Artificial intelligence(AI),particularly through its datacrunching powerhouse,machine learning(ML),is revolutionizing the way we approach high-throughput data to obtain underlying mechanisms,characterizing,forecasting...Artificial intelligence(AI),particularly through its datacrunching powerhouse,machine learning(ML),is revolutionizing the way we approach high-throughput data to obtain underlying mechanisms,characterizing,forecasting,and making evidencebased decisions in many fundamental science disciplines.However,a pressing question has emerged in the scientific community in recent years:How can we effectively interpret AI algorithms and gauge their contributions to fundamental research?展开更多
Contamination events in water distribution networks(WDNs)can have a huge impact on water supply and public health;increasingly,online water quality sensors are deployed for real-time detection of contamination events....Contamination events in water distribution networks(WDNs)can have a huge impact on water supply and public health;increasingly,online water quality sensors are deployed for real-time detection of contamination events.Machine learning has been used to integrate multivariate time series water quality data at multiple stations for contamination detection;however,accurate extraction of spatial features in water quality signals remains challenging.This study proposed a contamination detection method based on generative adversarial networks(GANs).The GAN model was constructed to simultaneously consider the spatial correlation between sensor locations and temporal information of water quality indicators.The model consists of two networksda generator and a discriminatordthe outputs of which are used to measure the degree of abnormality of water quality data at each time step,referred to as the anomaly score.Bayesian sequential analysis is used to update the likelihood of event occurrence based on the anomaly scores.Alarms are then generated from the fusion of single-site and multi-site models.The proposed method was tested on a WDN for various contamination events with different characteristics.Results showed high detection performance by the proposed GAN method compared with the minimum volume ellipsoid benchmark method for various contamination amplitudes.Additionally,the GAN method achieved high accuracy for various contamination events with different amplitudes and numbers of anomalous water quality parameters,and water quality data from different sensor stations,highlighting its robustness and potential for practical application to real-time contamination events.展开更多
文摘Artificial intelligence(AI),particularly through its datacrunching powerhouse,machine learning(ML),is revolutionizing the way we approach high-throughput data to obtain underlying mechanisms,characterizing,forecasting,and making evidencebased decisions in many fundamental science disciplines.However,a pressing question has emerged in the scientific community in recent years:How can we effectively interpret AI algorithms and gauge their contributions to fundamental research?
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52122901,52079016)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(DUT21GJ203+1 种基金the UK Royal Society(Ref:IF160108 and IEC\NSFC\170249)sponsored by the China Scholarship Council(202106060094).
文摘Contamination events in water distribution networks(WDNs)can have a huge impact on water supply and public health;increasingly,online water quality sensors are deployed for real-time detection of contamination events.Machine learning has been used to integrate multivariate time series water quality data at multiple stations for contamination detection;however,accurate extraction of spatial features in water quality signals remains challenging.This study proposed a contamination detection method based on generative adversarial networks(GANs).The GAN model was constructed to simultaneously consider the spatial correlation between sensor locations and temporal information of water quality indicators.The model consists of two networksda generator and a discriminatordthe outputs of which are used to measure the degree of abnormality of water quality data at each time step,referred to as the anomaly score.Bayesian sequential analysis is used to update the likelihood of event occurrence based on the anomaly scores.Alarms are then generated from the fusion of single-site and multi-site models.The proposed method was tested on a WDN for various contamination events with different characteristics.Results showed high detection performance by the proposed GAN method compared with the minimum volume ellipsoid benchmark method for various contamination amplitudes.Additionally,the GAN method achieved high accuracy for various contamination events with different amplitudes and numbers of anomalous water quality parameters,and water quality data from different sensor stations,highlighting its robustness and potential for practical application to real-time contamination events.
