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AI-enhanced iterative solvers for accelerating the solution of large scale parametrized systems

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recent advances in the field of machine learning open a new era in high performance computing. Applications of machine learning algorithms for the development of accurate and cost-efficient surrogates of complex problems have already attracted major attention from scientists. Despite their powerful approximation capabilities, however, surrogates cannot produce the `exact' solution to the problem. To address this issue, this paper exploits up-to-date ML tools and delivers customized iterative solvers of linear equation systems, capable of solving large-scale parametrized problems at any desired level of accuracy. Specifically, the proposed approach consists of the following two steps. At first, a reduced set of model evaluations is performed and the corresponding solutions are used to establish an approximate mapping from the problem's parametric space to its solution space using deep feedforward neural networks and convolutional autoencoders. This mapping serves a means to obtain very accurate initial predictions of the system's response to new query points at negligible computational cost. Subsequently, an iterative solver inspired by the Algebraic Multigrid method in combination with Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, termed POD-2G, is developed that successively refines the initial predictions towards the exact system solutions. The application of POD-2G as a standalone solver or as preconditioner in the context of preconditioned conjugate gradient methods is demonstrated on several numerical examples of large scale systems, with the results indicating its superiority over conventional iterative solution schemes.


Multi-objective optimization of actuation waveform for high-precision drop-on-demand inkjet printing

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Drop-on-demand (DOD) inkjet printing has been considered as one of promising technologies for the fabrication of advanced functional materials. For a DOD printer, high-precision dispensing techniques for achieving satellite-free smaller droplets, have long been desired for patterning thin-film structures. The present study considers the inlet velocity of a liquid chamber located upstream of a dispensing nozzle as a control variable and aims to optimize its waveform using a sample-efficient Bayesian optimization algorithm. Firstly, the droplet dispensing dynamics are numerically reproduced by using an open-source OpenFOAM solver, interFoam, and the results are passed on to another code based on pyFoam. Then, the parameters characterizing the actuation waveform driving a DOD printer are determined by the Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithm so as to maximize a prescribed multi-objective function expressed as the sum of two factors, i.e., the size of a primary droplet and the presence of satellite droplets. The results show that the present BO algorithm can successfully find high-precision dispensing waveforms within 150 simulations. Specifically, satellite droplets can be effectively eliminated and the droplet diameter can be significantly reduced to 24.9% of the nozzle diameter by applying the optimal waveform.


A Consistency Constraint-Based Approach to Coupled State Constraints in Distributed Model Predictive Control

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In this paper, we present a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme for dynamically decoupled systems which are subject to state constraints, coupling state constraints and input constraints. In the proposed control scheme, neighbor-to-neighbor communication suffices and all subsystems solve their local optimization problem in parallel. The approach relies on consistency constraints which define a neighborhood around each subsystem's reference trajectory where the state of the respective subsystem is guaranteed to stay in. Reference trajectories and consistency constraints are known to neighboring subsystems. Contrary to other relevant approaches, the reference trajectories are improved iteratively. Besides, the presented approach allows the formulation of convex optimization problems even in the presence of non-convex state constraints. The algorithm's effectiveness is demonstrated with a simulation.


On a Built-in Conflict between Deep Learning and Systematic Generalization

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In this paper, we hypothesize that internal function sharing is one of the reasons to weaken o.o.d. or systematic generalization in deep learning for classification tasks. Under equivalent prediction, a model partitions an input space into multiple parts separated by boundaries. The function sharing prefers to reuse boundaries, leading to fewer parts for new outputs, which conflicts with systematic generalization. We show such phenomena in standard deep learning models, such as fully connected, convolutional, residual networks, LSTMs, and (Vision) Transformers. We hope this study provides novel insights into systematic generalization and forms a basis for new research directions. Source codes are available at https://github.com/


A Survey of Open Source Automation Tools for Data Science Predictions

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We present an expository overview of technical and cultural challenges to the development and adoption of automation at various stages in the data science prediction lifecycle, restricting focus to supervised learning with structured datasets. In addition, we review popular open source Python tools implementing common solution patterns for the automation challenges and highlight gaps where we feel progress still demands to be made.


Prediction of the energy and exergy performance of F135 PW100 turbofan engine via deep learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In present study, the effects of flight mach number, flight altitude, fuel types, and intake air temperature on thrust specific fuel consumption (TSFC), thrust, intake air mass flow rate, thermal and propulsive efficiency, as well as the exergetic efficiency and the exergy destruction rate in F135 PW100 engine are investigated. Based on the results obtained in the first phase, to model the thermodynamic performance of the aforementioned engine cycle, flight mach number and flight altitude are considered to be 2.5 and 30,000 m, respectively, due to the operational advantage of flying at ultrasonic altitude, and higher trust of hydrogen fuel. Accordingly, in the second phase, taking into account the mentioned flight conditions, an intelligent model has been obtained to predict output parameters (i.e. In the attained deep neural model, the HPC pressure ratio, fan pressure ratio, turbine Inlet temperature, intake air temperature, and bypass ratio are considered as input parameters. The provided datasets are randomly divided into two separate sets: the first set contains 6079 samples for model training and the second set contains 1520 samples for testing. Particularity, the Adam optimization algorithm, the cost function of the MSE, and the active function of Relu are used to train the network. The results show that the error percentage of the deep neural model is equal to 5.02%, 1.43%, and 2.92% in order to predict thrust, TSFC, and Overall exergetic efficiency, respectively, which indicates the success of the attained model in estimating the output parameters of the present problem. Introduction Gas turbines (GT) are one of the powers generation cycle types that is an internal combustion engine (ICE) of a rotary machine. These engines operate on the Brayton cycle (BC). Classically, the GTs have extensive applications in various industries ranging from oil, gas, and petrochemicals to power generation plants and various propulsion systems like airplane propulsion structures. The simplest GT engine configuration is Turbojet (TJ). In the TJs, the air is first entered into the compressor, then it enters the combustion chamber, after that, it increases its temperature and pressure, subsequently, it enters the turbine and it decreases its temperature and pressure.


