Knowledge-Graph-Augmented Chronos-2 for HEC-RAS Surrogate Forecasting
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arXiv:2609.21381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether coupling a time-series foundation model to hydraulic project knowledge improves surrogate forecasting of HEC-RAS water-surface elevation (WSE). We present KG-Chronos-2, which combines a frozen Chronos-2 predictor with exact-state residual decoding, graph-conditioned historical retrieval, and input-aligned correction. We compare the method with persistence, a residual LSTM, project-conditioned recurrent GeoFNO, a hydraulic DCRNN-style model, and frozen Chronos-2. Task-specific fitting uses the 2008 simulation. Evaluation c
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- arXiv:2609.21381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether coupling a time-series foundation model to hydraulic project knowledge improves surrogate forecasting of HEC-RAS water-surface elevation (WSE).
- We present KG-Chronos-2, which combines a frozen Chronos-2 predictor with exact-state residual decoding, graph-conditioned historical retrieval, and input-aligned correction.
- We compare the method with persistence, a residual LSTM, project-conditioned recurrent GeoFNO, a hydraulic DCRNN-style model, and frozen Chronos-2.
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