Proposes a deep neural network for early disk drive failure prediction.
problem Early prediction of disk drive failure using multivariate time series sensor data.
method Enriched features derived from sensor data through transformations, combined with ensemble learning and deep neural network architecture.
result Significantly improved classification accuracy in predicting disk drive failure.
Study quantifies impacts of heterogeneity in FL on smartphone data.
problem Heterogeneity in FL devices causes performance degradation.
method Collected 136k smartphone data, built heterogeneity-aware FL platform, conducted extensive experiments.
result Heterogeneity causes up to 9.2% accuracy drop and 2.32x training time increase.
This work uses SVM to identify track component failures in AC Track Circuits.
problem Detecting and identifying specific track component failures in AC Track Circuits.
method Applied SVM classifier to STDS track circuit data.
result Successfully classified 15 different track component failures.
Personal mobile sensing is fast permeating our daily lives to enable activity monitoring, healthcare and rehabilitation. Combined with deep learning, these applications have achieved significant success in recent years. Different from conventional cloud-based paradigms, running deep learning on devices offers several a…
This paper proposes a communication-efficient deep anomaly detection framework for industrial IoT.
problem Accurately detecting anomalies in time-series data from edge devices in industrial IoT.
method A federated learning-based approach with an Attention Mechanism-based Convolutional Neural Network-Long Short Term Memory (AMCNN-LSTM) model and gradient compression.
result The proposed framework accurately and timely detects anomalies with reduced communication overhead.
Communication networks have evolved from specialized, research and tactical transmission systems to large-scale and highly complex interconnections of intelligent devices, increasingly becoming more commercial, consumer-oriented, and heterogeneous. Propelled by emergent social networking services and high-definition st…
This paper proposes a multi-head attention model for predicting RUL in IIoT environments.
problem Estimating RUL for complex industrial equipment using IIoT data.
method Multi-Head Attention Mechanism combined with LSTM for multi-dimensional time-series data.
result The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on benchmark datasets.
Machine learning has begun to play a central role in many applications. A multitude of these applications typically also involve datasets that are distributed across multiple computing devices/machines due to either design constraints (e.g., multiagent systems) or computational/privacy reasons (e.g., learning on smartp…
Predicting the health of components in complex dynamic systems such as an automobile poses numerous challenges. The primary aim of such predictive systems is to use the high-dimensional data acquired from different sensors and predict the state-of-health of a particular component, e.g., brake pad. The classical approac…
FedZKT enables resource-constrained devices to participate in federated learning with heterogeneous models.
problem Inequality in resource allocation hinders participation from resource-constrained devices in federated learning.
method Zero-shot knowledge transfer through a server-assigned distillation process.
result FedZKT effectively transfers knowledge across heterogeneous on-device models without requiring comparable local training efforts.
With emerging smart communities, improving overall system availability is becoming a major concern. In order to improve the reliability of the components in a system we propose an inference model to predict Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of those components. In this paper we work with components of backend data servers su…
Deep learning identifies unknown IoT devices in network traffic.
problem Unauthorized IoT devices pose security risks in BYOD environments.
method Deep learning applied to network traffic images for IoT device identification.
result Over 99% accuracy in identifying 10 IoT devices and non-white-listed devices.
On-device federated learning updates edge models by exchanging trained results.
problem Limited training data at edge devices due to model drift.
method OS-ELM for sequential training and autoencoder for anomaly detection, combined with federated learning.
result The proposed approach produces a merged model as accurately as traditional methods with lower costs.
A method for trust evaluation of devices in human-device coexistence systems.
problem Efficient trust evaluation of devices in systems with diverse physical and social attributes.
method Canonical correlation analysis-enhanced hypergraph self-supervised learning (HSLCCA).
result The proposed HSLCCA method significantly outperforms baseline algorithms in identifying trusted devices.
Two approaches scale up DNN optimization for diverse edge devices.
problem Optimizing DNNs for edge devices with varying performance requirements.
method Reuse performance predictors on proxy devices and build scalable predictors.
result Optimized DNN designs for many different edge devices without lengthy optimization.
