Energy flux prediction using an ordinal soft labelling strategy

A. Gómez-Orellana, V. Vargas , P. Gutiérrez, J. Pérez-Aracil, S. Salcedo-Sanz, C. Hervás-Martínez, D. Guijo-Rubio

International work-conference on the interplay between natural and artificial computation, pp. 1-10, 2024

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of short-term energy flux prediction. For this purpose, we propose the use of an ordinal classification neural network model optimised using the triangular regularised categorical cross-entropy loss, termed MLP-T. This model is based on a soft labelling strategy, that replaces the crisp 0/1 labels on the loss computation with soft versions encoding the ordinal information. This soft label encoding leverages the inherent ordering between categories to reduce the cost of ordinal classification errors and improve model generalisation performance. Specifically, the soft labels for each target class are derived from triangular probability distributions. To assess the performance of MLP-T, six datasets built from buoy measurements and reanalysis data have been used. MLP-T has been compared to nominal and ordinal classification techniques in terms of four performance metrics. MLP-T achieved an outstanding performance across all datasets and performance metrics, securing the best mean results. Despite the imbalanced nature of the problem, which makes the ordinal classification task notably difficult, MLP-T achieved good results in all classes across all datasets, including the underrepresented classes. Remarkably, MLP-T was the only approach that correctly classified at least one instance of the minority class in all datasets. Furthermore, MLP-T secured the top rank in all cases, confirming its suitability for the problem addressed.

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BibTex
@inproceedings{gomez-orellana2024energy,
    author = {Antonio Manuel Gómez-Orellana and Víctor Manuel Vargas and Pedro Antonio Gutiérrez and Jorge Pérez-Aracil and Sancho Salcedo-Sanz and César Hervás-Martínez and David Guijo-Rubio},
    title = {Energy flux prediction using an ordinal soft labelling strategy},
    booktitle = {International work-conference on the interplay between natural and artificial computation},
    year = {2024},
    pages = {1--10},
    doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-61137-7_26}
}
APA
Gómez-Orellana, A., Vargas, V., Gutiérrez, P., Pérez-Aracil, J., Salcedo-Sanz, S., Hervás-Martínez, C., Guijo-Rubio, D. (2024). Energy flux prediction using an ordinal soft labelling strategy. In International work-conference on the interplay between natural and artificial computation (pp. 1-10).
CV
A.M. Gómez-Orellana, V.M. Vargas (CA), P.A. Gutiérrez, J. Pérez-Aracil, S. Salcedo-Sanz, C. Hervás-Martínez, D. Guijo-Rubio, (2/7) "Energy flux prediction using an ordinal soft labelling strategy". International work-conference on the interplay between natural and artificial computation, pp. 1-10, 2024.
RIS
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AU  - Vargas, Víctor Manuel
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AU  - Pérez-Aracil, Jorge
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AU  - Hervás-Martínez, César
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