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Efficient Retraining of ML Models for Process Monitoring

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Efficient Retraining of ML Models for Process Monitoring

English summary

The project investigates adapting machine-learning models to changing manufacturing process conditions while minimizing new data and computational effort. Students review adaptive-training approaches, define a possible validation strategy, compare training strategies, and analyze model quality, training time, computational effort, and possible catastrophic forgetting. Potential applications include tool-wear monitoring and quality estimation in VAD.

Overview

Project details
Efficient Retraining of ML Models for Process Monitoring
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Project goal
Investigate how a model initially trained on a small dataset can be adapted to changing process conditions using as little new data and computational effort as possible.
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Topics and work

Subjects
  • Adaptive training
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    • “Literature review of adaptive training, incremental learning, transfer learning, and retraining” Page 1 ↗
  • Incremental learning
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  • Transfer learning
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  • Retraining
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  • Process monitoring
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Application areas
  • Tool-wear monitoring
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  • Quality estimation in VAD
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Methods and tools
  • Adaptive training
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  • Incremental learning
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  • Transfer learning
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  • Retraining
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Activities
  • Review literature on adaptive training, incremental learning, transfer learning, and retraining
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  • Define a possible validation strategy
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  • Compare training strategies, for example with new materials or a different spindle
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  • Analyze model quality, training time, computational effort, and possible catastrophic forgetting
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Kinds of work
  • Literature research
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Expected outputs
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Requirements

Required skills
  • Interest in machine learning and process monitoring
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  • Initiative
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  • A structured approach to work
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  • Reliability
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  • Commitment
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Recommended skills
  • Programming skills, ideally in Python and PyTorch
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  • Experience with time-series data
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    • “Experience with time-series data is advantageous, but not required” Page 1 ↗
Eligible study fields
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Programming prerequisite
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Practical details

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Learning and support

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