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MEOX model uses compact multimodal experts for Earth Observation tasks

Researchers have introduced MEOX, a compact multimodal model designed for Earth Observation tasks. This model utilizes a mixture-of-experts architecture with a relatively small parameter count, incorporating sensor-specific adapters and metadata tokens to handle diverse data inputs. Pretrained on a large dataset, MEOX demonstrates strong performance in frozen transfer evaluations across various benchmarks, outperforming existing models in tasks like segmentation and classification. AI

IMPACT This model's compact design and strong transfer learning capabilities could enable more efficient AI applications in Earth Observation.

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MEOX model uses compact multimodal experts for Earth Observation tasks

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohanad Albughdadi ·

    MEOX: Compact Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts for Earth Observation

    arXiv:2609.05351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Earth Observation representation learning accommodate heterogeneous sensors and missing observations, often through larger architectures. We present MEOX (Multimodal Earth Observation with eXperts), a multimodal m…