Enhancing anomaly detection accuracy and interpretability in low-quality and class imbalanced data: A comprehensive approach

Bixuan Gao, Xiangyu Kong, Shangze Li, Yi Chen, Xiyuan Zhang, Ziyu Liu and Weijia Lv

Applied Energy, 2024, vol. 353, issue PB, No S0306261923015210

Abstract: With the rapid advancements in smart meters, energy internet, and high-performance computing technologies, deep learning methods are increasingly used for detecting anomalies in building electricity consumption. However, these models grapple with challenges like outliers, missing data, and imbalanced categories. Moreover, these models are often considered as black boxes due to their lack of interpretability. This limitation impedes the practical deployment of deep learning methods. Focusing on these issues, this study presents an anomaly detection method aimed at improving anomaly detection accuracy and interpretability in low-quality and class imbalanced data. Initially, our method established data preprocessing models to handle with outliers and missing data. Subsequently, an unbalance elimination model, named GRU-MACGANS, was designed to augment the minority category data. The SA-CNN-BiGRU-FCN model, incorporating a knowledge transfer strategy, was implemented to identify anomalous behavior. Finally, the results of SA-CNN-BiGRU-FCN model were interpreted based on the contrastive explanations method. Our case study of a low-voltage distribution system demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach. Data preprocessing models and GRU-MACGANS enhance data quality and alleviate category imbalance issues in anomaly detection. The interpretable analysis provides insights into the ability of detection models to identify representative features of different electricity consumption behaviors for effective anomaly detection.

Keywords: Anomaly detection; Building electricity consumption; Deep learning; Low-quality data preprocessing; Class imbalance; Interpretable analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.122157

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