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Equation 8 · Part 2 · How AI for Science and Medicine Actually Works

Symbol v

N(v)\mathcal{N}(v)
vv

What this part means

the message-passing update for a node.

Its job in the formula

v is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Where the article explains it

In general form, a message-passing update for a node v with neighbours N(v)\mathcal{N}(v) looks like

The passage around this formula

…information can propagate across the globe within a single forward pass; a decoder then reads the updated mesh back out to the original grid to produce the forecast. In general form, a message-passing update for a node v with neighbours N(v)\mathcal{N}(v) looks like

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