Machine Operation Anomaly Detection Using Hyperbolic Embeddings

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing anomaly detection systems face challenges in efficiently detecting anomalous operation of machines due to high-dimensional embeddings that exceed computational resources and fail to distinguish between anomalous signals and domain shifts.

Innovation Solution

The use of hyperbolic embeddings generated by a deep neural network, which projects Euclidean embeddings into a hyperbolic space, allowing for more efficient anomaly detection with fewer dimensions, thus reducing computational burden and improving resilience to domain shifts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If high-dimensional embeddings are used for anomaly detection, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases and productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanomaly detection accuracyVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms the embedding space from Euclidean to hyperbolic geometry, changing the dimensional structure in which anomalies are detected. This dimensionality change allows the system to maintain high detection accuracy while reducing the computational burden associated with traditional high-dimensional Euclidean embeddings, as hyperbolic space can represent hierarchical data more efficiently with fewer dimensions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If high-dimensional embeddings are used for anomaly detection, then measurement precision is improved, but productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanomaly detection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

By transitioning to hyperbolic embedding space, the system achieves the same anomaly detection accuracy with reduced dimensional requirements, directly improving processing speed and computational efficiency while maintaining measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Measurement precision

If high-dimensional embeddings are used for anomaly detection, then measurement precision is improved, but loss of energy increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanomaly detection accuracyVSAvoidcomputational energy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The hyperbolic embedding approach reduces the dimensional complexity of the feature space, which directly decreases the computational operations required for anomaly detection, thereby reducing energy consumption while preserving detection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

4Ease of operation

If conventional Euclidean embeddings are used, then ease of operation is maintained, but reliability decreases due to domain shift sensitivity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesimplicity of implementationVSAvoidrobustness to domain shifts
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the geometric parameters of the embedding space from Euclidean to hyperbolic, fundamentally altering how data is represented. This parameter change makes the anomaly detection system more robust to domain shifts while maintaining ease of operation, as the hyperbolic structure naturally accommodates hierarchical variations in data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250077840A1Systems and methods for detecting anomalous machine operations using hyperbolic embeddings
Publication Date: 2025.03.06 MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES INC
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AI summary

A computer-implemented method for detecting anomaly of an operation of a machine based on a signal indicative of the operation of the machine performing a task, comprises collecting hyperbolic embeddings of the signal indicative of the operation of the machine. The hyperbolic embeddings lie in a hyperbolic space. The method further comprises performing the detection of the anomaly of the operation of the machine based on the hyperbolic embeddings to determine an anomaly score and rendering the anomaly score. The machine operation is controlled based on the rendered anomaly score.