Economics tool predicts failure times in reliability systems.
problem Predicting optimal failure times in weighted k-out-of-n reliability systems with heterogeneous component failure.
method Using rational expectations to analyze and predict failure times in reliability systems with heterogeneous component failure.
result Different measures are optimal for predicting system failure depending on component failure distributions.
Unified model predicts multi-mode failure with multi-sensor data.
problem Independent failure mode and RUL prediction ignores inherent relationship.
method Hierarchical Bayesian framework with Cox model, Gaussian process, and multinomial distributions.
result Robust uncertainty quantification and accurate prediction of multi-mode failure.
This paper optimizes how deep learning models are distributed across different devices.
problem Optimizing how large, complex neural networks are split across multiple devices.
method Identified and solved an optimization problem for device placement of DNN operators.
result Automated algorithms that solve the device placement problem for modern pipelined settings.
PAGER detects failures in deep regression models using a new framework.
problem Detecting failures in deep regression models.
method PAGER uses a combination of epistemic uncertainty and manifold non-conformity scores.
result PAGER accurately characterizes and detects failures in deep regressors.
Distributed learning adapts to diverse devices, improving performance.
problem Training neural networks on devices with varying capabilities and resources.
method Each device trains a customized neural network, sharing parameters with others.
result Achieves higher rewards on more powerful devices without sacrificing weaker ones.
Risk Advisor predicts and mitigates ML deployment failures.
problem Predicting and mitigating test-time failure risks of ML systems.
method Post-hoc meta-learner for estimating failure risks and uncertainties.
result Reliably predicts deployment-time failure risks across various ML models.
CalNF models rare failures with limited data, improving safety in autonomous systems.
problem Challenges in modeling and debugging rare safety-critical failures due to limited data.
method CalNF, a self-regularized framework for posterior learning from limited data.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on data-limited failure modeling and inverse problems.
Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) is an emerging engineering discipline which is concerned with the analysis and prediction of equipment health and performance. One of the key challenges in PHM is to accurately predict impending failures in the equipment. In recent years, solutions for failure prediction have evo…
This work improves safety validation of autonomous vehicles by finding interpretable failures.
problem Finding interpretable failures of autonomous systems in simulation.
method Signal temporal logic expressions optimized for high likelihood and human interpretability.
result Our methodology finds more interpretable failures with higher likelihood compared to baseline approaches.
Framework predicts remaining useful life of DSH subsystems under unknown failure modes.
problem Predicting remaining useful life of DSH subsystems with unknown failure modes.
method Unsupervised framework using mixture of Gaussian regressions and Expectation-Maximization algorithm.
result Improved prediction accuracy and interpretability of RUL.
Flexible device participation improves federated learning convergence.
problem Strict device participation limits federated learning reach.
method Analytical results and new aggregation scheme for flexible participation.
result Convergence improved with flexible device participation.
Deep RL predicts equipment maintenance from sensor data.
problem Equipment downtime due to sensor data overload.
method Model-free Deep Reinforcement Learning for optimal maintenance policy.
result Automatic maintenance policy learning from sensor data.
The paper calculates the likelihood of a financial market failure involving multiple major banks.
problem Estimating the probability of a market failure involving multiple globally important banks.
method Multivariate Cox process across G-SIBs, deriving various theorems on market failure probabilities.
result The probability of a market failure increases with the number of G-SIBs and is inevitable if there are too many.
Paper proposes a method to predict disk failures using multi-layer domain adaptive learning.
problem Traditional machine learning models struggle to predict disk failures due to limited data.
method Multi-layer domain adaptive learning with source and target domains.
result The proposed method improves failure prediction accuracy on disk data with few failure samples.
We aim to predict and explain service failures in supply-chain networks, more precisely among last-mile pickup and delivery services to customers. We analyze a dataset of 500,000 services using (1) supervised classification with Random Forests, and (2) Association Rules. Our classifier reaches an average sensitivity of…
GE finds failures in autonomous systems without domain heuristics.
problem Finding failures in autonomous systems without domain-specific heuristics.
method Adaptive stress testing using go-explore (GE) algorithm.
result GE finds failures in scenarios other RL techniques cannot solve.