Seamless Tracking of Group Targets and Ungrouped Targets Using Belief Propagation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper considers the problem of tracking a large-scale number of group targets. Usually, multi-target in most tracking scenarios are assumed to have independent motion and are well-separated. However, for group target tracking (GTT), the targets within groups are closely spaced and move in a coordinated manner, the groups can split or merge, and the numbers of targets in groups may be large, which lead to more challenging data association, filtering and computation problems. Within the belief propagation (BP) framework, we propose a scalable group target belief propagation (GTBP) method by jointly inferring target existence variables, group structure, data association and target states. The method can efficiently calculate the approximations of the marginal posterior distributions of these variables by performing belief propagation on the devised factor graph. As a consequence, GTBP is capable of capturing the changes in group structure, e.g., group splitting and merging. Furthermore, we model the evolution of targets as the co-action of the group or single-target motions specified by the possible group structures and corresponding probabilities. This flexible modeling enables seamless and simultaneous tracking of multiple group targets and ungrouped targets. Particularly, GTBP has excellent scalability and low computational complexity. It not only maintains the same scalability as BP, i.e., scaling linearly in the number of sensor measurements and quadratically in the number of targets, but also only scales linearly in the number of preserved group partitions. Finally, numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and scalability of the proposed GTBP method.


Estimating building energy efficiency from street view imagery, aerial imagery, and land surface temperature data

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Current methods to determine the energy efficiency of buildings require on-site visits of certified energy auditors which makes the process slow, costly, and geographically incomplete. To accelerate the identification of promising retrofit targets on a large scale, we propose to estimate building energy efficiency from widely available and remotely sensed data sources only, namely street view, aerial view, footprint, and satellite-borne land surface temperature (LST) data. After collecting data for almost 40,000 buildings in the United Kingdom, we combine these data sources by training multiple end-to-end deep learning models with the objective to classify buildings as energy efficient (EU rating A-D) or inefficient (EU rating E-G). After evaluating the trained models quantitatively as well as qualitatively, we extend our analysis by studying the predictive power of each data source in an ablation study. We find that the end-to-end deep learning model trained on all four data sources achieves a macro-averaged F1 score of 64.64% and outperforms the k-NN and SVM-based baseline models by 14.13 to 12.02 percentage points, respectively. Thus, this work shows the potential and complementary nature of remotely sensed data in predicting energy efficiency and opens up new opportunities for future work to integrate additional data sources.


Towards Energy-Aware Federated Learning on Battery-Powered Clients

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Federated learning (FL) is a newly emerged branch of AI that facilitates edge devices to collaboratively train a global machine learning model without centralizing data and with privacy by default. However, despite the remarkable advancement, this paradigm comes with various challenges. Specifically, in large-scale deployments, client heterogeneity is the norm which impacts training quality such as accuracy, fairness, and time. Moreover, energy consumption across these battery-constrained devices is largely unexplored and a limitation for wide-adoption of FL. To address this issue, we develop EAFL, an energy-aware FL selection method that considers energy consumption to maximize the participation of heterogeneous target devices. EAFL is a power-aware training algorithm that cherry-picks clients with higher battery levels in conjunction with its ability to maximize the system efficiency. Our design jointly minimizes the time-to-accuracy and maximizes the remaining on-device battery levels. EAFLimproves the testing model accuracy by up to 85\% and decreases the drop-out of clients by up to 2.45$\times$.


Nonparametric adaptive control and prediction: theory and randomized algorithms

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

A key assumption in the theory of nonlinear adaptive control is that the uncertainty of the system can be expressed in the linear span of a set of known basis functions. While this assumption leads to efficient algorithms, it limits applications to very specific classes of systems. We introduce a novel nonparametric adaptive algorithm that estimates an infinite-dimensional density over parameters online to learn an unknown dynamics in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Surprisingly, the resulting control input admits an analytical expression that enables its implementation despite its underlying infinite-dimensional structure. While this adaptive input is rich and expressive - subsuming, for example, traditional linear parameterizations - its computational complexity grows linearly with time, making it comparatively more expensive than its parametric counterparts. Leveraging the theory of random Fourier features, we provide an efficient randomized implementation that recovers the complexity of classical parametric methods while provably retaining the expressivity of the nonparametric input. In particular, our explicit bounds only depend polynomially on the underlying parameters of the system, allowing our proposed algorithms to efficiently scale to high-dimensional systems. As an illustration of the method, we demonstrate the ability of the randomized approximation algorithm to learn a predictive model of a 60-dimensional system consisting of ten point masses interacting through Newtonian gravitation. By reinterpretation as a gradient flow on a specific loss, we conclude with a natural extension of our kernel-based adaptive algorithms to deep neural networks. We show empirically that the extra expressivity afforded by deep representations can lead to improved performance at the expense of closed-loop stability that is rigorously guaranteed and consistently observed for kernel machines.