CityTFT models urban building energy using a data-driven approach.
problem Current UBEM methods are time-consuming and based on physics.
method CityTFT uses a TFT framework with an augmented loss function.
result CityTFT predicts energy demands with high accuracy.
Advances in renewable energy generation and introduction of the government targets to improve energy efficiency gave rise to a concept of a Zero Energy Building (ZEB). A ZEB is a building whose net energy usage over a year is zero, i.e., its energy use is not larger than its overall renewables generation. A collection …
The area of building energy management has received a significant amount of interest in recent years. This area is concerned with combining advancements in sensor technologies, communications and advanced control algorithms to optimize energy utilization. Reinforcement learning is one of the most prominent machine lear…
Versatile model for High Energy Physics events.
problem Modeling complex interactions in high-energy physics data.
method Energy-based probabilistic model with multi-purpose architecture.
result Achieves success in diverse applications like simulation, anomaly detection, and particle identification.
Study shows visual feedback and monetary incentives reduce plugload energy consumption in commercial buildings.
problem Mitigating energy consumption in commercial buildings through occupant plugload control.
method Field experiments with visual feedback and monetary incentives in government and university buildings.
result Mean energy reduction of ~9.52% in office environments and ~21.61% in university environments with visual feedback.
New deep learning model optimizes energy use in buildings.
problem Optimizing energy use and comfort in large buildings.
method Transformer-based metamodel trained with simulation and sensor data, calibrated with CMA-ES, optimized with multi-objective algorithms.
result Optimal settings reduce energy loads while maintaining thermal comfort and air quality.
Deep learning boosts building energy load forecasting.
problem Short-term load forecasting in buildings.
method Stacked Boosters Network architecture with sparse interactions, parameter sharing, and equivariant representations.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models in short-term load forecasting tasks.
In this paper, we propose a gamification approach as a novel framework for smart building infrastructure with the goal of motivating human occupants to reconsider personal energy usage and to have positive effects on their environment. Human interaction in the context of cyber-physical systems is a core component and c…
Energy is a limited resource which has to be managed wisely, taking into account both supply-demand matching and capacity constraints in the distribution grid. One aspect of the smart energy management at the building level is given by the problem of real-time detection of flexible demand available. In this paper we pr…
Deep Autoencoder outperforms in anomaly detection for building energy data.
problem Automated detection of faulty data in learning applications.
method Training and comparison of Simple, Deep, and Supervised Deep Autoencoders on ASHRAE building energy dataset.
result Supervised Deep Autoencoder outperforms in total anomalies detected.
Thermal dynamics modeling has been a critical issue in building heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, which can significantly affect the control and maintenance strategies. Due to the uniqueness of each specific building, traditional thermal dynamics modeling approaches heavily depending on physics…
Bayesian deep learning improves building energy simulation accuracy.
problem Uncertainty in surrogate models for building energy performance.
method Training dropout neural networks and stochastic variational Gaussian Processes.
result Surrogate models reduce errors by up to 30% with uncertainty-aware sampling.
New estimates for Hitchin's equations at high energy.
problem Solutions to Hitchin's self-duality equations at high energy.
method New estimates and asymptotic decoupling phenomenon.
result Generalization to arbitrary Higgs bundles.
The implementation of smart building technology in the form of smart infrastructure applications has great potential to improve sustainability and energy efficiency by leveraging humans-in-the-loop strategy. However, human preference in regard to living conditions is usually unknown and heterogeneous in its manifestati…
This paper focuses on energy management in buildings with phase change material (PCM), which is primarily used to improve thermal performance, but can also serve as an energy storage system. In this setting, optimal scheduling of an HVAC system is challenging because of the nonlinear and non-convex characteristics of t…
Transfer learning improves HVAC fault detection with minimal labeled data.
problem Lack of labeled data for HVAC system faults.
method Bayesian classifier trained on large data, then transferred to new buildings with few normal operation samples.
result Few samples are sufficient to maintain classifier precision and recall.
Study improves accuracy of weather data for real-time building simulations.
problem Anomalous and missing weather data affect real-time building energy simulations.
method Introduces a framework for quality control of measured weather data using anomaly detection and neural network infilling.
result Neural Networks enhance the accuracy of data imputation compared to traditional methods.
