Adaptive Hybrid Machine Learning Model For Forecasting The Step-Like Displacements of Reservoir Colluvial Landslides: A Case Study in The Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China

Abstract

Constructing an accurate and stable displacement prediction model is essential to build a capable early warning system for landslide disasters. To overcome the drawbacks of previous displacement prediction models for step-like landslides, such as the incomplete or excessive decompositions of cumulative displacements and input factors and the redundancy or lack of input factors, we propose an adaptive hybrid machine learning model. This model is composed of three parts. First, candidate factors are proposed based on the macroscopic deformation response of landslides. Then, the landslide displacement and its candidate factors are adaptively decomposed into different displacement and factor components by applying optimized variational mode decomposition (OVMD). Second, in the gray wolf optimizer-based kernel extreme learning machine (GWO-KELM) model, the global sensitivity analysis (GSA) of the prediction results of different displacement components to each decomposed factor is analyzed based on the PAWN method. Then, the decomposed factors are reduced according to the GSA results. Third, based on the reduced factors, the optimal GWO-KELM models of the different displacement components are established to predict the displacement. Taking the Baishuihe landslide as an example, we used the raw data of three representative monitoring sites from June 2006 to December 2016 to verify the validity, accuracy, and stability of the model. The results indicate that the proposed hybrid model can effectively determine the displacement decomposition parameters. In addition, this model performed well over a three-year forecast with low model complexity.