Interpretable Transformer for Water Level Forecasting

Forecasting the water level of the Han river is important to control the traffic and avoid natural disasters. There are many variables related to the Han river and they are intricately connected. In this work, we propose a novel transformer that exploits the causal relationship based on the prior knowledge among the variables and forecasts the four bridges of the Han river: Cheongdam, Jamsu, Hangang, and Haengju. Our proposed model considers both spatial and temporal causation by formalizing the causal structure as a multilayer network and using masking methods. Due to this approach, we can have the interpretability that consistent with prior knowledge. Additionally, we propose a novel recalibration method and loss function for high accuracy of extreme risk in time series. In real data analysis, we use the Han river dataset from 2016 to 2021, and compare the proposed model with deep learning models.