用可解释的模型实现全国每日暴雨洪灾损失精准预测。
DELUGE: Towards Continental-Scale Daily Pluvial Flood Damage Prediction via Interpretable Conditioning on Foundation Model Embeddings

- 基于基础模型嵌入与地形特征,设计可解释的水文响应模块。
- 在高索赔区域预测上,比传统模型提升9%至30%的准确率。
- 适合灾害风险评估、保险精算及应急决策人员使用。
暴雨洪涝占美国国家洪水保险计划(NFIP)理赔案件的45%,且比河流和沿海洪水更难预测。现有方法受限于粗分辨率、区域性或计算量大的过程模型,难以实现全国每日尺度预测。本文提出DELUGE,一种多模态深度学习框架,可在约1公里分辨率下实现全美范围的每日暴雨洪灾损失预测,训练数据为2017-2022年经时空校正的NFIP理赔记录。模型聚焦全国前100个高索赔75公里单元,覆盖约81%的暴雨洪灾理赔。架构创新在于水气象分支中的两个参数化模块——值调节器与时间调节器,分别基于地形描述符与AlphaEarth基础模型嵌入进行条件化,直接暴露可检视的水文响应参数,实现架构级可解释性。在空间块留出测试中,DELUGE在美元加权的精度-召回曲线下面积(PR-AUC)上优于调优后的随机森林、XGBoost和LightGBM基线模型9%至30%,该指标关注高成本、低频但关键的理赔事件。此外,我们认为这种可解释条件化机制可迁移至其他地理空间预测任务。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Pluvial (rainfall-driven) flooding accounts for 45% of National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims in the United States and is harder to predict than its riverine and coastal counterparts, with existing approaches limited to coarse resolution, regional domains, or computationally intensive process-based models unsuitable for daily continental-scale use. We present DELUGE, a multimodal deep learning framework for daily pluvial flood damage prediction at ~1 km resolution and national scale, trained on spatially and temporally corrected NFIP claims (2017-2022) and structured around the hazard, exposure, and vulnerability components of disaster risk. Rather than blanket coverage of the Conterminous United States (CONUS), we model the top 100 highest-claim 75 km cells, distributed nationwide and accounting for ~81% of total pluvial flood claims. Our architectural novelty is a pair of parametric modules in the hydrometeorology branch, a Value Modulator and a Temporal Modulator, conditioned on terrain descriptors and AlphaEarth foundation-model embeddings, that expose directly inspectable hydrological response parameters and provide architecture-level interpretability-by-design. Under a spatial block holdout, DELUGE outperforms tuned Random Forest, XGBoost, and LightGBM baselines by 9% to 30% on a dollar-weighted area under the precision-recall curve (PR-AUC), a metric that emphasizes the rare, high-cost claims of greatest operational interest. Beyond DELUGE, we argue this interpretable conditioning scheme is a transferable pattern for integrating foundation-model embeddings into other geospatial prediction tasks.
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