Can Deep Neural Networks Improve Compression of Very Large Scientific Data? · Research brief

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technical change: Weather foundation models as compression predictors
published: 2026-06-12

A useful negative result showing that prediction accuracy does not imply better compression, but the terabyte-scale scientific data and domain models are outside the reader's normal workload.

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For a variable $X$ , let $ϵ$ be a user-specified relative error bound. Let $C$ be a compression function that generates the compressed version $Z$ of $X$ , i.e., $Z = C (X)$ , and let $D$ be a decompression function that generates the decompressed version $X^{'}$ of $Z$ , i.e., $X^{'} = D (Z)$ . The process is lossy, therefore $X^{'}$ is an approximation of $X$ . The goal is to define a pair of functions $⟨ C, D ⟩$ such that the compression ratio $ρ$ of $X$ is maximized, while the relative difference between each original data point $X_{i}$ and its decompressed counterpart $X_{i}^{'} = D {(C (X))}_{i}$ does not exceed the error bound $ϵ$ . Formally:

\underset{⟨ C, D ⟩}{\arg ​ \max} \frac{| X |}{| C (X) |}, such that \frac{| X_{i} - D ​ {(C (X))}_{i} |}{r_{X}} \leq ϵ

equation (2) · §2. Background · baseline

Let $𝐭_{k}$ , $𝐩_{k}$ , and $𝐩_{k}^{'}$ be the full multi-variable states at step $k$ , that is, the stacks of the per-variable slices $t_{X, k}$ , $p_{X, k}$ , and $p_{X, k}^{'}$ over all $X \in 𝒳$ . We store the first two states $𝐭_{0}$ and $𝐭_{1}$ losslessly to seed the loop. For each step $k \geq 2$ the model $ℱ$ predicts from the two preceding corrected states:

𝐩_{k} = ℱ (𝐩_{k - 2}^{'}, 𝐩_{k - 1}^{'}) .

equation (10) · §3. Methodology · proposed method

For a variable $X$ , let $| X |$ be the size of the original data in bytes. Consider some compression method, and let $| Z |$ be the total size of the compressed data in bytes; this includes all the overhead data needed for decompression, such as metadata, initialization values for auto-regressive predictors, learned latent representations, ML model weights, etc. The compression ratio $ρ$ is defined as:

ρ = \frac{| X |}{| Z |}

equation (1) · §2. Background · metric

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Replaces traditional predictors in error-bounded compressors such as SZ3.1 with pretrained weather models including GraphCast, Aurora, and CRA5. It adds large-model inference to the compression pipeline and requires suitable domain foundation models. More accurate predictions do not improve the aggregate dataset compression ratio because the residuals' spatial structure hurts entropy coding.
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Reports up to 91% better reconstruction quality and up to 9.6x higher compression ratios for highly predictable variables, but no dataset-level compression-ratio improvement.
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