Non-intrusive algorithm corrects corrupted data in classification models.
problem Classification problems with corrupted training data.
method Post-processes a trained classification model with a correction procedure.
result Corrected models deliver correct classification results even with corrupted data.
Non-intrusive load monitoring or energy disaggregation involves estimating the power consumption of individual appliances from measurements of the total power consumption of a home. Deep neural networks have been shown to be effective for energy disaggregation. In this work, we present a deep neural network architectur…
Improved non-intrusive load monitoring with a novel neural network.
problem Accurately disaggregating household electricity consumption without dedicated meters.
method Developed a scale- and context-aware network with multi-scale features and contextual information.
result Significantly improved accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods.
A novel algorithm uses Gaussian process regression to interpret non-intrusive ROMs.
problem Lack of interpretability in non-intrusive ROMs.
method Latent-space interpolation using Gaussian process regression.
result Interpretability of ROMs improved with continuous time evolution.
MEVA aggregates model predictions to improve accuracy without needing model details.
problem Improving model accuracy by combining multiple models.
method Non-intrusive, data-driven framework that treats models as black boxes and optimizes aggregation methods.
result MVA outperforms MEA in estimating aggregated predictions, enhancing robustness and accuracy.
Improves NILM with multi-label SRC, outperforming state-of-the-art.
problem Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) for energy disaggregation.
method Modified multi-label sparse representation based classification (SRC).
result Significant improvement over state-of-the-art techniques with minimal training data.
Neural networks predict flow and elastic stresses in viscoelastic turbulence.
problem Predicting flow and elastic stresses in viscoelastic turbulent flows using limited experimental data.
method Convolutional neural networks trained on wall-normal velocity and pressure data.
result Neural networks accurately predict flow and elastic stresses, especially during low-drag events.
Increasing population indicates that energy demands need to be managed in the residential sector. Prior studies have reflected that the customers tend to reduce a significant amount of energy consumption if they are provided with appliance-level feedback. This observation has increased the relevance of load monitoring …
A convolutional sequence to sequence non-intrusive load monitoring model is proposed in this paper. Gated linear unit convolutional layers are used to extract information from the sequences of aggregate electricity consumption. Residual blocks are also introduced to refine the output of the neural network. The partiall…
A new deep learning method for energy disaggregation.
problem Energy disaggregation or non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) to identify individual appliance power usage.
method Sequence to Point Learning based on Bidirectional Dilated Residual Network (BRDN).
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in all appliances on REDD and UK-DALE datasets.
The paper introduces metrics to evaluate NILM algorithms' performance on unseen buildings.
problem Assessing NILM algorithms' performance on new, unseen buildings.
method Developed several metrics to evaluate NILM algorithms' generalization ability.
result Demonstrated the utility of the proposed metrics through two case studies.
Paper proposes a novel optimization method for disaggregating smart meter data.
problem Energy disaggregation, inferring appliance-specific energy consumption from aggregate meter data.
method Two-stage optimization approach: first phase uses mixed integer programming, second phase binary quadratic optimization with penalty terms and appliance constraints.
result Proposed method successfully reconstructs appliance signatures, overcoming previous optimization-based methods' limitations.
New method learns low-dimensional models for systems with non-polynomial terms.
problem Modeling systems with non-polynomial nonlinear terms that are spatially local and given in analytic form.
method Non-intrusive model reduction method that learns operators for linear and polynomially nonlinear dynamics via a least-squares problem incorporating given non-polynomial terms.
result Comparable accuracy to intrusive methods that require full knowledge of governing equations.
Method learns latent dynamics of complex systems from noisy data.
problem Challenging to construct ROMs from noisy high-dimensional data.
method Recurrent stochastic variational deep kernel learning (SVDKL).
result Framework accurately predicts system evolution in low-dimensional latent spaces.
Energy disaggregation in a non-intrusive way estimates appliance level electricity consumption from a single meter that measures the whole house electricity demand. Recently, with the ongoing increment of energy data, there are many data-driven deep learning architectures being applied to solve the non-intrusive energy…
New algorithm extracts device profiles for short-term power predictions in commercial buildings.
problem Short-term power prediction in commercial buildings with high accuracy.
method Unsupervised extraction of device profiles from aggregate power measurements, disaggregation using particle swarm optimization, and state changes forecast by artificial neural networks.
result Developed approach outperforms existing methods with high accuracy.
