Ranger improves DNNs' fault resilience without re-computation.
problem Transient faults in DNNs cause errors, reducing reliability.
method Range restriction to transform critical faults to benign faults.
result Significant improvement in error resilience (3x to 50x) with no accuracy loss.
This paper presents a spatiotemporal unsupervised feature learning method for cause identification of electromagnetic transient events (EMTE) in power grids. The proposed method is formulated based on the availability of time-synchronized high-frequency measurement, and using the convolutional neural network (CNN) as t…
Diverse fault types, fast re-closures, and complicated transient states after a fault event make real-time fault location in power grids challenging. Existing localization techniques in this area rely on simplistic assumptions, such as static loads, or require much higher sampling rates or total measurement availabilit…
Paper models entropy-based impact of soft errors on neural network inference.
problem Estimating impact of radiation-induced faults on neural network inference.
method Entropy-based statistical models for SEU and MBU across layers.
result Accurate models to evaluate error-resiliency of neural network topologies.
Study shows BNN inference accelerators are vulnerable to soft errors, causing significant misclassification.
problem Vulnerability of BNN inference accelerators to soft errors affecting image classification accuracy.
method Fault injection experiments on CIFAR-10 and MNIST datasets to assess impact of soft errors.
result Accuracy of image classifier can drop by up to 76.70% in worst-case scenarios.
Develops a data-driven fault diagnosis framework for time-series data.
problem Fault diagnosis of dynamic systems using imbalanced and unknown fault classes.
method Kullback-Leibler divergence, data-driven fault classification, open-set classification.
result Framework handles imbalanced datasets, class overlapping, and unknown faults.
Neural network residuals isolate and locate unknown faults.
problem Locating unknown faults in industrial systems.
method Neural network-based residuals combining physical insights and machine learning.
result Neural network residuals can isolate and locate unknown faults.
Meta-reinforcement learning improves fault-adaptive control efficiency.
problem Adaptive control under abrupt system faults with strict time constraints.
method Model-agnostic meta learning (MAML) with a fault library of prior policies.
result Improved sample efficiency and quick adaptation to new faults.
Ensemble models struggle with detecting mild faults.
problem Difficulty in detecting Intermediate-Severity faults due to their resemblance to normal conditions.
method Extensive experiments with ensemble models to identify and address common pitfalls.
result Designing more effective ensemble models for IS fault detection and diagnosis.
Proposes KIL-AdaVAE for fault detection and segmentation of unknown fault types.
problem Lack of labeled data for fault types in safety-critical systems.
method Implicit supervision with Deep Variational Autoencoders (VAE).
result Significant performance improvements in fault detection and segmentation.
Residual generation helps diagnose engine faults using neural networks.
problem Fault diagnosis in engines with unknown classes and limited data.
method Grey-box recurrent neural networks incorporating physical insights.
result Improved fault classification and root cause identification.
TS-Fault benchmarks TSF models against structural faults.
problem Evaluating the robustness of time series forecasting models against structured events.
method TS-Fault uses parameterized fault scenarios with controllable difficulty.
result Three findings contradict common leaderboard intuition.
Paper proposes FTT-NAS to create fault-tolerant CNNs for edge devices.
problem Faults in edge devices affect deep learning applications.
method Formalized fault models, implemented FTT-NAS, incorporated FTT.
result Discovered CNNs outperform baseline architectures with fault tolerance.
The safety and resilience of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) are of significant concern, as exemplified by several headline-making accidents. While AV development today involves verification, validation, and testing, end-to-end assessment of AV systems under accidental faults in realistic driving scenarios has been lar…
We introduce a differential geometric framework for describing families of quantum error-correcting codes and for understanding quantum fault tolerance. This work unifies the notion of topological fault tolerance with fault tolerance in other kinds of quantum error-correcting codes. In particular, we use fibre bundles …
Generative model predicts vehicle faults up to 1000 hours in advance.
problem Forecasting vehicle faults for predictive maintenance.
method Generative model trained on US Army data, incorporating real-world factors.
result Highly accurate predictions of time to first fault.
Quantum computing improves fault diagnosis in industrial processes.
problem Fault detection and diagnosis in industrial process systems.
method Integrates quantum computing and deep learning to extract features and diagnose faults.
result Quantum-assisted deep learning achieves high fault detection rates (79.2% and 99.39%).
