in a plethora of complex multimodal tasks like image captioning, report generation, and visual perception. However, generating text from meteorological data is highly challenging because the atmosphere is a chaotic system that is rapidly changing at various spatial and temporal scales. Given the complexity of atmospheric phenomena, it is critical to verifiably quantify the effectiveness of existing VLMs on weather forecasting data.