Deep neural network improves NILM with attention mechanism.
problem Energy disaggregation of individual appliance power demands from aggregate meter readings.
method Regression and classification subnetworks with attention mechanism.
result Proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art on REDD and UK-DALE datasets.
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), also known as energy disaggregation, is a blind source separation problem where a household's aggregate electricity consumption is broken down into electricity usages of individual appliances. In this way, the cost and trouble of installing many measurement devices over numerous ho…
Enhances PCE surrogates using transfer learning for expensive simulations.
problem Over-sampling in PCE for expensive forward models.
method Transfer learning from similar tasks to a new task with limited training data.
result Improves scalability and accuracy of PCE surrogates.
Study predicts room occupancy using machine learning, achieving high accuracy.
problem Efficient room occupancy management for energy conservation.
method Leveraged diverse machine learning models, focusing on Random Forest.
result Random Forest model achieved highest predictive accuracy.
Convolutional networks predict turbulence from wall quantities.
problem Predicting turbulence fields from wall-shear-stress components and wall pressure.
method Two CNN models: FCN and FCN-POD, trained on DNS data.
result FCN and FCN-POD models outperform EPOD in predicting turbulence fields.
Over the past decade a wide spectrum of machine learning models have been developed to model the neurodegenerative diseases, associating biomarkers, especially non-intrusive neuroimaging markers, with key clinical scores measuring the cognitive status of patients. Multi-task learning (MTL) has been commonly utilized by…
Traditionally, the automatic recognition of human activities is performed with supervised learning algorithms on limited sets of specific activities. This work proposes to recognize recurrent activity patterns, called routines, instead of precisely defined activities. The modeling of routines is defined as a metric lea…
This thesis tackles NILM challenges with a new dataset and efficient edge deployment techniques.
problem Limited datasets and high computational power for NILM deployment.
method Developed an interoperable data collection framework and introduced model compression techniques.
result Efficient edge deployment of NILM models for global scalability and sustainability.
New method uses sparse random features for crashworthiness analysis.
problem Efficient surrogate modelling for uncertainty quantification.
method Sparse Random Features combined with self-supervised dimensionality reduction.
result Superiority over state-of-the-art techniques in crashworthiness analysis.
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a technique to recover source appliances from only the recorded mains in a household. NILM is unidentifiable and thus a challenge problem because the inferred power value of an appliance given only the mains could not be unique. To mitigate the unidentifiable problem, various met…
Computer simulation has become the standard tool in many engineering fields for designing and optimizing systems, as well as for assessing their reliability. To cope with demanding analysis such as optimization and reliability, surrogate models (a.k.a meta-models) have been increasingly investigated in the last decade.…
This work proposes a novel method for interpolating ROMs without solving FEM models.
problem Interpolating ROMs for unseen parameter values without solving FEM models.
method Non-intrusive Space-Time POD interpolation on compact Stiefel manifolds.
result Robust ROMs derived for unseen parameter values with strong correlations to high-fidelity simulations.
Developers of text-to-speech synthesizers (TTS) often make use of human raters to assess the quality of synthesized speech. We demonstrate that we can model human raters' mean opinion scores (MOS) of synthesized speech using a deep recurrent neural network whose inputs consist solely of a raw waveform. Our best models …
While existing mathematical descriptions can accurately account for phenomena at microscopic scales (e.g. molecular dynamics), these are often high-dimensional, stochastic and their applicability over macroscopic time scales of physical interest is computationally infeasible or impractical. In complex systems, with lim…
Reduced-order model improves LES for atmospheric pollutant dispersion.
problem Accurate near-field pollutant concentration tracking in urban areas.
method Combining POD and GPR for non-intrusive reduced-order modeling.
result Component-by-component optimization captures spatial scales in high-order modes.
Subsurface applications including geothermal, geological carbon sequestration, oil and gas, etc., typically involve maximizing either the extraction of energy or the storage of fluids. Characterizing the subsurface is extremely complex due to heterogeneity and anisotropy. Due to this complexity, there are uncertainties…
MF-GLaM models improve stochastic simulator emulation with multifidelity data.
problem Challenging to emulate stochastic simulators' full conditional probability distribution.
method Proposes MF-GLaMs to efficiently emulate HF stochastic simulators using LF data.
result MF-GLaMs achieve improved accuracy or comparable performance at reduced cost.
