Title
Neural Network Approximation of Graph Fourier Transform for Sparse Sampling of Networked Dynamics
Abstract
AbstractInfrastructure monitoring is critical for safe operations and sustainability. Like many networked systems, water distribution networks (WDNs) exhibit both graph topological structure and complex embedded flow dynamics. The resulting networked cascade dynamics are difficult to predict without extensive sensor data. However, ubiquitous sensor monitoring in underground situations is expensive, and a key challenge is to infer the contaminant dynamics from partial sparse monitoring data. Existing approaches use multi-objective optimization to find the minimum set of essential monitoring points but lack performance guarantees and a theoretical framework. Here, we first develop a novel Graph Fourier Transform (GFT) operator to compress networked contamination dynamics to identify the essential principal data collection points with inference performance guarantees. As such, the GFT approach provides the theoretical sampling bound. We then achieve under-sampling performance by building auto-encoder (AE) neural networks (NN) to generalize the GFT sampling process and under-sample further from the initial sampling set, allowing a very small set of data points to largely reconstruct the contamination dynamics over real and artificial WDNs. Various sources of the contamination are tested, and we obtain high accuracy reconstruction using around 5%–10% of the network nodes for known contaminant sources, and 50%–75% for unknown source cases, which although larger than that of the schemes for contaminant detection and source identifications, is smaller than the current sampling schemes for contaminant data recovery. This general approach of compression and under-sampled recovery via NN can be applied to a wide range of networked infrastructures to enable efficient data sampling for digital twins.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3461838
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Sampling theory, graph fourier transform, neural networks
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1533-5399
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alessio Pagani101.35
Zhuangkun Wei200.34
Ricardo Bezerra de Andrade e Silva310924.56
Weisi Guo400.34