The Random Hivemind: An Ensemble Deep Learner Application to Solar Energetic Particle Prediction Problem

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Autori principali: O'Keefe, Patrick M., Sadykov, Viacheslav, Kosovichev, Alexander, Kitiashvili, Irina N., Oria, Vincent, Nita, Gelu M., Francis, Fraila, Chong, Chun-Jie, Kosovich, Paul, Ali, Aatiya, Marroquin, Russell D.
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author O'Keefe, Patrick M.
Sadykov, Viacheslav
Kosovichev, Alexander
Kitiashvili, Irina N.
Oria, Vincent
Nita, Gelu M.
Francis, Fraila
Chong, Chun-Jie
Kosovich, Paul
Ali, Aatiya
Marroquin, Russell D.
author_facet O'Keefe, Patrick M.
Sadykov, Viacheslav
Kosovichev, Alexander
Kitiashvili, Irina N.
Oria, Vincent
Nita, Gelu M.
Francis, Fraila
Chong, Chun-Jie
Kosovich, Paul
Ali, Aatiya
Marroquin, Russell D.
contents The application of machine learning and deep learning, including the wide use of non-ensemble, conventional neural networks (CoNN), for predicting various phenomena has become very popular in recent years thanks to the efficiencies and the abilities of these techniques to find relationships in data without human intervention. However, certain CoNN setups may not work on some datasets, especially if the parameters passed to it, including model parameters and hyperparameters, are arguably arbitrary in nature and need to continuously be updated with the need to retrain the model. This concern can be partially alleviated by employing committees of neural networks that are identical in terms of input features and architectures, initialized randomly, and "vote" on the decisions made by the committees as a whole. Yet, it is possible for the committee members to "agree" on identical sets of weights and biases for all nodes and edges. Members of these committees also cannot be expanded to accommodate new features and entire committees must therefore be retrained in order to do so. We propose the Random Hivemind (RH) approach, which helps to alleviate this concern by having multiple neural network estimators make decisions based on random permutations of features and prescribing a method to determine the weight of the decision of each individual estimator. The effectiveness of RH is demonstrated through experimentation in the predictions of hazardous Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events by comparing it to that of using both CoNNs and the aforementioned setup of committees. Our results demonstrate that RH, while having a comparable or better performance than the CoNN and a Committee-based approach, demonstrates a lesser score spread for the individual experiments, and shows promising results with respect to capturing almost every single flare instance leading to SEPs.
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spellingShingle The Random Hivemind: An Ensemble Deep Learner Application to Solar Energetic Particle Prediction Problem
O'Keefe, Patrick M.
Sadykov, Viacheslav
Kosovichev, Alexander
Kitiashvili, Irina N.
Oria, Vincent
Nita, Gelu M.
Francis, Fraila
Chong, Chun-Jie
Kosovich, Paul
Ali, Aatiya
Marroquin, Russell D.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
The application of machine learning and deep learning, including the wide use of non-ensemble, conventional neural networks (CoNN), for predicting various phenomena has become very popular in recent years thanks to the efficiencies and the abilities of these techniques to find relationships in data without human intervention. However, certain CoNN setups may not work on some datasets, especially if the parameters passed to it, including model parameters and hyperparameters, are arguably arbitrary in nature and need to continuously be updated with the need to retrain the model. This concern can be partially alleviated by employing committees of neural networks that are identical in terms of input features and architectures, initialized randomly, and "vote" on the decisions made by the committees as a whole. Yet, it is possible for the committee members to "agree" on identical sets of weights and biases for all nodes and edges. Members of these committees also cannot be expanded to accommodate new features and entire committees must therefore be retrained in order to do so. We propose the Random Hivemind (RH) approach, which helps to alleviate this concern by having multiple neural network estimators make decisions based on random permutations of features and prescribing a method to determine the weight of the decision of each individual estimator. The effectiveness of RH is demonstrated through experimentation in the predictions of hazardous Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events by comparing it to that of using both CoNNs and the aforementioned setup of committees. Our results demonstrate that RH, while having a comparable or better performance than the CoNN and a Committee-based approach, demonstrates a lesser score spread for the individual experiments, and shows promising results with respect to capturing almost every single flare instance leading to SEPs.
title The Random Hivemind: An Ensemble Deep Learner Application to Solar Energetic Particle Prediction Problem
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08092