Data-driven models such as neural networks are being applied more and more to safety-critical applications, such as the modeling and control of cyber-physical systems. Despite the flexibility of the approach, there are still concerns about the safety of these models in this context, as well as the need for large amounts of potentially expensive data. In particular, when long-term predictions are needed or frequent measurements are not available, the open-loop stability of the model becomes important. However, it is difficult to make such guarantees for complex black-box models such as neural networks, and prior work has shown that model stability is indeed an issue. In this work, we consider an aluminum extraction process where measurements of the internal state of the reactor are time-consuming and expensive. We model the process using neural networks and investigate the role of including skip connections in the network architecture as well as using l1 regularization to induce sparse connection weights. We demonstrate that these measures can greatly improve both the accuracy and the stability of the models for datasets of varying sizes.

随着数据的不断增加，将现代机器学习方法应用于建模和控制等领域的兴趣爆炸。但是，尽管这种黑盒模型具有灵活性和令人惊讶的准确性，但仍然很难信任它们。结合两种方法的最新努力旨在开发灵活的模型，这些模型仍然可以很好地推广。我们称为混合分析和建模（HAM）的范式。在这项工作中，我们调查了使用数据驱动模型纠正基于错误的物理模型的纠正源术语方法（COSTA）。这使我们能够开发出可以进行准确预测的模型，即使问题的基本物理学尚未得到充分理解。我们将Costa应用于铝电解电池中的Hall-H \'Eroult工艺。我们证明该方法提高了准确性和预测稳定性，从而产生了总体可信赖的模型。