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  # VITA: Variational Pretraining of Transformers for Climate-Robust Crop Yield Forecasting
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- This is the official pretrained model weights for the paper [arXiv:2508.03589](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03589) to be presented in **AAAI 2026**. VITA is a variational pretraining framework that learns weather representations from rich satellite data and transfers them to yield prediction tasks with limited ground-based measurements.
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  ## Overview
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- VITA addresses the data asymmetry problem in agricultural AI: pretraining uses 31 meteorological variables from NASA POWER satellite data, while deployment relies on only 6 basic weather features. Through variational pretraining with a seasonality-aware sinusoidal prior, VITA achieves state-of-the-art performance in predicting corn and soybean yields across 763 U.S. Corn Belt counties, particularly during extreme weather years.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  # VITA: Variational Pretraining of Transformers for Climate-Robust Crop Yield Forecasting
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+ This is the official pretrained model weights for the paper [arXiv:2508.03589](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03589). VITA is a variational pretraining framework that learns weather representations from rich satellite data and transfers them to yield prediction tasks with limited ground-based measurements.
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  ## Overview
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+ VITA addresses the data asymmetry problem in agricultural AI: pretraining uses 31 meteorological variables from NASA POWER satellite data, while deployment relies on only 6 basic weather features. Through variational pretraining with a seasonality-aware sinusoidal prior, VITA achieves state-of-the-art performance in predicting corn and soybean yields across 763 U.S. Corn Belt counties, particularly during extreme weather years.
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+ ## Citation
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @inproceedings{hasan2026vita,
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+ title={VITA: Variational Pretraining of Transformers for Climate-Robust Crop Yield Forecasting},
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+ author={Hasan, Adib and Roozbehani, Mardavij and Dahleh, Munther},
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+ booktitle={Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
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+ year={2026},
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+ url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03589},
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+ }
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+ ```