Add inference quickstart

README.md

@@ -12,12 +12,25 @@ Ai2 Climate Emulator (ACE) is a family of models designed to simulate atmospheri
 
 ACE2-ERA5 is trained on the [ERA5 dataset](https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.3803) and is described in [ACE2: Accurately learning subseasonal to decadal atmospheric variability and forced responses](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11268).
 
-Quick links:
+### Quick links
+
 - 📃 [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11268)
 - 💻 [Code](https://github.com/ai2cm/ace)
 - 💬 [Docs](https://ai2-climate-emulator.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
 - 📂 [All Models](https://huggingface.co/collections/allenai/ace-67327d822f0f0d8e0e5e6ca4)
 
+### Inference quickstart
+
+1. Download this repository. Optionally, you can just download a subset of the `forcing_data` and `initial_conditions` for the period you are interested in.
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+2. Update paths in the `inference_config.yaml`. Specifically, update `experiment_dir`, `checkpoint_path`, `initial_condition.path` and `forcing_loader.dataset.path`.
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+3. Install code dependencies with `pip install fme`.
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+4. Run inference with `python -m fme.ace.inference inference_config.yaml`.
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+### Strengths and weaknesses
+
 Briefly, the strengths of ACE2-ERA5 are:
 - accurate atmospheric warming response to combined increase of sea surface temperature and CO2 over last 80 years
 - highly accurate atmospheric response to El Niño sea surface temperature variability