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ARXIV:2603.24696 · MULTIMODAL AI FOR SCIENCE · SUBMITTED 27 MAR · 20:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.24696MULTIMODAL AI FOR SCIENCESUBMITTED 27 MAR · 20:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEGokce Inal · Pouyan Navard · Alper Yilmaz · arXiv
A specialized vision-language model and dataset for lunar exploration, enabling detailed terrain characterization and analysis.
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A specialized vision-language model and dataset for lunar exploration, enabling detailed terrain characterization and analysis. A key hindrance is the absence of large-scale datasets that pair real planetary imagery with detailed scientific descriptions.
Recent advances in multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled joint reasoning over visual and textual information, yet their application to planetary science remains largely unexplored. A key hindrance is the absence of large-scale datasets…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. To enable this capability, we curate a new large-scale multimodal lunar dataset, LUCID (LUnar Caption Image Dataset) consisting of 96k high-resolution panchromatic images paired…
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A specialized vision-language model and dataset for lunar exploration, enabling detailed terrain characterization and analysis.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.24696A specialized vision-language model and dataset for lunar exploration, enabling detailed terrain characterization and analysis.
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Recent advances in multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled joint reasoning over visual and textual information, yet their application to planetary science remains largely unexplored. A key hindrance is the absence of large-scale datasets that pair real planetary imagery with detailed scientific descriptions. In this work, we introduce LLaVA-LE (Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Lunar Exploration), a vision-language model specialized for lunar surface and subsurface characterization. To enable this capability, we curate a new large-scale multimodal lunar dataset, LUCID (LUnar Caption Image Dataset) consisting of 96k high-resolution panchromatic images paired with detailed captions describing lunar terrain characteristics, and 81k question-answer (QA) pairs derived from approximately 20k images in the LUCID dataset. Leveraging this dataset, we fine-tune LLaVA using a two-stage training curriculum: (1) concept alignment for domain-specific terrain description, and (2) instruction-tuned visual question answering. We further design evaluation benchmarks spanning multiple levels of reasoning complexity relevant to lunar terrain analysis. Evaluated against GPT and Gemini judges, LLaVA-LE achieves a 3.3x overall performance gain over Base LLaVA and 2.1x over our Stage 1 model, with a reasoning score of 1.070, exceeding the judge's own reference score, highlighting the effectiveness of domain-specific multimodal data and instruction tuning to advance VLMs in planetary exploration. Code is available at https://github.com/OSUPCVLab/LLaVA-LE.
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A specialized vision-language model and dataset for lunar exploration, enabling detailed terrain characterization and analysis. A key hindrance is the absence of large-scale datasets that pair real planetary imagery with detailed scientific descriptions.
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Recent advances in multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled joint reasoning over visual and textual information, yet their application to planetary science remains largely unexplored. A key hindrance is the absence of large-scale datasets that pair real planetary im...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. To enable this capability, we curate a new large-scale multimodal lunar dataset, LUCID (LUnar Caption Image Dataset) consisting of 96k high-resolution panchromatic images paired with detailed captions des...
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Multimodal AI for Science moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
we introduce LLaVA-LE (Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Lunar Exploration), a vision-language model specialized for lunar surface and subsurface characterization.
The abstract explicitly states the specialization of LLaVA-LE for lunar exploration.
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we curate a new large-scale multimodal lunar dataset, LUCID (LUnar Caption Image Dataset) consisting of 96k high-resolution panchromatic images paired with detailed captions describing lunar terrain characteristics
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and 81k question-answer (QA) pairs derived from approximately 20k images in the LUCID dataset.
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Leveraging this dataset, we fine-tune LLaVA using a two-stage training curriculum: (1) concept alignment for domain-specific terrain description, and (2) instruction-tuned visual question answering.
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LLaVA-LE achieves a 3.3x overall performance gain over Base LLaVA
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and 2.1x over our Stage 1 model
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with a reasoning score of 1.070, exceeding the judge's own reference score
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