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…
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The paper discusses building ETF risk models using a multilevel classification taxonomy.
problem Building accurate risk models for ETFs.
method First, build a multilevel classification taxonomy for ETFs. Then, use this taxonomy to define risk factors and build risk models.
result The approach can accurately classify and model ETF risks.
Modeling buildings' heat dynamics is a complex process which depends on various factors including weather, building thermal capacity, insulation preservation, and residents' behavior. Gray-box models offer a causal inference of those dynamics expressed in few parameters specific to built environments. These parameters …
In this work we study an application of machine learning to the construction industry and we use classical and modern machine learning methods to categorize images of building designs into three classes: Apartment building, Industrial building or Other. No real images are used, but only images extracted from Building I…
Novel probabilistic models forecast residential heating and electricity demand at hourly resolution.
problem Accurate hourly forecasting of residential heating and electricity demand.
method Probabilistic deep learning models trained on gas-heated region data.
result Significant improvement in forecast accuracy compared to NREL's ResStock model.
Occupant behavior (OB) and in particular window openings need to be considered in building performance simulation (BPS), in order to realistically model the indoor climate and energy consumption for heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). However, the proposed OB window opening models are often biased towards …
Clients are increasingly looking for fast and effective means to quickly and frequently survey and communicate the condition of their buildings so that essential repairs and maintenance work can be done in a proactive and timely manner before it becomes too dangerous and expensive. Traditional methods for this type of …
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.
In all types of disasters, from earthquakes to armed conflicts, aid workers need accurate and timely data such as damage to buildings and population displacement to mount an effective response. Remote sensing provides this data at an unprecedented scale, but extracting operationalizable information from satellite image…
The paper builds interpretable models for property markets using machine learning.
problem Noise in real market data and differences from ideal data.
method Combining classical linear regression with kriging for land parcels, and RuleFit method for flats.
result Effective models can be built for property markets while maintaining interpretability.
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.
Characterizes higher rank model geometries using antipodal sets.
problem Identifying higher rank model geometries among Hadamard spaces.
method Using antipodal sets at infinity to characterize model geometries.
result Characterizes Riemannian symmetric spaces, Euclidean buildings, and products as higher rank model geometries.
The Tangent Works team participated in GEFCom 2017 to test its automatic model building strategy for time series known as Tangent Information Modeller (TIM). Model building using TIM combined with historical temperature shuffling resulted in winning the competition. This strategy involved one remaining degree of freedo…
Paper proposes a method to improve building extraction from aerial images by adapting CNN models.
problem Limited generalization of CNN-based segmentation models for unseen images.
method Combines domain transfer and adversarial attack concepts to adapt input images to target images.
result Improves overall IoU and outperforms other methods in cross-dataset experiments.
A software library for constructing and learning probabilistic models is presented. The library offers a set of building blocks from which a large variety of static and dynamic models can be built. These include hierarchical models for variances of other variables and many nonlinear models. The underlying variational B…
Using Bayesian deep learning approaches for uncertainty-aware building energy surrogate modelsstat.ML
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.
Builds geometric structures for algebraic groups over real closed fields.
problem Characterizing and decomposing algebraic groups over specific valued fields.
method Real algebraic geometry to construct and analyze affine buildings.
result Computed stabilizers and obtained group decompositions.
Autoencoder neural networks reconstruct missing indoor environment data.
problem Missing data in building operation data sets.
method Three different autoencoder neural networks trained to reconstruct missing data.
result Reconstructing variables with average RMSEs of 0.42 °C, 1.30 % and 78.41 ppm.
Professional software developers spend a significant amount of time fixing builds, but this has received little attention as a problem in automatic program repair. We present a new deep learning architecture, called Graph2Diff, for automatically localizing and fixing build errors. We represent source code, build config…
AI helps build particle physics theories more efficiently.
problem Building viable particle physics theories requires extensive effort and intuition.
method Developed AMBer, a reinforcement learning framework interacting with physics software.
result AMBer constructs viable models with fewer parameters, validating in neutrino theories.
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.
Study Poisson boundaries of building lattices and generalize rigidity results.
problem Understanding Poisson boundaries of building lattices and their rigidity properties.
method Proved Poisson boundaries and used them to generalize rigidity results.
result Generalized rigidity results for morphisms and cocycles from lattices in buildings to groups with negative curvature.
Interference effects of tall buildings have attracted numerous studies due to the boom of clusters of tall buildings in megacities. To fully understand the interference effects of buildings, it often requires a substantial amount of wind tunnel tests. Limited wind tunnel tests that only cover part of interference scena…
The large thermal capacity of buildings enables heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems to be exploited as demand response (DR) resources. Optimal DR of HVAC units is challenging, particularly for multi-zone buildings, because this requires detailed physics-based models of zonal temperature variations…
Unified approach to learn interpretable concepts from data.
problem Building interpretable machine learning models and highly-performing foundation models.
method Relating causal representation learning and foundation models, defining concepts and proving their recoverability.
result Provable recovery of human-interpretable concepts from diverse data.
