Multi-Appliance Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring via Label-Preserving Aggregate Recomposition and Prediction Consistency
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Title:Multi-Appliance Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring via Label-Preserving Aggregate Recomposition and Prediction Consistency
Abstract:Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) estimates appliance power sequences from aggregate power, but models trained on source households commonly lose accuracy in unseen households. Aggregate power also contains loads from other appliances and measurement error, so predictions may depend on the residual background that co-occurs with source-household targets. Time-aligned submetered measurements and the additive decomposition of aggregate power expose a relation unused by window-wise supervision: an aggregate window can be recomposed by replacing only its residual background while preserving all modeled target-appliance power sequences pointwise. We combine label-preserving aggregate recomposition with prediction consistency. Both windows receive complete power and operating-state supervision. For each appliance, disagreement between the two power predictions is penalized only when both satisfy a fixed reliability criterion and only to the extent that it exceeds a fixed margin. The proposed method is implemented using a multi-appliance architecture with two-stage shared-to-specific mixture-of-experts routing. On REDD, UK-DALE, and REFIT, the proposed method lowers appliance-averaged mean absolute error relative to single-window training from 14.75 to 13.14 W, from 8.88 to 8.51 W, and from 15.83 to 14.55 W. Label-preserving aggregate recomposition and prediction consistency are used only during training, and add no inference-time module or parameter.
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2609.18315 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2609.18315v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.18315
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