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Evolutionary deep nets improve appliance classification for load monitoring

Researchers have developed a method using adaptive sparse evolutionary training and warm-start compression to create compact appliance classifiers for non-intrusive load monitoring. This approach aims to reduce memory and computation constraints in such systems. The study trained 120 models, achieving a notable increase in macro F1 score to 92.40% while decreasing stored weights by 17.36% and active first-layer connections by 23.93% compared to a baseline. However, the authors note that statistical equivalence and performance on unseen houses cannot be claimed due to limitations in the experimental setup. AI

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Evolutionary deep nets improve appliance classification for load monitoring

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Jinsong Wang, Kenneth A. Loparo ·

    Evolutionary Deep Nets for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

    arXiv:2303.03538v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Compact appliance classifiers can support local electricity-load monitoring where memory and computation are constrained. We evaluate adaptive sparse evolutionary training and warm-start compression using synthetic aggregate win…