• Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.75-93
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• 2022

Machine learning (ML) data-driven meta-model is proposed as a surrogate model to reduce the excessive computational cost of the physics-based model and facilitate the real-time prediction of a nuclear power plant's transient response. To forecast the transient response three machine learning (ML) meta-models based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs); specifically, Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), and a sequence combination of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and LSTM are developed. The chosen accident scenario is a control element assembly withdrawal at power concurrent with the Loss Of Offsite Power (LOOP). The transient response was obtained using the best estimate thermal hydraulics code, MARS-KS, and cross-validated against the Design and control document (DCD). DAKOTA software is loosely coupled with MARS-KS code via a python interface to perform the Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty Quantification (BEPU) analysis and generate a time series database of the system response to train, test and validate the ML meta-models. Key uncertain parameters identified as required by the CASU methodology were propagated using the non-parametric Monte-Carlo (MC) random propagation and Latin Hypercube Sampling technique until a statistically significant database (181 samples) as required by Wilk's fifth order is achieved with 95% probability and 95% confidence level. The three ML RNN models were built and optimized with the help of the Talos tool and demonstrated excellent performance in forecasting the most probable NPP transient response. This research was guided by the Systems Engineering (SE) approach for the systematic and efficient planning and execution of the research.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.313-326
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• 2020

Deep Learning is the most important key to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). There are several distinguishable architectures of neural networks such as MLP, CNN, and RNN. Among them, we try to understand one of the main architectures called Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) that differs from other networks in handling sequential data, including time series and texts. As one of the main tasks recently in Natural Language Processing (NLP), we consider Neural Machine Translation (NMT) using RNNs. We also summarize fundamental structures of the recurrent networks, and some topics of representing natural words to reasonable numeric vectors. We organize topics to understand estimation procedures from representing input source sequences to predict target translated sequences. In addition, we apply multiple translation models with Gated Recurrent Unites (GRUs) in Keras on English-Korean sentences that contain about 26,000 pairwise sequences in total from two different corpora, colloquialism and news. We verified some crucial factors that influence the quality of training. We found that loss decreases with more recurrent dimensions and using bidirectional RNN in the encoder when dealing with short sequences. We also computed BLEU scores which are the main measures of the translation performance, and compared them with the score from Google Translate using the same test sentences. We sum up some difficulties when training a proper translation model as well as dealing with Korean language. The use of Keras in Python for overall tasks from processing raw texts to evaluating the translation model also allows us to include some useful functions and vocabulary libraries as well.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.127-132
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• 2016

Several methods have been proposed to apply artificial neural networks to text compression in the past. However, the networks and targets are both limited to the small size due to hardware capability in the past. Modern GPUs have much better calculation capability than CPUs in an order of magnitude now, even though CPUs have become faster. It becomes possible now to train greater and complex neural networks in a shorter time. This paper proposed a method to transform the distribution of original data with a probabilistic neural predictor. Experiments were performed on a feedforward neural network and a recurrent neural network with gated-recurrent units. The recurrent neural network model outperformed feedforward network in compression rate and prediction accuracy.

• Clean Technology
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.138-146
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• 2022

Electricity has become a factor that dramatically affects the market economy. The day-ahead system marginal price determines electricity prices, and system marginal price forecasting is critical in maintaining energy management systems. There have been several studies using mathematics and machine learning models to forecast the system marginal price, but few studies have been conducted to develop, compare, and analyze various machine learning and deep learning models based on a data-driven framework. Therefore, in this study, different machine learning algorithms (i.e., autoregressive-based models such as the autoregressive integrated moving average model) and deep learning networks (i.e., recurrent neural network-based models such as the long short-term memory and gated recurrent unit model) are considered and integrated evaluation metrics including a forecasting test and information criteria are proposed to discern the optimal forecasting model. A case study of South Korea using long-term time-series system marginal price data from 2016 to 2021 was applied to the developed framework. The results of the study indicate that the autoregressive integrated moving average model (R-squared score: 0.97) and the gated recurrent unit model (R-squared score: 0.94) are appropriate for system marginal price forecasting. This study is expected to contribute significantly to energy management systems and the suggested framework can be explicitly applied for renewable energy networks.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.35-40
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• 2017

기계 독해(Machine reading comprehension)는 주어진 문맥을 이해하고, 질문에 적합한 답을 문맥 내에서 찾는 문제이다. Simple Recurrent Unit (SRU)은 Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)등과 같이 neural gate를 이용하여 Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)에서 발생하는 vanishing gradient problem을 해결하고, gate 입력에서 이전 hidden state를 제거하여 GRU보다 속도를 향상시킨 모델이며, Self-matching Network는 R-Net 모델에서 사용된 것으로, 자기 자신의 RNN sequence에 대하여 어텐션 가중치 (attention weight)를 계산하여 비슷한 의미 문맥 정보를 볼 수 있기 때문에 상호참조해결과 유사한 효과를 볼 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 한국어 기계 독해 데이터 셋을 구축하고, 여러 층의 SRU를 이용한 Encoder에 Self-matching layer를 추가한 $S^2$-Net 모델을 제안한다. 실험 결과, 본 논문에서 제안한 $S^2$-Net 모델이 한국어 기계 독해 데이터 셋에서 EM 65.84%, F1 78.98%의 성능을 보였다.

