Benchmarking Domain Adaptation for Chemical Processes on the Tennessee Eastman Process
This provides a domain-specific benchmark for evaluating domain adaptation methods in chemical process monitoring, which is incremental as it applies existing techniques to a new dataset.
The authors tackled the problem of domain adaptation for fault diagnosis in chemical processes by creating a new benchmark based on the Tennessee Eastman Process, and found that optimal transport-based techniques outperformed 11 other strategies.
In system monitoring, automatic fault diagnosis seeks to infer the systems' state based on sensor readings, e.g., through machine learning models. In this context, it is of key importance that, based on historical data, these systems are able to generalize to incoming data. In parallel, many factors may induce changes in the data probability distribution, hindering the possibility of such models to generalize. In this sense, domain adaptation is an important framework for adapting models to different probability distributions. In this paper, we propose a new benchmark, based on the Tennessee Eastman Process of Downs and Vogel (1993), for benchmarking domain adaptation methods in the context of chemical processes. Besides describing the process, and its relevance for domain adaptation, we describe a series of data processing steps for reproducing our benchmark. We then test 11 domain adaptation strategies on this novel benchmark, showing that optimal transport-based techniques outperform other strategies.