ClimaQA: An Automated Evaluation Framework for Climate Foundation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16701v1
• Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:12:19 GMT
• Title: ClimaQA: An Automated Evaluation Framework for Climate Foundation Models
• Authors: Veeramakali Vignesh Manivannan, Yasaman Jafari, Srikar Eranky, Spencer Ho, Rose Yu, Duncan Watson-Parris, Yian Ma, Leon Bergen, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick,
• Abstract summary: We develop ClimaGen, an automated framework that generates question-answer pairs from graduate textbooks with climate scientists in the loop. We present ClimaQA-Gold, an expert-annotated benchmark dataset alongside ClimaQA-Silver, a large-scale, comprehensive synthetic QA dataset for climate science.
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• Abstract: The use of foundation models in climate science has recently gained significant attention. However, a critical issue remains: the lack of a comprehensive evaluation framework capable of assessing the quality and scientific validity of model outputs. To address this issue, we develop ClimaGen (Climate QA Generator), an automated algorithmic framework that generates question-answer pairs from graduate textbooks with climate scientists in the loop. As a result, we present ClimaQA-Gold, an expert-annotated benchmark dataset alongside ClimaQA-Silver, a large-scale, comprehensive synthetic QA dataset for climate science. Finally, we develop evaluation strategies and compare different Large Language Models (LLMs) on our benchmarks. Our results offer novel insights into various approaches used to enhance climate foundation models.

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