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arxiv: 2605.09036 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-09 · 💻 cs.LG

PACT: Peak-Aware Cross-Attention Graph Transformers for Efficient Storm-Surge Emulation

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keywords storm surge emulationgraph transformerspeak-aware learningcross-attentioncoastal hazardsclimate forcingtime-series forecastingextreme event modeling
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The pith

PACT uses a peak-aware graph transformer to outperform baselines in predicting extreme storm surges from atmospheric data.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops PACT as an efficient emulator for station-level storm-surge heights driven by atmospheric forcing fields. It encodes spatial patches with GraphSAGE, aggregates via learned station queries in cross-attention, models time with a Transformer encoder, and decodes lead-specific forecasts. A peak-aware auxiliary head plus tail-focused loss and slope regularizer target better capture of extremes and coherent trajectories. This matters for coastal risk work because full hydrodynamic models cannot run the thousands of climate scenarios needed under changing forcings. Tests on US Northeast tide gauges show lower RMSE and MAE than a strong graph baseline, with gains in peak height and tail behavior for both reanalysis and most CMIP6 runs.

Core claim

PACT represents each forcing patch as a graph, encodes spatial structure with GraphSAGE, and uses a learned station query to aggregate node information through cross-attention rather than uniform pooling. A Transformer encoder models temporal dependence across the forcing history, and a horizon-query decoder generates lead-specific forecasts from a shared temporal memory. To better capture extreme events, it couples a lightweight auxiliary peak-aware head with a tailored training objective that includes a tail-focused loss on peak-dominated samples and a horizon-wise slope regularizer to encourage coherent multi-step evolution.

What carries the argument

The peak-aware cross-attention graph transformer architecture together with its auxiliary peak head, tail-focused loss, and horizon-wise slope regularizer.

If this is right

  • Improved peak fidelity directly lowers underestimation of coastal flood heights during extremes.
  • The 3.5-second inference time per winter season enables large climate-scenario ensembles that hydrodynamic models cannot handle.
  • Within-family transfer across CMIP6 forcings supports use in future-climate surge projections, while the reanalysis-to-GCM drop flags a remaining domain gap.
  • The horizon-wise regularizer supports stable multi-day lead forecasts without separate per-horizon models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same peak-aware losses could be tested on other coastal variables such as wave height or total water level to check generality.
  • The persistent reanalysis-GCM transfer gap suggests adding explicit domain-adaptation layers or physics-informed constraints as a next step.
  • Because the station query is learned, the architecture might extend to ungauged locations by interpolating query embeddings from nearby observed sites.
  • Efficiency gains open the door to coupling the emulator inside real-time early-warning systems that update every few hours during a storm.

Load-bearing premise

The peak-aware auxiliary head, tail-focused loss, and horizon-wise slope regularizer will reliably improve extreme-event capture and multi-step coherence without introducing overfitting or sensitivity to the choice of peak-dominated samples.

