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LunarFM: A Shared Multimodal Representation of the Moon's Surface

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TL;DR - LunarFM is a multimodal foundation model that unifies heterogeneous lunar orbital measurements into a shared surface representation. It could streamline scientific analysis and resource mapping despite sparse labels and fragmented datasets.

  • Integrates 18 channels from six instruments across three lunar missions.
  • Uses a multimodal masked autoencoder to produce 768-dimensional embeddings.
  • Supports similarity search, few-shot resource mapping, mineral abundance regression, and geological unit classification.
  • Releases code, pretrained models, embeddings, and co-registered data covering 70°S to 70°N.

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LunarFM: A Shared Multimodal Representation of the Moon's Surface

arXiv cs.LG Marc Girona-Mata, Jakob Gawlikowski, Sumit Goski, Gautier Bardi de Fourtou, Valentin T. Bickel, Ben Moseley, Abigail Calzada-Diaz, Sylvester Kaczmarek, Raúl Ramos-Pollán 2026-07-24 arXiv:2607.22408

TL;DR - LunarFM is a multimodal foundation model that unifies heterogeneous lunar orbital measurements into a shared surface representation. It could streamline scientific analysis and resource mapping despite sparse labels and fragmented datasets.

  • Integrates 18 channels from six instruments across three lunar missions.
  • Uses a multimodal masked autoencoder to produce 768-dimensional embeddings.
  • Supports similarity search, few-shot resource mapping, mineral abundance regression, and geological unit classification.
  • Releases code, pretrained models, embeddings, and co-registered data covering 70°S to 70°N.
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