Cross-Regional Grapevine Cold Hardiness Prediction via Learned Multimodal Latent Representations

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Original abstract

Accurate daily predictions of cold hardiness in woody plants are critical in regions where freezing temperatures can damage dormant buds and reduce seasonal yield. Existing biophysical, hybrid, and deep learning models have shown high predictive accuracy when trained on local data but remain largely site-specific. The limited availability of cold hardiness data, coupled with the lack of principled methods for transferring cold hardiness predictions to new regions and cultivars, has limited the broader adoption and practical utility of these approaches, particularly in data-scarce regions. To address these limitations, we propose a cold hardiness prediction framework that learns a transferable latent representation by capturing region-specific variation through learned embeddings. To enable prediction in previously unseen regions, we infer embeddings from (1) text descriptions of the cultivar and growing region, and (2) limited historical observations, supporting both zero-shot and few-shot transfer. Experiments on datasets from six regions across North America demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms state-of-the-art cold hardiness prediction methods, yielding more accurate predictions and substantially improving transfer to data-scarce regions.

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