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Edge-Optimized Deep Learning & Pattern Recognition Techniques for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring of Energy Time Series

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Pith's one-line read Pruning before training finds subnetworks of 5% of the parameters that match full NILM model accuracy, a new Greek 10-second dataset fills the Mediterranean data gap, and a graph-based encoder beats sequential baselines on washing machines.

desk verdict Plegma dataset is a solid regional contribution; the GCN result is invalid as NILM due to test-time leakage, and pruning claims rest on in-sample threshold selection. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.06289 v1 pith:VL6L4JU7 submitted 2025-05-07 cs.LG eess.SPstat.ML

Sotirios Athanasoulias This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.LGeess.SPstat.ML
keywords non-intrusiveloadmonitoringenergydisaggregationPlegmadatasetiterativemagnitudepruninggraphneuralnetworksedgedeploymentMediterraneanhouseholdtransformerdecoder
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The reading

This thesis sets out to make non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), inferring which appliance is using what power from a single household meter, practical outside the lab. It argues that real deployment is blocked by two gaps: a data gap, because public datasets come mostly from the USA and UK and miss Mediterranean staples like air conditioners and electric water boilers, and a compute gap, because deep disaggregation models are trained and run on cloud infrastructure, raising cost and privacy concerns. To close the first gap it introduces the Plegma dataset, one year of 10-second readings from 13 Greek households with roughly 218 million measurements. To close the second it claims that iterative magnitude pruning before full training can isolate subnetworks with only 5% of the original parameters that disaggregate as well as the full model, and that a graph-based architecture with a transformer decoder outperforms sequential baselines on multi-state appliances. If these claims hold, appliance-level feedback could run on low-cost devices in the home, including in regions whose consumption patterns current models have never seen.

What carries the argument

The argument runs on two mechanisms. The first is iterative magnitude pruning before training, in the lottery-ticket style: the network is trained for a single epoch, the weights with the smallest L1 norm below a threshold $p_t$ are masked out via a binary mask $\mu \in \{0,1\}^N$ so that $\hat{w} = \mu \odot w$, and the surviving weights are reset to their initial values $w_0$; repeating this for a few rounds $R \ll K$ yields a sparse subnetwork that is then fully trained. This is what lets the scheme claim compute savings in both the training and the inference phase, since the expensive full model is never trained. The second is the entropy-based graph construction for the GCN encoder: aggregate windows are assigned to clusters according to the sample entropy of the target appliance's consumption windows, cluster means seed the node embeddings, Markov-chain transition probabilities between clusters define the directed edge weights, and stacked graph convolutional layers propagate information across nodes before a transformer decoder produces the appliance signal.

What would settle it

Train the GCN-encoder model on UK-DALE houses 1, 3, 4, and 5, then evaluate on house 2 without computing cluster assignments from house 2's appliance-level signal, for instance by reusing the training clusters or clustering the aggregate alone. If the washing-machine F1 collapses from the reported 0.7805 toward the CNN baseline of 0.7261, the claim's test-time dependence on knowing the appliance's entropy is confirmed as load-bearing; if the F1 holds, the graph encoder generalizes without that oracle.

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Core claim

The thesis's central claim is that the two obstacles standing between NILM research and real deployment, missing data for Mediterranean consumption patterns and the high compute cost of deep disaggregation models, are both removable. On the data side, it presents the Plegma dataset: a year-long, 10-second-resolution record of aggregate and appliance-level power from 13 Greek households, roughly 218 million readings, covering air conditioners (18 units) and electric water boilers (12 units) that rarely appear in other public datasets, alongside environmental and sociodemographic metadata. On the compute side, it argues that iterative L1-magnitude pruning performed before full training, with surviving weights reset to their initialization, isolates subnetworks containing 5% of the original parameters whose disaggregation performance matches the full model on the UK-DALE benchmark, and that the same idea in structured and dependency-graph form cuts model size up to 90% when evaluated on Plegma. It further claims that a sequence-to-sequence model with a graph convolutional encoder and a transformer decoder is the first graph-based NILM, recovering multi-state appliances like the washing machine better than CNN, LSTM, and GRU baselines (F1 0.7805 versus 0.7261 for the CNN baseline).

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise, disclosed by the thesis itself, is that the graph encoder knows the target appliance's consumption entropy on the test data; in a genuine deployment, where the appliance signal is exactly what is being inferred, that information is not available and the graph cannot be built.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Training NILM models on the edge becomes plausible: if subnetworks found before training match full models, the resource-heavy full model never has to be trained centrally, and the reported 5% parameter subnetworks match full-model performance on UK-DALE.
  • The Plegma dataset gives researchers a Mediterranean benchmark with 10-second granularity, enabling NILM evaluation on air conditioners and electric water boilers and comparisons of cross-region transfer against UK-DALE and REFIT.
  • Structured and dependency-graph pruning variants, validated on Plegma, reach up to 90% model-size reduction and a 10x compute saving, a level suited to Raspberry-Pi-class devices.
  • For multi-state appliances such as washing machines, graph-based encoding with a transformer decoder beats sequential baselines on activation detection, with F1 of 0.7805 compared with 0.7261 for the CNN baseline.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The mask-reset pruning recipe is demonstrated on one CNN architecture; a direct extension is testing whether the same schedule holds for transformer or GCN backbones, whose per-layer sparsity tolerances likely differ.
  • Plegma's combination of UK-DALE-comparable granularity and Mediterranean appliance mix makes a cross-dataset transfer experiment the natural next test: train on UK-DALE, test on Plegma, and quantify how much air-conditioner and boiler patterns degrade models that never saw them.
  • The disclosed test-time-entropy limitation suggests a concrete fix the thesis does not pursue: learning the cluster assignment from the aggregate signal alone, which would make the graph encoder truly non-intrusive.
  • The questionnaire metadata (occupancy, income, heating type) enables conditioning disaggregation on household context, a direction the dataset opens but the thesis leaves unexplored.
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3 major / 5 minor

