arXiv:2601.20634cs.LG2026-01

首个可扩展的多任务虚拟传感器模型,高效预测多种信号。

A Scalable Multi-Task Model for Virtual Sensors

  • 统一模型同时预测多种虚拟传感器,自动选择相关输入信号。
  • 计算耗时减少415倍,内存降低951倍,精度不降反升。
  • 适合大规模传感器网络部署,无需专家知识,可解释性强。

虚拟传感器通过机器学习替代昂贵的物理传感器,在关键应用中预测目标信号。现有方法需为每个传感器定制模型并手动选取输入,无法利用任务间的协同效应,且缺乏一致基准。尽管新兴的时间序列基础模型在其他领域提供通用预训练方案,但其计算开销大,仅能预测输入信号,难以适配虚拟传感器需求。本文提出首个面向虚拟传感器的多任务模型,可同时预测多种虚拟传感器,充分挖掘任务间协同潜力,同时保持计算高效。模型自动学习每种虚拟传感器的相关输入信号,消除对专家知识的依赖,并提升可解释性。在三个标准基准和一个特定应用数据集(超180亿样本)上的大规模评估表明,该架构将计算时间减少高达415倍,内存需求降低951倍,同时预测质量优于或等同于统一基线。相比单任务独立模型,本方法在相似推理速度下生成更优预测结果,且可扩展至数百个虚拟传感器,参数量几乎不变,实现大规模传感器网络的实用部署。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Virtual sensors replace expensive physical sensors in critical applications through machine learning by predicting target signals from available measurements. Existing virtual sensor approaches require application-specific models with hand-selected inputs for each sensor, cannot leverage task synergies, and lack consistent benchmarks. While emerging time series foundation models offer general-purpose, pretrained solutions in other domains, they are computationally expensive and limited to predicting their input signals, making them incompatible with virtual sensors. We introduce the first multi-task model for virtual sensors addressing both limitations. Our unified model can simultaneously predict diverse virtual sensors exploiting synergies while maintaining computational efficiency. It learns relevant input signals for each virtual sensor, eliminating expert knowledge requirements while adding explainability. In our large-scale evaluation on three standard benchmarks and an application-specific dataset with over 18 billion samples, our architecture reduces computation time by up to 415x and memory requirements by 951x, while maintaining or even improving predictive quality compared to unified baselines. Compared to existing isolated models for a single virtual sensor, our unified approach generates superior predictions at similar inference speed while scaling gracefully to hundreds of virtual sensors with nearly constant parameter count, enabling practical deployment in large-scale sensor networks.

虚拟传感器多任务学习高效模型时间序列

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