IMPACT AI
The IMPACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Science focus area aims to advance scientific discovery through innovative applications and partnerships in data science and artificial intelligence. Projects within this focus area address the challenges associated with managing access to and analysis of increasingly vast data collections by creating new efficiencies that amplify and extend the capabilities of scientists.
Science Foundation Models
The foundation models (FMs) team builds powerful AI models trained on scientific datasets. These models can detect complex patterns and processes in data, transforming high-dimensional inputs into more manageable, lower-dimensional representations. The AI for Science approach emphasizes building five key foundation models across scientific domains, supported by one common large language model that enables collaboration, scalability, and adaptability through open science principles, shared workflows, and infrastructure. This unified approach aims to streamline development and accelerate scientific discovery using AI.
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Large Language Models for Science
The large language models (LLM) team has developed and continues to fine-tune and identify applications of INDUS, a language model developed with IBM Research, trained on scientific literature, documentation and technical reports from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The LLM strategy for AI for Science focuses on developing a comprehensive LLM framework tailored to NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD), including curated pretraining resources, an openly available encoder model, and tools for science-focused question answering and retrieval. This approach supports domain-specific applications while promoting openness and reusability in scientific research.
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