Robots adapt to damage with a single policy and diagnosis.
problem Robotic failure due to damage during mission-critical tasks.
method Damage-aware control architecture using supervised learning for diagnosis and policy adaptation.
result Single-shot diagnosis and adaptation achieved with a single policy.
Machine learning improves measuring climate adaptation impacts.
problem Measuring adaptation to climate change using weather damage elasticities.
method Debiased machine learning approach in panel data settings.
result Long-run impacts of damaging heat exposure significantly offset short-run impacts.
A new framework combines CNN and GRU for better structural damage detection.
problem Improving damage detection in structural engineering using machine learning.
method Hierarchical CNN and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) framework to model spatial and temporal relations.
result The proposed HCG framework significantly outperforms existing methods for structural damage detection.
The high structural deficient rate poses serious risks to the operation of many bridges and buildings. To prevent critical damage and structural collapse, a quick structural health diagnosis tool is needed during normal operation or immediately after extreme events. In structural health monitoring (SHM), many existing …
This paper reviews traditional and modern methods for detecting structural damage using vibrations.
problem Early warning of structural damage to maintain civil structures.
method Vibration-based methods and ML/DL algorithms.
result ML and DL algorithms show superior performance in detecting structural damage.
Proposes a multi-objective variational autoencoder for smart infrastructure damage detection.
problem Detecting and diagnosing damage in smart infrastructure using multi-way data.
method Multi-objective variational autoencoder (MVA) method for smart infrastructure damage detection and diagnosis.
result The method accurately detects structural damage, estimates severity, and captures damage locations.
Gaussian Process Regression improves damage assessment in structural health monitoring.
problem Inaccurate damage quantification in varying conditions and environments.
method Gaussian Process Regression models with Damage Indices for probabilistic damage assessment.
result The method provides probability-based decision-making for structural health monitoring.
Paper improves disaster damage detection using modern transfer learning.
problem Harder to obtain damaged examples than undamaged ones.
method Revisits classical bagging with modern transfer learning.
result Significantly outperforms existing methodologies.
Optimizes package types for e-commerce to reduce damage and costs.
problem Sub-optimal package types lead to damaged shipments and high costs.
method Multi-stage approach that balances shipment and damage costs using a scalable algorithm.
result Significant cost savings of tens of millions of dollars achieved.
Machine learning detects building damage in satellite images.
problem Extracting damage information from satellite imagery is slow and labor-intensive.
method Used four convolutional neural network models to detect damaged buildings.
result Models performed well in detecting damaged buildings in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Generative Adversarial Networks create synthetic data for structural damage detection.
problem Data scarcity in structural damage detection.
method 1-D Wasserstein Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (1-D WDCGAN-GP) for synthetic data generation.
result Generated synthetic data improves damage detection accuracy in 1-D Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.
Tornadoes are the most violent of all atmospheric storms. In a typical year, the United States experiences hundreds of tornadoes with associated damages on the order of one billion dollars. Community preparation and resilience would benefit from accurate predictions of these economic losses, particularly as populations…
A model predicts building damage locations in near real-time using intensity-based features.
problem Accurate and timely damage diagnosis of building structures after extreme events.
method Support vector machines and Bayesian optimization for probabilistic hazard intensity determination.
result The model achieves 83.1% accuracy in identifying damage locations in a reinforced concrete moment frame.
Generative model predicts remaining life of damaged structures.
problem Prognosis of damage and remaining useful life of structures.
method Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in a population-based SHM framework.
result Algorithm provides confident predictions about structures' remaining useful life.
Research shows higher damages may encourage more disclosure in corporate disputes.
problem How to resolve disputes over undisclosed material events in a way that encourages voluntary disclosure.
method Dynamic continuous-time model of management's equilibrium disclosure decision.
result Increased damages may lead to an endogenous increase in voluntary disclosure.
Quickly adapts fault diagnosis models for industrial machines.
problem Fault diagnostic models trained for lab machines fail on industrial ones.
method Net2Net transformation followed by fine-tuning.
result Models can be quickly adapted for new operating conditions.
