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Outlier classification using autoencoders: Application for fluctuation driven flows in fusion plasmas

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2019-01-16
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Kube, Ralph; Bianchi, Filippo Maria; LaBombard, Brian; Brunner, Dan
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Understanding the statistics of fluctuation driven flows in the boundary layer of magnetically confined plasmas is desired to accurately model the lifetime of the vacuum vessel components. Mirror Langmuir probes (MLPs) are a novel diagnostic that uniquely allow us to sample the plasma parameters on a time scale shorter than the characteristic time scale of their fluctuations. Sudden large-amplitude fluctuations in the plasma degrade the precision and accuracy of the plasma parameters reported by MLPs for cases in which the probe bias range is of insufficient amplitude. While some data samples can readily be classified as valid and invalid, we find that such a classification may be ambiguous for up to 40% of data sampled for the plasma parameters and bias voltages considered in this study. In this contribution, we employ an autoencoder (AE) to learn a low-dimensional representation of valid data samples. By definition, the coordinates in this space are the features that mostly characterize valid data. Ambiguous data samples are classified in this space using standard classifiers for vectorial data. In this way, we avoid defining complicated threshold rules to identify outliers, which require strong assumptions and introduce biases in the analysis. By removing the outliers that are identified in the latent low-dimensional space of the AE, we find that the average conductive and convective radial heat fluxes are between approximately 5% and 15% lower as when removing outliers identified by threshold values. For contributions to the radial heat flux due to triple correlations, the difference is up to 40%.
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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in the Review of Scientific Instruments, 90, 013505, and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5049519.
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American Institute of Physics
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Kube, R., Bianchi, F.M., Brunner, D. & LaBombard, B. (2019). Outlier classification using autoencoders: Application for fluctuation driven flows in fusion plasmas. Review of Scientific Instruments, 90, 013505. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5049519
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