HESS Opinions: Never train a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network on a single basin

Autor: F. Kratzert, M. Gauch, D. Klotz, G. Nearing
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol 28, Pp 4187-4201 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1027-5606
1607-7938
DOI: 10.5194/hess-28-4187-2024
Popis: Machine learning (ML) has played an increasing role in the hydrological sciences. In particular, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are popular for rainfall–runoff modeling. A large majority of studies that use this type of model do not follow best practices, and there is one mistake in particular that is common: training deep learning models on small, homogeneous data sets, typically data from only a single hydrological basin. In this position paper, we show that LSTM rainfall–runoff models are best when trained with data from a large number of basins.
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