This paper classifies typhoon damage features using aerial photography.
problem Typhoon damages and slow recovery times.
method Aerial photography for classification of eight classes including land covers and disaster areas.
result Visualize and explain typhoon disaster features using convolutional activation maps.
Structural damage due to excessive loading or environmental degradation typically occurs in localized areas in the absence of collapse. This prior information about the spatial sparseness of structural damage is exploited here by a hierarchical sparse Bayesian learning framework with the goal of reducing the source of …
Deep learning improves damage localization in ultrasonic waves under uncertainty.
problem Uncertainty in wave propagation due to environmental factors and noise.
method Deep learning model trained on simulated wave data with uncertainty.
result Deep learning model learns robust representations of wave data with uncertainty.
Kriging is an efficient machine-learning tool, which allows to obtain an approximate response of an investigated phenomenon on the whole parametric space. Adaptive schemes provide a the ability to guide the experiment yielding new sample point positions to enrich the metamodel. Herein a novel adaptive scheme called Mon…
The accurate diagnosis and assessment of neurodegenerative disease and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) remain open challenges. Both cause cognitive and functional deficits due to focal axonal swellings (FAS), but it is difficult to deliver a prognosis due to our limited ability to assess damaged neurons at a cellular le…
Modeling supply chain disruptions from climate hazards with adaptive firms.
problem Systemic physical climate risk in supply chains.
method Agent-based model integrating geospatial hazards and firm adaptation.
result Firms' adaptive strategies reduce disruption by 48%.
Study optimizes climate adaptation strategies for NYC.
problem Catastrophic damages from extreme weather in NYC.
method Real options analysis and extreme value theory.
result Optimal adaptation pathways identified for NYC.
We introduce economic models based on Boolean Delay Equations: this formalism makes easier to take into account the complexity of the interactions between firms and is particularly appropriate for studying the propagation of an initial damage due to a catastrophe. Here we concentrate on simple cases, which allow to und…
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.
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.
The method of geometric harmonics is adapted to the situation of incomplete data by means of the iterated geometric harmonics (IGH) scheme. The method is tested on natural and synthetic data sets with 50--500 data points and dimensionality of 400--10,000. Experiments suggest that the algorithm converges to a near optim…
Formulates LGFO to measure fair ML systems using legal signals.
problem Formally incompatible measures of unfairness in ML systems.
method Uses legal signals to measure social cost of unfairness.
result LGFO aligns with societal view of unfairness.
Reducing barriers to entry in large-scale ML markets, study shows multi-objective learning can lower data requirements.
problem Barriers to entry in emerging markets for large-scale machine learning models.
method Defined a multi-objective high-dimensional regression framework to study reputational damage and data requirements.
result The number of data points needed for a new company to enter the market can be significantly smaller than the incumbent company's dataset size.
Researchers predict butt rot volume using harvester data and remote sensing.
problem Predicting butt rot volume in Norway spruce stands for optimal forest management.
method Used random forest models with harvester information, remote sensing, and environmental data.
result Remotely sensed predictor variables were more important than environmental variables.
Researchers developed a generic model to account for structural variability in SHM.
problem Variability in natural frequency due to operational and environmental conditions limits SHM technologies.
method An overlapping mixture of Gaussian processes (OMGP) was used to generate a generic representation of normal condition.
result The OMGP model provided a generic representation (form) to characterise the normal condition of structures.
Probabilistic methods improve SHM by learning from noisy, incomplete data.
problem Noisy and incomplete SHM data, lack of prior labels.
method Probabilistic algorithms for semi-supervised, active, and multi-task learning.
result Probabilistic methods enhance SHM by incorporating new data.
Self-supervised learning improves RUL prediction with limited data in fatigue damage prognosis.
problem Limited labelled data for RUL prediction in fatigue damage prognosis.
method Pre-training deep learning models on unlabelled sensor data using self-supervised learning.
result Self-supervised pre-trained models significantly outperform non-pre-trained models in RUL prediction with scarce labelled data.
