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New EarthShift benchmark reveals GFMs struggle with real-world distribution shifts

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A new benchmark called EarthShift has been introduced to evaluate the robustness of geospatial foundation models (GFMs) against real-world distribution shifts. Experiments using EarthShift on eight GFMs and eleven tasks revealed that these models consistently underperform by 15-20% when encountering out-of-distribution scenarios, performing similarly to generic vision models. The researchers highlight the need for future research to focus on improving distributional robustness, not just performance, and have released the code and datasets for EarthShift to facilitate this. AI

IMPACT Highlights a critical gap in current geospatial AI models, emphasizing the need for improved robustness in real-world applications.

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New EarthShift benchmark reveals GFMs struggle with real-world distribution shifts

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Kelsey Doerksen, Hannah Kerner ·

    EarthShift: a benchmark for measuring robustness to real-world distribution shifts in Earth observation

    arXiv:2605.29330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current Earth observation benchmarks focus on measuring performance on diverse tasks and applications, typically measuring generalization in-distribution. But when models are deployed, they must generalize to myriad out-of-distribut…

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