Sparse Polynomial Chaos expansions improve accuracy and efficiency in simulations.
problem Challenges in computational efficiency and accuracy for Polynomial Chaos modeling.
method Sparse Bayesian learning using Variational Relevance Vector Machines.
result Sparse Polynomial Chaos expansions achieve comparable performance to compressive sensing with fewer data points.
A new method optimizes complex engineering designs under uncertainty efficiently.
problem Optimizing large, uncertain engineering designs with limited resources.
method Multi-level informed optimization via decomposed Kriging.
result Significantly faster and more accurate optimization compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Paper improves voice trigger detection for privacy-centric smart assistants.
problem Mitigating false triggers in voice-activated smart assistants.
method Analyzing ASR lattices using graph neural networks (GNN).
result GNNs effectively reduce false triggers by ~87% at 99% true positive rate.
Detects adversarial inputs in deep learning models without modifying the main network.
problem Vulnerability of deep learning models to adversarial inputs.
method Augment main network with observer networks that classify inputs as clean or adversarial.
result 99.5% detection accuracy on MNIST and 97.5% on CIFAR-10 datasets.
Random feature model approximates PDE solutions efficiently.
problem Approximating solutions to PDEs with high-dimensional inputs and outputs.
method Random feature model applied to infinite-dimensional operators.
result Efficient and accurate approximation of PDE solutions.
Paper proposes personalized climate control for driver comfort.
problem Limited research on in-vehicle climate control and driver preferences.
method IoT platform for data collection, machine learning for driver behavior recognition, and personalized preference recommendation.
result Prototype demonstrates effective and accurate climate control for driver comfort.
Improved DeepONet variants using Transformer cross-conditioning enhance PDE solution efficiency.
problem Solving partial differential equations efficiently and accurately.
method Transformer-inspired DeepONet variants with bidirectional cross-conditioning.
result Improved efficiency and accuracy compared to modified DeepONet, with variant effectiveness tied to PDE characteristics.
ARMED models improve deep learning interpretability and generalize better on clustered data.
problem Clustered data leads to spurious associations and poor model fitting.
method Adversarial regularization and mixed effects subnetworks.
result ARMED models outperform conventional methods in accuracy and generalization.
Paper proposes an unsupervised NILM framework using GLDA for diverse utility data.
problem Extract appliance components from aggregate energy signals without labeled data.
method Bayesian hierarchical mixture models, Gaussian Latent Dirichlet Allocation (GLDA), online processing.
result Algorithm finds useful consumption patterns from mixed utility data.
Neural Chaos uses neural networks instead of polynomials for stochastic modeling.
problem Challenges in constructing surrogate models with uncertainty quantification for complex or high-dimensional stochastic processes.
method Adopting spectral expansion formalism with neural network basis functions, identifying them data-drivenly without prior assumptions.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of the proposed scheme through numerical examples of varying complexity.
Biodiversity conservation depends on accurate, up-to-date information about wildlife population distributions. Motion-activated cameras, also known as camera traps, are a critical tool for population surveys, as they are cheap and non-intrusive. However, extracting useful information from camera trap images is a cumber…
This work ensures stability in POD basis interpolation for pMOR in hyperelasticity.
problem Stability of POD basis interpolation on Grassmann manifolds for pMOR in hyperelasticity.
method Stability conditions derived from Grassmannian Exponential map and principal angles.
result Explicit stability conditions for practical pMOR applications and non-monotonic error behavior.
The emergence of an ageing population is a significant public health concern. This has led to an increase in the number of people living with progressive neurodegenerative disorders like dementia. Consequently, the strain this is places on health and social care services means providing 24-hour monitoring is not sustai…
Fuzzy prediction sets generalize binary predictions to include elements at varying confidence levels.
problem Binary prediction sets are limited; fuzzy prediction sets offer richer guarantees.
method Generalize prediction sets to fuzzy sets, showing they are e-values with merging properties.
result Optimal e-values lead to optimal fuzzy prediction sets, including optimal conformal prediction.
This paper re-examines conformal e-prediction and its advantages over conformal prediction.
problem The relationship between conformal prediction and conformal e-prediction.
method Systematic re-examination of conformal prediction and conformal e-prediction from a modern perspective.
result Conformal e-prediction has advantages such as ease of designing conditional predictors and guaranteed validity of cross-predictors.