This paper presents a novel and flexible solution for fault prediction based on data collected from SCADA system. Fault prediction is offered at two different levels based on a data-driven approach: (a) generic fault/status prediction and (b) specific fault class prediction, implemented by means of two different machin…
Mitigates faults in DNNs by clipping activation values, improving their resilience.
problem Fault tolerance of DNNs in safety-critical applications.
method Clipping activation functions to reduce impact of faulty weights.
result Significant improvement in classification accuracy (68.92%) for fault mitigation.
Predicts the age of astronomical transients from real-time data.
problem Improving understanding of transients and their progenitor systems.
method Bayesian probabilistic recurrent neural network.
result Accurately predicts the age of transients with robust uncertainties.
Study designs neural networks for fault localization, state estimation, and optimal PMU placement in power systems.
problem Fault localization, state estimation, and optimal PMU placement in power systems.
method Designs and compares various neural networks for fault localization, builds machine learning schemes for state estimation and parameter estimation, and designs an algorithm for optimal PMU placement.
result Comprehensive comparison of neural networks for fault localization shows that Graphical Convolutional NN and Neural Graph-based ODE perform best.
New Roman pipeline detects astronomical transients.
problem Automated detection of transients from Roman Space Telescope data.
method Machine learning model RuBR for distinguishing real from fake detections.
result Effective real-bogus classification in Roman era.
New method detects bearing faults using multivariate statistical process control.
problem Early detection of bearing faults in rotating machinery.
method Multivariate statistical process control charts applied to Fourier transform features of fixed-time batches.
result Effectiveness in detecting bearing faults across different conditions.
Bayesian Recurrent Neural Networks improve fault detection and identification in manufacturing.
problem Detect and identify faults in chemical processes to ensure optimal operations.
method Bayesian Recurrent Neural Networks (BRNNs) with variational dropout.
result BRNNs provide uncertainty estimates for fault detection and identification.
Early detection of incipient faults is of vital importance to reducing maintenance costs, saving energy, and enhancing occupant comfort in buildings. Popular supervised learning models such as deep neural networks are considered promising due to their ability to directly learn from labeled fault data; however, it is kn…
Few-shot learning improves bearing fault diagnosis with limited data.
problem Challenges in collecting sufficient fault data for robust classifier training.
method Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) for few-shot learning.
result Framework achieves up to 25% higher accuracy than Siamese network.
This paper proposes a novel Gaussian process approach to fault removal in time-series data. Fault removal does not delete the faulty signal data but, instead, massages the fault from the data. We assume that only one fault occurs at any one time and model the signal by two separate non-parametric Gaussian process model…
TensorFI injects faults in TensorFlow programs to assess their reliability.
problem Ensuring reliability of machine learning systems in safety-critical domains.
method TensorFI is a flexible fault injection framework for TensorFlow applications.
result TensorFI evaluates the resilience of 12 ML programs, including autonomous vehicle DNNs.
New PCA method detects faults using occupation kernels.
problem Fault detection in dynamical systems.
method Occupation kernel PCA for irregularly sampled data.
result Validation of reconstruction error approach for fault detection.
The cost of wind energy can be reduced by using SCADA data to detect faults in wind turbine components. Normal behavior models are one of the main fault detection approaches, but there is a lack of consensus in how different input features affect the results. In this work, a new taxonomy based on the causal relations b…
Paper addresses fault-tolerance in distributed machine learning with stochastic gradient descent.
problem Fault-tolerance in distributed stochastic gradient descent (D-SGD) for machine learning.
method Proposes norm-based comparative gradient elimination (CGE) to robustify D-SGD against Byzantine faulty agents.
result CGE guarantees fault-tolerance against a bounded fraction of Byzantine agents under standard stochastic assumptions.
Calculates the transient number of knots using homology groups.
problem Determining the minimal number of arcs needed to trivialize a knot.
method Uses the rank of the first homology group of the double branched cover of the knot.
result Calculates transient numbers for many knots and shows existence of knots with arbitrarily large transient numbers.
