Approaches to robust process identification: A review and tutorial of probabilistic methods

H Kodamana, B Huang, R Ranjan, Y Zhao, R Tan… - Journal of Process …, 2018 - Elsevier
Industrial data sets are often contaminated with outliers due to sensor malfunctions, signal
interference, and other disturbances as well as interplay of various other factors. The effect …

On the convergence of black-box variational inference

K Kim, J Oh, K Wu, Y Ma… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We provide the first convergence guarantee for black-box variational inference (BBVI) with
the reparameterization gradient. While preliminary investigations worked on simplified …

A robust Gaussian approximate fixed-interval smoother for nonlinear systems with heavy-tailed process and measurement noises

Y Huang, Y Zhang, N Li… - IEEE Signal Processing …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, a robust Gaussian approximate (GA) fixed-interval smoother for nonlinear
systems with heavy-tailed process and measurement noises is proposed. The process and …

A variational Bayesian approach to robust sensor fusion based on Student-t distribution

H Zhu, H Leung, Z He - Information Sciences, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, a robust sensor fusion method is proposed where the measurement noise is
modeled by a Student-t distribution. The Student-t distribution has a heavy tail compared to …

Bayesian infinite mixture models for wind speed distribution estimation

Y Wang, Y Li, R Zou, D Song - Energy Conversion and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind energy, as a clean, environment-friendly, and inexhaustible renewable energy, has
attracted significant attention, and wind speed distribution plays an important role in its …

A robust particle filtering algorithm with non-Gaussian measurement noise using student-t distribution

D Xu, C Shen, F Shen - IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Gaussian noise assumption may result in a major decline in state estimation accuracy
when the measurements are with the presence of outliers. In this letter, we endow the …

Sparse heteroscedastic multiple spline regression models for wind turbine power curve modeling

Y Wang, Y Li, R Zou, AM Foley, D Al Kez… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An accurate wind turbine power curve (WTPC) plays a vital role in wind power forecasting
and wind turbine condition monitoring. There are two major shortcomings of current WTPC …

Robust consensus nonlinear information filter for distributed sensor networks with measurement outliers

P Dong, Z Jing, H Leung, K Shen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The traditional consensus-based filters are widely used in distributed sensor networks.
However, they suffer from divergence when outliers occur. This paper proposes a robust …

Parameter estimation of heavy-tailed AR model with missing data via stochastic EM

J Liu, S Kumar, DP Palomar - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The autoregressive (AR) model is a widely used model to understand time series data.
Traditionally, the innovation noise of the AR is modeled as Gaussian. However, many time …

Forecasting domestic water consumption from smart meter readings using statistical methods and artificial neural networks

D Walker, E Creaco, L Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia… - Procedia …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents an artificial neural network-based model of domestic water
consumption. The model is based on real-world data collected from smart meters, and …