Summary of A Causal Graph-enhanced Gaussian Process Regression For Modeling Engine-out Nox, by Shrenik Zinage et al.
A Causal Graph-Enhanced Gaussian Process Regression for Modeling Engine-out NOx
by Shrenik Zinage, Ilias Bilionis, Peter Meckl
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper develops a probabilistic model to predict engine-out nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from diesel compression ignition engines using Gaussian process regression. The proposed approach incorporates three variants of Gaussian process models, each with a unique kernel structure: standard radial basis function kernel, deep kernel with convolutional neural networks for temporal dependencies, and deep kernel enriched with a causal graph derived via graph convolutional networks to embed physics knowledge. These models are compared against a virtual engine control module (ECM) sensor using quantitative and qualitative metrics. The results show that the model provides an improvement in predictive performance when using an input window and a deep kernel structure, with further enhancement achieved by incorporating a causal graph into the deep kernel. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper creates a new way to predict how much nitrogen oxides (NOx) are coming out of diesel engines. Right now, people use sensors and computer models to estimate this amount, but these methods aren’t very good at capturing uncertainty. The researchers wanted to create a more reliable model by using something called Gaussian process regression. They tried different versions of this approach, adding in features like convolutional neural networks (which are like super-powerful math) and causal graphs (which help the model understand how things work). They compared these models to a virtual sensor that’s used to estimate NOx emissions. The results show that their new method is better at predicting NOx emissions than the old methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Probabilistic model » Regression
