Stacked sparse autoencoders that preserve the local and global feature structures for fault detection

Abstract

Although the model based on an autoencoder (AE) exhibits strong feature extraction capability without data labeling, such model is less likely to consider the structural distribution of the original data and the extracted feature is uninterpretable. In this study, a new stacked sparse AE (SSAE) based on the preservation of local and global feature structures is proposed for fault detection. Two additional loss terms are included in the loss function of SSAE to retain the local and global structures of the original data. The preservation of the local feature considers the nearest neighbor of data in space, while that of the global feature considers the variance information of data. The final feature is not only a deep representation of data, but it also retains structural information as much as possible. The proposed model demonstrates remarkable detection performance in case studies of a numerical process and the Tennessee Eastman process.