U-Cast: A Surprisingly Simple and Efficient Frontier Probabilistic AI Weather Forecaster

Inference

See the instructions at the top of run_inference_standalone.py and run that script. Checkpoints will be uploaded soon to huggingface.

Training

Please stay tuned for the training code and checkpoints, which will be released soon.

Citation

If you use this code in your research, please cite:

@article{cachay2026ucast,
    title = {U-Cast: A Surprisingly Simple and Efficient Frontier AI Probabilistic Weather Forecaster},
    author = {Cachay, Salva Rühling and Watson-Parris, Duncan and Yu, Rose},
    year = {2026},
}