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Record W4414517423 · doi:10.1016/j.hydroa.2025.100208

Fuzzy-based input method for uncertainty quantification in a deterministic model comparison with ChatGPT for peak flow prediction

2025· article· en· W4414517423 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Hydrology X · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicHydrological Forecasting Using AI
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsInterpretabilityFuzzy logicUncertainty analysisUncertainty quantificationRepresentation (politics)WatershedMeasurement uncertaintyHydrological modellingSensitivity analysis

Abstract

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• Compared model performance of PCSWMM and GPT models for peak-flow prediction under varying data-split approaches using comprehensive evaluation metrics. • Developed a novel integration of fuzzy methods for quantifying uncertainty in rainfall and peak-flow observations. • Quantified the uncertainty in model prediction (peak flow), enhancing real-world plausibility and interpretability of predictions, and effectively conveying this uncertainty to stakeholders for informed decision-making. ChatGPT, a generative AI, is applied and compared to the PCSWMM hydrological model for modelling peak flow in a small watershed in the runoff period of April to September. A new approach for fuzzy mathematical representation of rainfall and peak-flow errors was developed to lead to a fuzzy based GPT model and fuzzy based PCSWMM model. This led to fuzzy output for both models and a more appropriate application of both models given data errors and large language model structure. Training and validation were conducted with an approximately 25/75 split of the data and again using a 75/25 data split. Evaluation metrics were used to compare model performance under the different data-split scenarios. Calibrated and validated PCSWMM outperformed GPT in the 25/75 data split but ChatGPT 4o mini’s generation outperformed PCSWMM in the 75/25 split and with comparable validation metrics and an application that was less onerous than when using PCSWMM. The fuzzy-based error analysis showed that for both models, a fuzzy-based approach produced more interpretable and reasonable results than either original model. Moreover, the trade-off between coverage (uncertainty range) and precision for GPT‑4o mini model’s fuzzy output at high membership levels demonstrated enhanced predictive performance under data‑scarce conditions.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.411
Threshold uncertainty score0.404

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.293 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it