The predominant paradigm for using machine learning models on a device is to train a model in the cloud and perform inference using the trained model on the device. However, with increasing number of smart devices and improved hardware, there is interest in performing model training on the device. Given this surge in i…
Classification algorithms have been widely adopted to detect anomalies for various systems, e.g., IoT, cloud and face recognition, under the common assumption that the data source is clean, i.e., features and labels are correctly set. However, data collected from the wild can be unreliable due to careless annotations o…
Method distinguishes between failures and domain shifts in industrial data streams.
problem Confusing domain shifts with failures in industrial data.
method Modified Page-Hinkley changepoint detector and supervised domain-adaptation-based anomaly detection.
result Allows differentiation between failures and domain shifts.
Semi-decentralized federated learning combines device-to-server and device-to-device communications for faster convergence.
problem Faster convergence in federated learning with decentralized model training.
method Two timescale hybrid federated learning (TT-HF) with cooperative D2D model aggregations.
result Achieves sublinear convergence rate of O(1/t) with adaptive control algorithm.
System predicts respiratory failure up to 8 hours early.
problem Early detection of respiratory failure in ICU patients.
method Machine learning on ICU patient monitoring data.
result System outperforms traditional clinical decision-making.
New method avoids failures in physics-constrained systems using active learning.
problem Handling fatal failures in systems governed by physics constraints.
method Develops a novel active learning method that considers implicit physics constraints.
result Achieves zero-failure in composite fuselage assembly process without explicit failure regions.
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating learning systems in safety critical domains such as autonomous driving, where failures can have catastrophic consequences. We focus on two problems: searching for scenarios when learned agents fail and assessing their probability of failure. The standard method for agent e…
DeepSIP predicts network failures' impact using CNN from syslog and traffic data.
problem Predicting service impact from network failures.
method Temporal multimodal CNN for predicting time to recovery and traffic loss.
result DeepSIP reduced prediction error by approximately 50%.
This paper optimizes AI inference on edge devices with reduced communication and computation costs.
problem Efficiently performing AI inference on resource-constrained edge devices with reduced communication and computation costs.
method A three-step framework for effective inference: model split point selection, communication-aware model compression, and task-oriented encoding of intermediate features.
result Our proposed framework achieves a better trade-off and significantly reduces inference latency compared to baseline methods.
AutoML has become a popular service that is provided by most leading cloud service providers today. In this paper, we focus on the AutoML problem from the \emph{service provider's perspective}, motivated by the following practical consideration: When an AutoML service needs to serve {\em multiple users} with {\em multi…
PSO optimizes hyperparameters for edge ML models in FL.
problem Efficient local training and inference at edge devices.
method Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for hyperparameter tuning.
result PSO reduces the number of communication rounds by 2 orders of magnitude.
In the last two years, more than 200 papers have been written on how machine learning (ML) systems can fail because of adversarial attacks on the algorithms and data; this number balloons if we were to incorporate papers covering non-adversarial failure modes. The spate of papers has made it difficult for ML practition…
Two BO methods improve reliability optimization for rare failures.
problem Maximizing reliability of designs subject to random perturbations.
method Bayesian optimization with Thompson sampling and knowledge gradient.
result Proposed methods outperform existing techniques in extreme failure probability scenarios.
New method finds failures in high-fidelity simulators with fewer steps.
problem Finding failures in high-fidelity simulators is expensive and impractical.
method Adaptive stress testing with backward algorithm adaptation from low-fidelity to high-fidelity.
result Significantly fewer high-fidelity simulation steps needed to find failures.
We propose a real-time context-aware learning system along with the architecture that runs on the mobile devices, provide services to the user and manage the IoT devices. In this system, an application running on mobile devices collected data from the sensors, learned about the user-defined context, made predictions in…
SplitEasy trains ML models on mobile devices without server data transfer.
problem Training complex DL models on resource-limited mobile devices.
method Split learning approach where sensitive layers are trained locally, computationally intensive layers on server.
result SplitEasy trains models on mobile devices with minimal data transfer, near-constant time per sample.
Entropy-based GP adaptive design improves failure probability estimation.
problem Limited accuracy in failure probability estimation due to model evaluation costs.
method Entropy-based Gaussian process (GP) adaptive design combined with multifidelity importance sampling (MFIS).
result More accurate failure probability estimates and higher confidence.