The objective of this paper is to define an effective strategy for building an ensemble of Genetic Programming (GP) models. Ensemble methods are widely used in machine learning due to their features: they average out biases, they reduce the variance and they usually generalize better than single models. Despite these a…
We show that if a homeomorphism between the ideal boundaries of two Fuchsian buildings preserves the combinatorial cross ratio almost everywhere, then it extends to an isomorphism between the Fuchsian buildings. It follows that Mostow rigidity holds for Fuchsian buildings: if a group acts properly and cocompactly on tw…
We describe some buildings related to complex Kac-Moody groups. First we describe the spherical building of SLn(C) (i.e. the projective geometry PG(Cn)) and its Veronese representation. Next we recall the construction of the affine building associated to a discrete valuation on the rational function field . Then …
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.
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.
Flat subsets in Euclidean buildings are contained within apartments.
problem Understanding the structure of flat subsets in Euclidean buildings.
method Proving containment within apartments.
result Convex flat subsets are contained in apartments.
Near real-time damage diagnosis of building structures after extreme events (e.g., earthquakes) is of great importance in structural health monitoring. Unlike conventional methods that are usually time-consuming and require human expertise, pattern recognition algorithms have the potential to interpret sensor recording…
The paper studies surface quotients of Fuchsian buildings.
problem Understanding group actions and symmetries in Fuchsian buildings.
method Developed theory of surface quotients, proved existence of discrete subgroups.
result Existence of discrete subgroups whose quotient is a compact surface.
Research proves limits on harmonic map orders into Euclidean buildings.
problem Limits on the possible orders of harmonic maps from surfaces to Euclidean buildings.
method Direct analysis of homogeneous maps and related spherical billiards problem.
result The order of harmonic maps is of the form where divides .
A new method builds sparse polynomial chaos expansions for models with dependent inputs.
problem Quantifying uncertainty in models with dependent inputs.
method Data-driven approach to construct orthonormal polynomials recursively based on input correlations.
result Reduces the number of observations and improves numerical stability and computational efficiency.
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.
In this note, we show that the asymptotic dimension of any building is finite and equal to the asymptotic dimension of an apartment in that building.
In this work, we utilize Machine Learning for early recognition of patients at high risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is critical for successful prevention strategies for this devastating syndrome. The difficulty in early ARDS recognition stems from its complex and heterogenous nature. In this s…
Building performance discrepancies between building design and operation are one of the causes that lead many new designs fail to achieve their goals and objectives. One of main factors contributing to the discrepancy is occupant behaviors. Occupants responding to a new design are influenced by several factors. Existin…
A transfer learning method builds high-dimensional models using disparate datasets.
problem Building comprehensive prediction models with small sample sizes and limited features.
method Transfer learning approach using external data to build a reduced model and apply calibration equations.
result Proposes a penalized generalized method of moment framework for inference and one-step estimation.
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.
We prove isoperimetric inequalities for quotients of -dimensional Affine buildings. We use these inequalities to prove topological overlapping for the 2-dimensional skeletons of these buildings.
Gaussian process models -also called Kriging models- are often used as mathematical approximations of expensive experiments. However, the number of observation required for building an emulator becomes unrealistic when using classical covariance kernels when the dimension of input increases. In oder to get round the cu…
Classical methods to control heating systems are often marred by suboptimal performance, inability to adapt to dynamic conditions and unreasonable assumptions e.g. existence of building models. This paper presents a novel deep reinforcement learning algorithm which can control space heating in buildings in a computatio…
Harmonic maps to Euclidean buildings have rectifiable singular strata.
problem Understanding the structure of singular points for harmonic maps.
method Defining singular strata and proving rectifiability using the rectifiable Reifenberg program.
result Rectifiability of singular strata for harmonic maps into -connected complexes.
Automates building structural design with reduced mass and carbon footprint.
problem Time-consuming and laborious manual design process for buildings.
method Formulated building structures as graphs, trained end-to-end pipeline with a differentiable simulator.
result Optimal structural designs comparable to GA, with reduced building mass and carbon footprint.
Deep learning has shown promising results on many machine learning tasks but DL models are often complex networks with large number of neurons and layers, and recently, complex layer structures known as building blocks. Finding the best deep model requires a combination of finding both the right architecture and the co…
SBO uses dual voting to build consensus in noisy feedback settings.
problem Collective decision-making under social influence.
method Dual voting system with noisy public votes and private interviews.
result Efficient consensus-building through noisy public votes, debiased by estimated social graph.