New proof shows spacetime energy is always positive in higher dimensions.
problem Proving spacetime positive energy in arbitrary dimensions.
method Combines Schoen-Yau, Eichmair, Jang equation, shielding principle.
result Spacetime positive energy theorem proven in arbitrary dimensions.
Physics-based framework improves building energy forecasting.
problem Lack of physical correspondence in machine learning models for building energy systems.
method Combines LTI SSMs with subspace-based domain adaptation (SDA).
result Physics-derived subspaces align with data-derived subspaces for better forecasting.
Rectifies singular set of harmonic maps into complex.
problem Regularity of harmonic maps into complex manifolds.
method Proves (m−2)-rectifiability of singular set. result Singular set is (m−2)-rectifiable. We address the problem of constructing numerical integrators for nonholonomic Lagrangian systems that enjoy appropriate discrete versions of the geometric properties of the continuous flow, including the preservation of energy. Building on previous work on time-dependent discrete mechanics, our approach is based on a d…
Paper proposes PI-DAE for missing data imputation in buildings using physics constraints.
problem Missing data in building energy modeling.
method Physics-informed Denoising Autoencoders (PI-DAE) with multivariate and univariate configurations.
result Enhanced interpretability and robustness to missing data rates.
Paper proposes new loss functions for training energy networks.
problem Challenges in computing gradients for training energy networks.
method Proposes generalized Fenchel-Young losses for efficient gradient computation.
result Demonstrates the calibration of excess risk for linear-concave energies.
Model predicts climate change's impact on real estate prices.
problem Impact of climate transition on real estate prices.
method Modeling property valuation using Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and carbon prices.
result Depreciation of inefficient real estate assets due to climate transition is quantifiable.
This paper presents a novel data-driven technique based on the spatiotemporal pattern network (STPN) for energy/power prediction for complex dynamical systems. Built on symbolic dynamic filtering, the STPN framework is used to capture not only the individual system characteristics but also the pair-wise causal dependen…
In this paper we build an explicit example of a minimal bubble on a Willmore surface, showing there cannot be compactness for Willmore immersions of Willmore energy above 16π. Additionnally we prove an inequality on the second residue for limits sequences of Willmore immersions with simple minimal bubbles. Doing so,…
We prove that a random group of the graph model associated with a sequence of expanders has fixed-point property for a certain class of CAT(0) spaces. We use Gromov's criterion for fixed-point property in terms of the growth of n-step energy of equivariant maps from a finitely generated group into a CAT(0) space, to wh…
Unified geometric description of Kepler flow across all energies.
problem Understanding the Kepler flow across different energy levels.
method Revisiting Ligon--Schaaf regularization and identifying geometric origins of anomalies.
result Unified geometric description of Kepler flow for all energies.
Paper introduces a modified Allen-Cahn equation for better energy equipartition.
problem Improving energy equipartition in mean curvature flow.
method Developed a modified Allen-Cahn equation (MAC) by time-dependent parameter and Z-transform.
result Improved estimate on discrepancy energy for better equipartition.
Proves strict inequality for minimizers of Willmore energy under isoperimetric constraints.
problem Minimizing the Willmore energy under isoperimetric constraints.
method Connected sum approach, building on previous work by Keller-Mondino-Rivière.
result Existence of minimizers for the isoperimetric constrained Willmore problem in every genus.
Increasing energy efficiency in buildings can reduce costs and emissions substantially. Historically, this has been treated as a local, or single-agent, optimization problem. However, many buildings utilize the same types of thermal equipment e.g. electric heaters and hot water vessels. During operation, occupants in t…
New model predicts energy prices volatility by smoothing time variation and persistence.
problem Separate study of volatility's time variation and persistence.
method Dynamic persistence model that allows shocks with heterogeneous persistence to vary smoothly over time.
result Significantly improves volatility forecasts over state-of-the-art models.
The paper improves energy contract pricing models by incorporating jumps and varying parameters.
problem Inaccurate pricing of energy contracts using the Black-Scholes-Merton model.
method Integrates regime switching and time-changed Levy processes with a two-state Markov chain.
result Improved accuracy in pricing energy contracts through a new model.
