Federated Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring for Smart Homes Utilizing Attention-Based Aggregation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Nowadays, Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) with Federated Learning (FL) framework has become a growing study towards providing a secure energy disaggregation system in smart homes. This study aims at deploying an attention-based aggregation (FedAtt) approach in FL to emphasize agents’ behavioral differences when consuming energy from various appliances. The goal of the proposed technique is to minimize the weighted distance between the parameters of the local model and the global model to better represent each local model’s characteristics. In this paper, we examine two different models for NILM: Short Sequence-to-Point (SS2P) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE). Our goal is to evaluate the effectiveness of FedAtt. The evaluation of the framework was carried out using the UK-DALE and REFIT datasets. The obtained results were then compared against centralized approaches of the models as well as FedAvg. Our findings show that FedAtt generates comparable results to the centralized model and FedAvg while improving the stability of FL at different values of added noise to local parameters.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".