Transfer Learning for Power Outage Detection Task with Limited Training Data

arXiv:2305.17817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early detection of power outages is crucial for maintaining a reliable power distribution system. This research investigates the use of transfer learning and language models in detecting outages with limited labeled data. By leveraging pretraining and transfer learning, models can generalize to unseen classes. Using a curated balanced dataset of social media tweets related to power outages, we conducted experiments using zero-shot and few-shot learning. Our hypothesis is that Language Models pretrained with limited data could achieve high performance in outage detection tasks over baseline models. Results show that while classical models outperform zero-shot Language Models, few-shot fine-tuning significantly improves their performance. For example, with 10% fine-tuning, BERT achieves 81.3% accuracy (+15.3%), and GPT achieves 74.5% accuracy (+8.5%). This has practical implications for analyzing and localizing outages in scenarios with limited data availability. Our evaluation provides insights into the potential of few-shot fine-tuning with Language Models for power outage detection, highlighting their strengths and limitations. This research contributes to the knowledge base of leveraging advanced natural language processing techniques for managing critical infrastructure.

Abstract:Early detection of power outages is crucial for maintaining a reliable power distribution system. This research investigates the use of transfer learning and language models in detecting outages with limited labeled data. By leveraging pretraining and transfer learning, models can generalize to unseen classes. Using a curated balanced dataset of social media tweets related to power outages, we conducted experiments using zero-shot and few-shot learning. Our hypothesis is that Language Models pretrained with limited data could achieve high performance in outage detection tasks over baseline models. Results show that while classical models outperform zero-shot Language Models, few-shot fine-tuning significantly improves their performance. For example, with 10% fine-tuning, BERT achieves 81.3% accuracy (+15.3%), and GPT achieves 74.5% accuracy (+8.5%). This has practical implications for analyzing and localizing outages in scenarios with limited data availability. Our evaluation provides insights into the potential of few-shot fine-tuning with Language Models for power outage detection, highlighting their strengths and limitations. This research contributes to the knowledge base of leveraging advanced natural language processing techniques for managing critical infrastructure.

Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Applications (stat.AP)

arXiv:2305.17817 [cs.CL]

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