Maximum likelihood estimation for leak localization in water distribution networks using in-pipe acoustic sensing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With drinking water resources rapidly depleting with time, water conservation efforts have received special emphasis, especially in arid regions like California. One of the major sources of unused water expenditure is inconspicuous leaks in underground water distribution networks (WDN), making it highly essential to quickly detect and localize them. The leak detection and localization problem has been widely studied for a straight pipeline system, however, estimating the leak location in a pipe network remains largely unexplored. In this study, we measure the acoustic pressure signals inside a pipe network at multiple locations using state-of-the-art hydrophone-enabled devices. To localize the leaks in pipe networks, we propose maximum likelihood estimation, which has previously shown high efficacy in localizing mobile devices in a cellular network. In this approach, the cross-correlation of the filtered signals from different sensor pairs yields multiple time delays corresponding to multiple acoustic paths traversed by the leak noise in the pipe network, which is more difficult to solve compared to a straight pipe system. The leak location is then identified by maximizing a conditional probability distribution function of the distance between the sensor and the leak location.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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