What would settle it

On held-out tide-gauge records or additional CMIP6 forcings, compute peak-specific RMSE and check whether PACT no longer shows lower values than the spatio-temporal graph baseline while maintaining similar overall RMSE.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.09036 by Doyup Kwon, Maryam Rahnemoonfar, Ning Lin, Zesheng Liu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the computational setup used in this study. (a) The ADCIRC com￾putational domain over the western North Atlantic, with the fixed local study region highlighted in red. The dashed blue line defines the extents of the computational mesh used for numerical simulations. (b) Enlarged view of the study region showing the four tide-gauge stations used in the analysis: Lewes, Delaware; Boston, Massachu… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overall architecture of PACT. 3.2 Spatial Graph Encoding of Local Atmospheric Forcing We begin by encoding each station-centered forcing patch as a graph so that the model can learn spatially structured representations of the local atmospheric state be￾fore any station-level aggregation is applied. Specifically, given a forcing graph Gt−k(where k = 0, 6h, 12h) at each time step in the input window, we use … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Diagram of station-query readout. The station query is formed by adding a learn￾able station token to the output of a small station encoder that processes fixed station metadata. The resulting query attends over the node embeddings produced by the GraphSAGE encoder through cross-attention, yielding a station-specific representation of the forcing field. Formally, let Uτ ∈ R N×d denote the matrix of node em… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative examples of surge level time series predictions at Battery, NY, made by PACT with peak aware loss on NCEP Reanalysis dataset. MSE loss as the base PACT configuration, and PACT trained with the peak-aware loss as the best PACT configuration. To keep the main text focused, the detailed ablation studies on spatial mean cen￾tering of pressure anomalies and on the peak-aware design are presented in … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative examples of surge level time series predictions on year 2080-2081 in the CNRM dataset, with the model trained on different datasets. Having established the within-dataset performance of PACT, we now examine cross￾dataset generalization, which is substantially more demanding because the atmospheric forcing distributions can differ across reanalysis and climate-model products. We focus on the bes… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Event-level peak prediction accuracy on the Battery station for future-year CMIP6 forcings. Each point corresponds to a detected surge event and plots the predicted peak magni￾tude ˆp against the ground-truth peak magnitude p (in meters). Events are identified as clusters of exceedances above the 95th percentile within each year, and predicted/ground-truth events are paired in temporal order with a 48-hour… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Distributional fidelity of storm-surge peak magnitudes on the Battery station for future-year CMIP6 forcings. We report Gaussian kernel density estimates of event peak magni￾tudes (meters) for the ADCIRC-driven ground truth (GT) and model predictions (Baseline-12h, PACT-Base, PACT-Best), using a shared bandwidth for comparability. Panels correspond to different CMIP6 datasets (AWI, CNRM, EC EARTH, MPI, MRI… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Severity-conditioned peak error on the Battery station for future-year CMIP6 forc￾ings. Peak RMSE (meters) is computed as a function of event severity by binning ground-truth peak magnitudes into quantile bins spanning the 1st–99th percentiles and evaluating RMSE within each bin. The resulting curve is smoothed with a short moving-window mean, and bins with fewer than five events are omitted. Panels corres… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Accurate and efficient storm-surge emulation is essential for coastal hazard assessment, yet high-fidelity hydrodynamic models remain too expensive for large scenario ensembles and rapid evaluation under heterogeneous climate forcings. We present PACT, a peak-aware cross-attention graph transformer for efficient station-level storm-surge prediction from atmospheric forcing fields. PACT represents each forcing patch as a graph, encodes spatial structure with GraphSAGE, and uses a learned station query to aggregate node information through cross-attention rather than uniform pooling. A Transformer encoder models temporal dependence across the forcing history, and a horizon-query decoder generates lead-specific forecasts from a shared temporal memory. To better capture extreme events, we introduce a peak-aware learning strategy that couples a lightweight auxiliary peak-aware head with a tailored training objective, including a tail-focused loss on peak-dominated samples and a horizon-wise slope regularizer to encourage coherent multi-step evolution. Across multiple tide-gauge stations along the US Northeast coast, PACT outperforms a strong spatio-temporal graph neural network baseline in both RMSE and MAE. Diagnostics show improved peak fidelity and tail preservation for reanalysis and most CMIP6 datasets. PACT is also computationally efficient, requiring about 3.5~s to generate a full winter-season surge trajectory for one year after training. Under distribution shift across five CMIP6 forcings, PACT transfers well within the CMIP6 family but degrades markedly when transferring from reanalysis to climate-model forcings, highlighting a persistent reanalysis--GCM gap.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces PACT, a peak-aware cross-attention graph transformer for station-level storm-surge emulation from atmospheric forcings. It encodes spatial structure with GraphSAGE, aggregates via learned station queries in cross-attention, models temporal dependence with a Transformer encoder, and decodes lead-specific forecasts; a peak-aware strategy adds an auxiliary head, tail-focused loss on peak-dominated samples, and horizon-wise slope regularizer. The central empirical claim is that PACT outperforms a strong spatio-temporal GNN baseline in RMSE and MAE across US Northeast tide-gauge stations, with improved peak fidelity and tail preservation on reanalysis and most CMIP6 datasets, while being computationally efficient (~3.5 s per winter-season trajectory) and transferring reasonably within the CMIP6 family but degrading from reanalysis to GCM forcings.

