Slow down to go better: A survey on slow feature analysis

P Song, C Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Temporal data contain a wealth of valuable information, playing an essential role in various
machine-learning tasks. Slow feature analysis (SFA), one of the most classic temporal …

Energy efficiency evaluation of complex petrochemical industries

Y Han, H Wu, Z Geng, Q Zhu, X Gu, B Yu - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
As the most effective indicator for energy saving and emission reduction, energy efficiency
evaluation is widely used in complex petrochemical industries. It is nowadays common to …

Interpretable machine learning-assisted advanced exergy optimization for carbon-neutral olefins production

Q Yang, L Zhao, R Bao, Y Fan, J Zhou, D Rong… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
The CO 2-to-light olefins technology represents a significant approach to mitigating the
greenhouse effect and advancing green energy solutions. However, little literature …

Efficient JITL framework for nonlinear industrial chemical engineering soft sensing based on adaptive multi-branch variable scale integrated convolutional neural …

Y Chen, A Li, X Li, D Xue, J Long - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
Just-in-time Learning (JITL) is a soft measurement method commonly used in industrial
processes, which can update local models in real-time to solve the problem of inaccurate …

Variational Bayesian approach to nonstationary and oscillatory slow feature analysis with applications in soft sensing and process monitoring

VK Puli, B Huang - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extraction of underlying patterns from measured variables is central to various data-driven
control applications, such as soft-sensor modeling, statistical process monitoring, and fault …

Two-stage stacking heterogeneous ensemble learning method for gasoline octane number loss prediction

S Cui, H Qiu, S Wang, Y Wang - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Gasoline is the main fuel for small vehicles, and the exhaust emissions from its combustion
have a major impact on the atmospheric environment. In the cumbersome process of …

Neural networks with upper and lower bound constraints and its application on industrial soft sensing modeling with missing values

Y Lu, D Yang, Z Li, X Peng, W Zhong - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft sensors estimate quality indicators that are difficult to measure online so that they are
important in industrial processes. The sensors may malfunction so that some data may be …

Quality-relevant feature extraction method based on teacher-student uncertainty autoencoder and its application to soft sensors

Y Lu, C Jiang, D Yang, X Peng, W Zhong - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Supervised representation learning based on the teacher-student framework can extract
quality-related features for soft sensors, in which the teacher network extracts representation …

Concurrent monitoring strategy for static and dynamic deviations based on selective ensemble learning using slow feature analysis

H Hong, C Jiang, X Peng, W Zhong - Industrial & Engineering …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Slow feature analysis (SFA) has been extensively adopted for process monitoring. Since the
prominent ability of exploring dynamic information of the industrial process, SFA could …

Near-infrared spectroscopy for the concurrent quality prediction and status monitoring of gasoline blending

K He, M Zhong, Z Li, J Liu - Control Engineering Practice, 2020 - Elsevier
Gasoline is one of the major products of oil and petrochemical industry. Blending is the final
step and key to improve the efficiency of gasoline production. As an important property that …