Operational Solar Flare Forecasting System Using an Explainable Large Language Model
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| author | Li, Xuebao Lv, Yongshang Wei, Jinfang Zheng, Yanfang Li, Ting Wang, Rui Wu, Zixian Ye, Hongwei Yan, Pengchao Abidin, Zamri Zainal Shah, Noraisyah Mohamed Xiang, Changtian Zhang, Shunhuang Ji, Xiaojia Huang, Xusheng Wang, Xiaotian Jin, Honglei |
| author_facet | Li, Xuebao Lv, Yongshang Wei, Jinfang Zheng, Yanfang Li, Ting Wang, Rui Wu, Zixian Ye, Hongwei Yan, Pengchao Abidin, Zamri Zainal Shah, Noraisyah Mohamed Xiang, Changtian Zhang, Shunhuang Ji, Xiaojia Huang, Xusheng Wang, Xiaotian Jin, Honglei |
| contents | This study focuses on forecasting major (>=M-class) solar flares that can severely impact the near-Earth environment. We construct two types of datasets using the Space Weather HMI Active Region Patches (SHARP), and develop a flare prediction network based on large language model (LLMFlareNet). We apply SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to explain the model predictions. We develop an operational forecasting system based on the LLMFlareNet model. We adopt a daily mode for performance comparison across various operational forecasting systems under identical active region (AR) number and prediction date, using daily operational observational data. The main results are as follows. (1) Through ablation experiments and comparison with baseline models, LLMFlareNet achieves the best TSS scores of 0.720 +/- 0.040 on the ten cross-validation (CV) dataset with mixed ARs. (2) By both global and local SHAP analyses, we identify that R_VALUE is the most influential physical feature for the prediction of LLMFlareNet, aligning with flare magnetic reconnection theory. (3) In daily mode, LLMFlareNet achieves TSS scores of 0.680/0.571 (0.689/0.661, respectively) on the dataset with single/mixed ARs, markedly outperforming NASA/CCMC (SolarFlareNet, respectively). This work introduces the first application of a large language model as a universal computation engine with explainability method in this domain, and presents the first comparison between operational flare forecasting systems in daily mode. The proposed LLMFlareNet-based system demonstrates substantial improvements over existing systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Operational Solar Flare Forecasting System Using an Explainable Large Language Model Li, Xuebao Lv, Yongshang Wei, Jinfang Zheng, Yanfang Li, Ting Wang, Rui Wu, Zixian Ye, Hongwei Yan, Pengchao Abidin, Zamri Zainal Shah, Noraisyah Mohamed Xiang, Changtian Zhang, Shunhuang Ji, Xiaojia Huang, Xusheng Wang, Xiaotian Jin, Honglei Solar and Stellar Astrophysics This study focuses on forecasting major (>=M-class) solar flares that can severely impact the near-Earth environment. We construct two types of datasets using the Space Weather HMI Active Region Patches (SHARP), and develop a flare prediction network based on large language model (LLMFlareNet). We apply SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to explain the model predictions. We develop an operational forecasting system based on the LLMFlareNet model. We adopt a daily mode for performance comparison across various operational forecasting systems under identical active region (AR) number and prediction date, using daily operational observational data. The main results are as follows. (1) Through ablation experiments and comparison with baseline models, LLMFlareNet achieves the best TSS scores of 0.720 +/- 0.040 on the ten cross-validation (CV) dataset with mixed ARs. (2) By both global and local SHAP analyses, we identify that R_VALUE is the most influential physical feature for the prediction of LLMFlareNet, aligning with flare magnetic reconnection theory. (3) In daily mode, LLMFlareNet achieves TSS scores of 0.680/0.571 (0.689/0.661, respectively) on the dataset with single/mixed ARs, markedly outperforming NASA/CCMC (SolarFlareNet, respectively). This work introduces the first application of a large language model as a universal computation engine with explainability method in this domain, and presents the first comparison between operational flare forecasting systems in daily mode. The proposed LLMFlareNet-based system demonstrates substantial improvements over existing systems. |
| title | Operational Solar Flare Forecasting System Using an Explainable Large Language Model |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22811 |