• 한국어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.35-40
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• 2017

기계 독해(Machine reading comprehension)는 주어진 문맥을 이해하고, 질문에 적합한 답을 문맥 내에서 찾는 문제이다. Simple Recurrent Unit (SRU)은 Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)등과 같이 neural gate를 이용하여 Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)에서 발생하는 vanishing gradient problem을 해결하고, gate 입력에서 이전 hidden state를 제거하여 GRU보다 속도를 향상시킨 모델이며, Self-matching Network는 R-Net 모델에서 사용된 것으로, 자기 자신의 RNN sequence에 대하여 어텐션 가중치 (attention weight)를 계산하여 비슷한 의미 문맥 정보를 볼 수 있기 때문에 상호참조해결과 유사한 효과를 볼 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 한국어 기계 독해 데이터 셋을 구축하고, 여러 층의 SRU를 이용한 Encoder에 Self-matching layer를 추가한 $S^2$-Net 모델을 제안한다. 실험 결과, 본 논문에서 제안한 $S^2$-Net 모델이 한국어 기계 독해 데이터 셋에서 EM 65.84%, F1 78.98%의 성능을 보였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.371-382
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• 2019

Machine reading comprehension is the task of understanding a given context and finding the correct response in that context. A simple recurrent unit (SRU) is a model that solves the vanishing gradient problem in a recurrent neural network (RNN) using a neural gate, such as a gated recurrent unit (GRU) and long short-term memory (LSTM); moreover, it removes the previous hidden state from the input gate to improve the speed compared to GRU and LSTM. A self-matching network, used in R-Net, can have a similar effect to coreference resolution because the self-matching network can obtain context information of a similar meaning by calculating the attention weight for its own RNN sequence. In this paper, we construct a dataset for Korean machine reading comprehension and propose an $S^2-Net$ model that adds a self-matching layer to an encoder RNN using multilayer SRU. The experimental results show that the proposed $S^2-Net$ model has performance of single 68.82% EM and 81.25% F1, and ensemble 70.81% EM, 82.48% F1 in the Korean machine reading comprehension test dataset, and has single 71.30% EM and 80.37% F1 and ensemble 73.29% EM and 81.54% F1 performance in the SQuAD dev dataset.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.600-605
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a sound event detection method using a multi-channel multi-scale neural networks for sound sensing home monitoring for the hearing impaired. In the proposed system, two channels with high signal quality are selected from several wireless microphone sensors in home. The three features (time difference of arrival, pitch range, and outputs obtained by applying multi-scale convolutional neural network to log mel spectrogram) extracted from the sensor signals are applied to a classifier based on a bidirectional gated recurrent neural network to further improve the performance of sound event detection. The detected sound event result is converted into text along with the sensor position of the selected channel and provided to the hearing impaired. The experimental results show that the sound event detection method of the proposed system is superior to the existing method and can effectively deliver sound information to the hearing impaired.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.43 no.6
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• pp.1081-1092
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• 2021

Electroencephalography (EEG) recordings taken during the perception of music tempo contain information that estimates the tempo of a music piece. If information about this tempo stimulus in EEG recordings can be extracted and classified, it can be effectively used to construct a music-based brain-computer interface. This study proposes a novel convolutional recurrent attention model (CRAM) to extract and classify features corresponding to tempo stimuli from EEG recordings of listeners who listened with concentration to the tempo of musics. The proposed CRAM is composed of six modules, namely, network inputs, two-dimensional convolutional bidirectional gated recurrent unit-based sample encoder, sample-level intuitive attention, segment encoder, segment-level intuitive attention, and softmax layer, to effectively model spatiotemporal features and improve the classification accuracy of tempo stimuli. To evaluate the proposed method's performance, we conducted experiments on two benchmark datasets. The proposed method achieves promising results, outperforming recent methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.483-489
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• 2020

This paper proposes acoustic model training using self-attention for low-resource speech recognition. In low-resource speech recognition, it is difficult for acoustic model to distinguish certain phones. For example, plosive /d/ and /t/, plosive /g/ and /k/ and affricate /z/ and /ch/. In acoustic model training, the self-attention generates attention weights from the deep neural network model. In this study, these weights handle the similar pronunciation error for low-resource speech recognition. When the proposed method was applied to Time Delay Neural Network-Output gate Projected Gated Recurrent Unit (TNDD-OPGRU)-based acoustic model, the proposed model showed a 5.98 % word error rate. It shows absolute improvement of 0.74 % compared with TDNN-OPGRU model.