A Pre-trained Variational Autoencoder for Gyrokinetic Plasma Turbulence Surrogate Modeling

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arXiv:2609.38438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning surrogate models offer a promising path toward accelerating plasma turbulence simulations. We present PreVAE-Turb, a surrogate modeling framework that leverages pre-trained variational autoencoders (VAEs) from the Stable Diffusion image generation model for efficient spatial compression of turbulence fields. The pre-trained VAE is fine-tuned on turbulence data using a physics-informed loss function that includes a spectral loss o