Researchers find a surface with minimum bending energy for any genus and isoperimetric ratio.
problem Finding surfaces with minimum bending energy for given genus and isoperimetric ratio.
method Gluing catenoidal bridges to a singular solution of the Willmore equation on a punctured sphere.
result Existence of a surface with minimum bending energy for any genus and isoperimetric ratio.
We use matricial free energy to regularize autoencoders, producing Gaussian-like codes.
problem Generating Gaussian-like codes for autoencoders.
method Define a differentiable loss function based on singular values of the code matrix, minimizing matricial free energy.
result Minimizing matricial free energy results in Gaussian-like codes that generalize.
Fast emulators built with neural search accelerate expensive scientific simulations.
problem Slow execution of accurate simulations limits scientific discovery.
method Neural architecture search to build accurate emulators with limited data.
result Simulations accelerated by up to 2 billion times in various scientific fields.
Energy consumption for hot water production is a major draw in high efficiency buildings. Optimizing this has typically been approached from a thermodynamics perspective, decoupled from occupant influence. Furthermore, optimization usually presupposes existence of a detailed dynamics model for the hot water system. The…
EB-GFN models discrete data with amortized MCMC sampling.
problem Probabilistic modeling of high-dimensional discrete data.
method EB-GFN combines GFlowNets with energy-based models for efficient sampling.
result EB-GFN effectively models various discrete data tasks.
A new AI optimization method uses energy-conserving dynamics inspired by Born-Infeld theory.
problem Optimization challenges in non-convex loss functions and machine learning tasks.
method Discretization of Born-Infeld dynamics for energy-conserving Hamiltonian optimization.
result The method avoids high local minima and outperforms traditional methods in shallow valleys.
A brisk building boom of hydropower mega-dams is underway from China to Brazil. Whether benefits of new dams will outweigh costs remains unresolved despite contentious debates. We investigate this question with the "outside view" or "reference class forecasting" based on literature on decision-making under uncertainty …
Machine learning predicts molecular crystal stability.
problem Predicting the stability of molecular crystals.
method Supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques to classify and predict lattice energy.
result Data-driven assessment of chemical groups' contribution to crystal stability.
The paper extends rigidity results to non-compact domains and infinite energy maps.
problem Rigidity of maps in non-compact domains with specific conditions.
method Analyzing homomorphisms and pluriharmonic maps between different geometric spaces.
result Existence of ρ-equivariant pluriharmonic maps of infinite energy under certain conditions. This paper generalizes neural transport learning for free energy estimation in arbitrary state spaces.
problem Efficient estimation of free energy in various state spaces.
method Generalized neural transport learning approach for arbitrary state spaces.
result Validation of the proposed method's effectiveness and efficiency in diverse settings.
A generalized gamification framework is introduced as a form of smart infrastructure with potential to improve sustainability and energy efficiency by leveraging humans-in-the-loop strategy. The proposed framework enables a Human-Centric Cyber-Physical System using an interface to allow building managers to interact wi…
Classifies pinned p-elasticae and finds unique optimality exponents.
problem Classifying and understanding p-elasticae under pinned boundary conditions. method Classification and analysis of p-elasticae, proving uniqueness and existence. result Discovery of a unique exponent p≃1.5728 for full optimality. Develops a new bivariate process for energy markets with improved simulation methods.
problem Modelling energy markets with stochastic delays and efficient simulations.
method Introduces a novel bivariate Normal Inverse Gaussian process and a path simulation scheme.
result Improves simulation efficiency for energy market models.
New method uses neural networks to improve free energy estimation.
problem Estimating free energy differences using FEP is limited by insufficient overlap between distributions.
method Developed a neural network to parameterize a high-dimensional mapping in configuration space.
result Demonstrated substantial variance reduction in free energy estimates.
Improved generative models using overparametrized shallow neural networks.
problem Improving generative models for data with hidden low-dimensional structure.
method Using energy-based models with overparametrized shallow neural networks as approximators.
result Models trained in the 'active' regime outperform those in the 'lazy' or kernel regime, leading to better adaptivity to hidden structure.