Investigating the effect of CPT in lateral spreading prediction using Explainable AI

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Hauptverfasser: Hsiao, Cheng-Hsi, Rathje, Ellen, Kumar, Krishna
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author Hsiao, Cheng-Hsi
Rathje, Ellen
Kumar, Krishna
author_facet Hsiao, Cheng-Hsi
Rathje, Ellen
Kumar, Krishna
contents This study proposes an autoencoder approach to extract latent features from cone penetration test profiles to evaluate the potential of incorporating CPT data in an AI model. We employ autoencoders to compress 200 CPT profiles of soil behavior type index (Ic) and normalized cone resistance (qc1Ncs) into ten latent features while preserving critical information. We then utilize the extracted latent features with site parameters to train XGBoost models for predicting lateral spreading occurrences in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Models using the latent CPT features outperformed models with conventional CPT metrics or no CPT data, achieving over 83% accuracy. Explainable AI revealed the most crucial latent feature corresponding to soil behavior between 1-3 meter depths, highlighting this depth range's criticality for liquefaction evaluation. The autoencoder approach provides an automated technique for condensing CPT profiles into informative latent features for machine-learning liquefaction models.
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spellingShingle Investigating the effect of CPT in lateral spreading prediction using Explainable AI
Hsiao, Cheng-Hsi
Rathje, Ellen
Kumar, Krishna
Machine Learning
Geophysics
This study proposes an autoencoder approach to extract latent features from cone penetration test profiles to evaluate the potential of incorporating CPT data in an AI model. We employ autoencoders to compress 200 CPT profiles of soil behavior type index (Ic) and normalized cone resistance (qc1Ncs) into ten latent features while preserving critical information. We then utilize the extracted latent features with site parameters to train XGBoost models for predicting lateral spreading occurrences in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Models using the latent CPT features outperformed models with conventional CPT metrics or no CPT data, achieving over 83% accuracy. Explainable AI revealed the most crucial latent feature corresponding to soil behavior between 1-3 meter depths, highlighting this depth range's criticality for liquefaction evaluation. The autoencoder approach provides an automated technique for condensing CPT profiles into informative latent features for machine-learning liquefaction models.
title Investigating the effect of CPT in lateral spreading prediction using Explainable AI
topic Machine Learning
Geophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13389