[HTML][HTML] Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques for energy and power systems: Review, challenges and opportunities

R Machlev, L Heistrene, M Perl, KY Levy, J Belikov… - Energy and AI, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite widespread adoption and outstanding performance, machine learning models are
considered as “black boxes”, since it is very difficult to understand how such models operate …

Survey on explainable AI: From approaches, limitations and applications aspects

W Yang, Y Wei, H Wei, Y Chen, G Huang, X Li… - Human-Centric …, 2023 - Springer
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been used in most if not all domains
and has greatly benefited our lives. While AI can accurately extract critical features and …

Conditional synthetic data generation for robust machine learning applications with limited pandemic data

HP Das, R Tran, J Singh, X Yue, G Tison… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Background: At the onset of a pandemic, such as COVID-19, data with proper
labeling/attributes corresponding to the new disease might be unavailable or sparse …

[HTML][HTML] Deep reinforcement learning with planning guardrails for building energy demand response

D Jang, L Spangher, S Nadarajah, C Spanos - Energy and AI, 2023 - Elsevier
Building energy demand response is projected to be important in decarbonizing energy use.
A demand response program that communicates “artificial” hourly price signals to workers …

Time series-based deep learning model for personal thermal comfort prediction

A Chennapragada, D Periyakoil, HP Das… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Personal thermal comfort models are crucial for the future of human-in-the-loop HVAC
control in energy-efficient buildings. Individual comfort models, compared to average …

Offline-online reinforcement learning for energy pricing in office demand response: lowering energy and data costs

D Jang, L Spangher, T Srivistava, M Khattar… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Our team is proposing to run a full-scale energy demand response experiment in an office
building. Although this is an exciting endeavor which will provide value to the community …

Machine learning for smart and energy-efficient buildings

HP Das, YW Lin, U Agwan, L Spangher… - Environmental Data …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Energy consumption in buildings, both residential and commercial, accounts for
approximately 40% of all energy usage in the United States, and similar numbers are being …

Methodology for interpretable reinforcement learning model for HVAC energy control

O Kotevska, J Munk, K Kurte, Y Du… - … Conference on Big …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches have been used in various application
areas to improve efficiency, optimization, or automation. However, very little is known about …

Improved dequantization and normalization methods for tabular data pre-processing in smart buildings

HP Das, CJ Spanos - Proceedings of the 9th ACM International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Ubiquitous deployment of IoT sensors marks a defining characteristic of smart buildings, for
they constitute the source of data on building operation, diagnosis, and maintenance. For …

Cdcgen: Cross-domain conditional generation via normalizing flows and adversarial training

HP Das, R Tran, J Singh, YW Lin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
How to generate conditional synthetic data for a domain without utilizing information about
its labels/attributes? Our work presents a solution to the above question. We propose a …