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Main Authors: Agarwal, Jyoti, Chaudhury, Bhaskar, Navadiya, Jaykumar, Jakhar, Shrichand, Sharma, Manika
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12797
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author Agarwal, Jyoti
Chaudhury, Bhaskar
Navadiya, Jaykumar
Jakhar, Shrichand
Sharma, Manika
author_facet Agarwal, Jyoti
Chaudhury, Bhaskar
Navadiya, Jaykumar
Jakhar, Shrichand
Sharma, Manika
contents Disruptions in tokamak plasmas, marked by sudden thermal and current quenches, pose serious threats to plasma-facing components and system integrity. Accurate early prediction, with sufficient lead time before disruption onset, is vital to enable effective mitigation strategies. This study presents a novel data-driven approach for predicting early current quench, a key precursor to disruptions, using transformer-based deep learning models, applied to ADITYA tokamak diagnostic data. Using multivariate time series data, the transformer model outperforms LSTM baselines across various data distributions and prediction thresholds. The transformer model achieves better recall, maintaining values above 0.9 even up to a prediction threshold of 8-10 ms, significantly outperforming LSTM in this critical metric. The proposed approach remains robust up to an 8 ms lead time, offering practical feasibility for disruption mitigation in ADITYA tokamak. In addition, a comprehensive data diversity analysis and bias sensitivity study underscore the generalization of the model. This work marks the first application of transformer architectures to ADITYA tokamak data for early current-quench prediction, establishing a promising foundation for real time disruption avoidance in short-pulse tokamaks.
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spellingShingle Early Prediction of Current Quench Events in the ADITYA Tokamak using Transformer based Data Driven Models
Agarwal, Jyoti
Chaudhury, Bhaskar
Navadiya, Jaykumar
Jakhar, Shrichand
Sharma, Manika
Plasma Physics
Disruptions in tokamak plasmas, marked by sudden thermal and current quenches, pose serious threats to plasma-facing components and system integrity. Accurate early prediction, with sufficient lead time before disruption onset, is vital to enable effective mitigation strategies. This study presents a novel data-driven approach for predicting early current quench, a key precursor to disruptions, using transformer-based deep learning models, applied to ADITYA tokamak diagnostic data. Using multivariate time series data, the transformer model outperforms LSTM baselines across various data distributions and prediction thresholds. The transformer model achieves better recall, maintaining values above 0.9 even up to a prediction threshold of 8-10 ms, significantly outperforming LSTM in this critical metric. The proposed approach remains robust up to an 8 ms lead time, offering practical feasibility for disruption mitigation in ADITYA tokamak. In addition, a comprehensive data diversity analysis and bias sensitivity study underscore the generalization of the model. This work marks the first application of transformer architectures to ADITYA tokamak data for early current-quench prediction, establishing a promising foundation for real time disruption avoidance in short-pulse tokamaks.
title Early Prediction of Current Quench Events in the ADITYA Tokamak using Transformer based Data Driven Models
topic Plasma Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12797