Significance. If the reported gains prove robust and attributable to the proposed components, the work would be significant for enabling large-ensemble coastal hazard assessments under climate change, where high-fidelity hydrodynamic models are too costly. The efficiency and explicit focus on extremes address practical needs in operational and CMIP6-driven risk modeling.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract / peak-aware learning strategy] Abstract and methods (peak-aware learning strategy): No ablation studies or sensitivity analyses isolate the contribution of the auxiliary peak-aware head, tail-focused loss on peak-dominated samples, and horizon-wise slope regularizer to the claimed peak-fidelity and tail-preservation gains. Without these, it remains unclear whether improvements stem from these elements or from the GraphSAGE + cross-attention architecture and the peak-selection heuristic itself.
  2. [Results / evaluation] Results and evaluation sections: The manuscript provides no quantitative details on baseline specifications, exact RMSE/MAE values with error bars, statistical tests, data splits, or loss formulations, despite the central claim resting on outperformance across reanalysis and CMIP6 datasets. This absence prevents assessment of effect sizes and reliability.
  3. [Transferability / CMIP6 experiments] Transferability analysis: The noted degradation from reanalysis to CMIP6 forcings is reported but not examined for interaction with the peak-aware components; if the tail-focused loss and slope regularizer overfit reanalysis peak statistics, this could explain the distribution-shift sensitivity and undermine generalization claims.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states performance improvements without referencing specific tables or figures containing the supporting metrics, making the summary harder to connect to the evidence.
  2. [Methods] Notation for the tail-focused loss weight and slope regularizer coefficient is introduced but not explicitly tied to the free-parameter list or training protocol.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive feedback on our manuscript. We have carefully considered each major comment and provide point-by-point responses below, along with our plans for revisions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / peak-aware learning strategy] Abstract and methods (peak-aware learning strategy): No ablation studies or sensitivity analyses isolate the contribution of the auxiliary peak-aware head, tail-focused loss on peak-dominated samples, and horizon-wise slope regularizer to the claimed peak-fidelity and tail-preservation gains. Without these, it remains unclear whether improvements stem from these elements or from the GraphSAGE + cross-attention architecture and the peak-selection heuristic itself.

    Authors: We agree that ablation studies are essential to isolate the impact of the peak-aware components. In the revised manuscript, we will include comprehensive ablation experiments that systematically remove the auxiliary peak-aware head, the tail-focused loss, and the horizon-wise slope regularizer, reporting their effects on RMSE, MAE, peak fidelity, and tail preservation metrics. This will help attribute the performance gains more precisely. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results / evaluation] Results and evaluation sections: The manuscript provides no quantitative details on baseline specifications, exact RMSE/MAE values with error bars, statistical tests, data splits, or loss formulations, despite the central claim resting on outperformance across reanalysis and CMIP6 datasets. This absence prevents assessment of effect sizes and reliability.

    Authors: We acknowledge the need for greater transparency in the quantitative results. We will revise the results section to include exact RMSE and MAE values with error bars (e.g., standard deviations over multiple seeds or cross-validation folds), detailed specifications of the baseline model, the data split methodology, full mathematical formulations of all loss terms, and results of statistical significance tests (such as paired t-tests) to support the outperformance claims. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Transferability / CMIP6 experiments] Transferability analysis: The noted degradation from reanalysis to CMIP6 forcings is reported but not examined for interaction with the peak-aware components; if the tail-focused loss and slope regularizer overfit reanalysis peak statistics, this could explain the distribution-shift sensitivity and undermine generalization claims.

    Authors: This is a valid concern regarding potential overfitting of the peak-aware strategy to reanalysis data. To address it, we will extend the transferability analysis in the revision by evaluating ablated models (lacking the peak-aware elements) under the same reanalysis-to-CMIP6 transfer scenarios. We will report whether the degradation is more or less pronounced without these components, thereby clarifying their role in the observed distribution shift. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical architecture and evaluation

full rationale

The paper describes a neural architecture (GraphSAGE + cross-attention + Transformer + auxiliary peak head) trained with a composite loss and evaluated via RMSE/MAE on tide-gauge data. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or first-principles derivations are presented that could reduce to fitted quantities by construction. All performance claims are direct empirical comparisons against a baseline; the auxiliary components are motivated heuristically but their effect is measured on held-out data rather than assumed. No self-citation load-bearing steps appear in the provided text. This is standard self-contained ML experimentation.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The abstract does not enumerate specific hyperparameters or background assumptions in detail; the model depends on standard graph and transformer components plus custom loss terms whose weighting is not specified.

free parameters (2)
  • tail-focused loss weight
    Weighting factor applied to peak-dominated samples in the tailored training objective.
  • slope regularizer coefficient
    Strength of the horizon-wise slope regularizer used to encourage coherent multi-step forecasts.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Graph representation of atmospheric forcing patches via GraphSAGE captures the spatial structure relevant to station-level surge.
    Invoked by the choice to encode forcing patches as graphs rather than grids or images.

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