Proposes novel losses for fine-grained categorical domain adaptation.
problem Fine-grained alignment of categories across domains in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Joint category-domain classifier with adversarial training losses for both domain and category levels, and vicinal domain adaptation.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.
Forest management relies on the evaluation of silviculture practices. The increase in natural risk due to climate change makes it necessary to consider evaluation criteria that take natural risk into account. Risk integration in existing software requires advanced programming skills.We propose a user-friendly software …
Model shows how discount rates affect intergenerational equity in climate mitigation.
problem Intergenerational equity in climate mitigation decisions.
method Extended DICE model with stochastic discount rates and financing extensions.
result Discount-rate uncertainty amplifies intergenerational inequality in climate mitigation.
This paper presents a simple agent-based model of an economic system, populated by agents playing different games according to their different view about social cohesion and tax payment. After a first set of simulations, correctly replicating results of existing literature, a wider analysis is presented in order to stu…
It is illustrated a methodology to compute the pure premium for the automobile insurance (claim frequency and severity) using generalized linear models. It is obtained the pure premium for the partial damage loss cover (PPD) using a set of automobile insurance policies with an exposition of a year. It is found that the…
Deep RL optimizes sensor placement in digital twins for dynamic data acquisition.
problem Limited applicability of traditional sensor placement techniques for online applications.
method Formulates sensor placement as a Markov decision process and uses deep reinforcement learning.
result Improves predictive accuracy and reliability of digital twins through adaptive sensor repositioning.
Study adapts AI research methods to analyze image augmentation impacts on neural network operations.
problem Understanding how image augmentation affects neural network performance and sensitivity.
method Adapted treatment-control paradigm, uses variance decomposition, Sobol indices, and Shapley values for sensitivity analysis.
result Visualizes and quantifies sensitivity to different image augmentation parameters.
New method improves smoothness of robot learning.
problem Jerky motion patterns on real robots from Deep RL exploration.
method Adapting state-dependent exploration to Deep RL algorithms with gSDE.
result Improved exploration and performance on real robots.
Climate-contingent finance helps adapt to uncertain climate risks.
problem Uncertainty in future climate scenarios makes proactive adaptation less feasible.
method Underwrite climate adaptation projects with repayment based on future climate scenarios.
result Optimal financing reduces over- and under-preparation risks.
Paper proposes model to assess financial risk of grid-ignited wildfires.
problem Financial risk and solvency threats from grid-ignited wildfires.
method Integrated model to evaluate damage costs and risk levels.
result Identifies high-risk areas for preemptive actions.
DASC combines social media and car sensors to improve disaster response.
problem Inconsistent reliability and inconsistent availability of human sensors.
method Hybrid social-car sensing system using game theory, feedback control, and MDP.
result DASC improves detection accuracy and efficiency in disaster response.
Paper proposes a novel approach to improve spatiotemporal precipitation forecasts.
problem Improving accuracy of spatiotemporal precipitation forecasts for flood damage mitigation.
method Introduces a rain-code fusion approach using ConvLSTM and multi-frame fusion for spatiotemporal precipitation code-to-code forecasting.
result Demonstrates enhanced accuracy in precipitation forecasts beyond 3 timesteps using the rain-code fusion.
Seasonal influenza infects between 10 and 50 million people in the United States every year, overburdening hospitals during weeks of peak incidence. Named by the CDC as an important tool to fight the damaging effects of these epidemics, accurate forecasts of influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) forewarn public he…
Machine learning predicts failure in brittle materials with high accuracy.
problem Predicting failure in brittle materials under repetitive loads.
method Phase-field model combined with supervised machine learning.
result Framework predicts failure with acceptable accuracy even in noisy data.
Higher conservative training increases reward-hacking in reasoning models.
problem Reward hacking during online adaptation in reasoning models.
method Conservative offline training with varying levels of conservatism (β) was applied to a Qwen3-14B policy, and online adaptation was measured against a reward ensemble.
result Higher conservatism (β) increases reward-hacking damage, measured by the Goodhart gap and AUGC.