The paper investigates how reducing memory supply voltage improves DNN accuracy under bit-cell faults.
problem Reducing energy consumption in deep neural networks by lowering memory supply voltage introduces bit-cell faults.
method The authors explore the robustness of DNN architectures to bit-cell faults and propose a regularizer to mitigate their effects.
result Operating the system in a faulty regime can save energy without significantly reducing accuracy.
The Monte Carlo dropout method has proved to be a scalable and easy-to-use approach for estimating the uncertainty of deep neural network predictions. This approach was recently applied to Fault Detection and Di-agnosis (FDD) applications to improve the classification performance on incipient faults. In this paper, we …
Noncritical soft-faults and model deviations are a challenge for Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) of resident Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). Such systems may have a faster performance degradation due to the permanent exposure to the marine environment, and constant monitoring of component conditions is requi…
Recent trends focusing on Industry 4.0 concept and smart manufacturing arise a data-driven fault diagnosis as key topic in condition-based maintenance. Fault diagnosis is considered as an essential task in rotary machinery since possibility of an early detection and diagnosis of the faulty condition can save both time …
We analyze the adversarial examples problem in terms of a model's fault tolerance with respect to its input. Whereas previous work focuses on arbitrarily strict threat models, i.e., ε-perturbations, we consider arbitrary valid inputs and propose an information-based characteristic for evaluating tolerance to diverse …
Detects anomalies in astronomical time series data.
problem Identifying new and interesting transients in large astronomical surveys.
method Two novel methods: a probabilistic neural network and a Bayesian parametric model.
result Neural networks are less suitable for anomaly detection in time series data compared to parametric models.
Fault-tolerant neural networks inspired by biological error correction codes.
problem Achieving reliable computation with unreliable neurons.
method Using biological error correction codes from grid cells in the mammalian cortex to develop a fault-tolerant neural network.
result Noisy biological neurons operate below a fault-tolerance threshold, suggesting a mechanism for reliable computation in the brain.
A method uses ITD and XGBoost for precise power transformer fault diagnosis.
problem Fault diagnosis of power transformers using DGA data.
method Ranking DGA parameters by skewness, extracting ITD features, and using an XGBoost classifier.
result The method achieves over 95% accuracy in classification.
Fault detection problem for closed loop uncertain dynamical systems, is investigated in this paper, using different deep learning based methods. Traditional classifier based method does not perform well, because of the inherent difficulty of detecting system level faults for closed loop dynamical system. Specifically, …
We adopted an approach based on an LSTM neural network to monitor and detect faults in industrial multivariate time series data. To validate the approach we created a Modelica model of part of a real gasoil plant. By introducing hacks into the logic of the Modelica model, we were able to generate both the roots and cau…
Paper tackles fault classification in time series data with deep neural networks.
problem Fault classification over a future horizon in multidimensional time series data with class imbalances.
method Proposes a multi-label recurrent neural network with a new cost function to address class imbalances.
result The proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art techniques in F1-score, precision, and recall.
Despite the great achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs), the vulnerability of state-of-the-art DNNs raises security concerns of DNNs in many application domains requiring high reliability.We propose the fault sneaking attack on DNNs, where the adversary aims to misclassify certain input images into any target lab…
Thanks to digitization of industrial assets in fleets, the ambitious goal of transferring fault diagnosis models fromone machine to the other has raised great interest. Solving these domain adaptive transfer learning tasks has the potential to save large efforts on manually labeling data and modifying models for new ma…
Paper uses low-dimensional sensor data analysis for better fault detection.
problem Fault detection in critical equipment using multivariate, nonlinear sensor data.
method Exploits t-SNE and KPCA for nonlinear dimension reduction and anomaly detection.
result Low-dimensional representations improve interpretability and edge processing in IoT.
Transient market impact explained via Nash equilibrium in a game.
problem Understanding the transient nature of market impact.
method Analyzing a game between a trader and an arbitrageur, deriving decay kernels.
result Implied transient impact can be derived from trader behavior at Nash equilibrium.
The paper models and analyzes faults in TPU-based neural networks.
problem Faults in TPU matrix multiplication units cause errors in DNN inference.
method Formal model using DTMC, probabilistic model checking, and experiments.
result Classification accuracy is sensitive to fault type, location, and neural network layers.