Summary. This PhD dissertation combines an interoperable IoT data-collection framework and a new residential energy dataset, the Plegma Dataset from Greece, with a set of deep-learning contributions for non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM). The dataset chapter reports 13 households, 10-second aggregate and appliance-level measurements, roughly 218 million readings, environmental data, and sociodemographic/building metadata, together with explicit cleaning rules (Algorithms 1-2). The modeling chapters claim three advances: a GCN-encoder/transformer-decoder as the first graph-based NILM model, an iterative pre-training pruning scheme ('OPT-NILM') that finds subnetworks matching full-model performance at up to 95% sparsity, and structured dependency-graph pruning evaluated on the Plegma dataset. The pruning chapters report large complexity reductions on UK-DALE and Plegma, while the GCN chapter reports improved washing-machine F1 over CNN/LSTM/GRU baselines.

Significance. If the dataset contribution stands, it is genuinely useful: Plegma is, as claimed, one of the first public 10-second residential datasets from Greece and the Mediterranean, with underrepresented appliances such as air conditioners and electric water boilers, and the chapter is careful about missing data (6.86% NaN, 0.82% issue flags) and about reproducible preprocessing. The pruning chapters address a real deployment bottleneck and the before-training pruning idea is worth pursuing. However, the significance of the modeling claims is currently conditional: the GCN result is not a valid NILM result as evaluated, because it uses test-time appliance entropy, and the pruning 'optimal threshold' is selected on the same test-house curves used for the final reported numbers. These are load-bearing issues, not presentation details.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4.3.3 and §4.1] The GCN encoder constructs graph nodes by assigning aggregate windows to clusters 'based on the entropy metric of the corresponding appliance's consumption windows' (§4.3.3). At inference in the NILM setting defined by Eq. (4.1), only the aggregate x(t) is observed, so the target appliance's entropy is not available; §4.1 concedes that the approach 'could only be used to disaggregate known datasets.' Consequently, the washing-machine comparison in Table 4.2 (F1 0.7805 vs 0.7261 for CNN) is obtained with access to ground-truth appliance information and is not a valid non-intrusive disaggregation result. The claimed advantage over sequential baselines therefore does not support the contribution as stated; a leakage-free variant (e.g., clustering on aggregate-only features or a state estimator trained without test labels) would be needed.
  2. [§5.3.1, Eq. (5.4); §8.4.3] The optimal pruning threshold p̂t is selected by minimizing the distance in Eq. (5.3) over the 'F1 score - MACs' curves, and the experimental setup states that models are trained on houses 1,3,4,5 and tested on house 2. As presented, the F1-MAC curves in Fig. 5.1 are the performance-degradation curves on which the final results in Figs. 5.2-5.3 and Table 6.1 are reported, so p̂t is an in-sample selection rather than an independent model-selection choice. The same issue appears in Chapter 8, where Eq. (8.10) sets Pthr = Popt from the test-house curves in Fig. 8.1. Please use a validation-house split for threshold selection and report test results only for the final threshold, or explicitly label the reported numbers as oracle-selected.
  3. [§5.3.1, Eq. (5.3)] The proposed trade-off metric mixes the F1 score, which lies in [0,1], with raw MAC counts, which in Fig. 5.1 are of order 10^6. As printed, Eq. (5.3) is dist = sqrt((1-F1)^2 + (0-MACs(pt))^2); without a normalization factor for MACs, the distance is dominated by the MAC term, so the 'optimal' threshold is essentially the most aggressive sparsity that keeps F1 above zero. Please specify the scaling (e.g., normalize MACs by the baseline model's MACs) and state the exact form used to produce the reported thresholds; the current formula also appears to contain a typo (missing closing parenthesis).
minor comments (5)
  1. [§3.4, Table 3.6] The table titled 'Monitored appliances in each house' actually reports aggregate consumption, sub-metered consumption, and the percentage of sub-metered consumption; the title appears to be copied from Table 3.3 and should be corrected.
  2. [§4.4.2, Eq. (4.10)] The MRE and MAE definitions are corrupted in the typesetting; as printed, MRE lacks an explicit summation/division structure and the MAE expression is incomplete. Please provide clean equations.
  3. [§1.4 and §3.1] The Plegma dataset is cited as [9] in Chapter 1 but as [10] in Chapter 3; please harmonize the citation numbering throughout the thesis.
  4. [§3.4, Table 3.7] The fridge row reports the number of activations as 'continuous' in a column labeled 'Total number of appliance activations'; please clarify how 'continuous' is defined and whether it is used in downstream analyses.
  5. [§4.4.3, Table 4.1] Table 4.1 reports F1 = 0.00000 for kettle and microwave; the text explains that the model is unsuited to short-duration devices, but reporting precision and recall or activation-level detection metrics would make the failure mode more informative.

Circularity Check

2 steps flagged · score 6.0 of 10

The pruning 'optimal threshold' is selected from the same test performance curves on which final results are reported, and the GCN encoder requires the target appliance's entropy at test time despite NILM being defined from the aggregate alone.

  1. self definitional [Sec. 4.1, Sec. 4.3.3, Eq. (4.1)]
    "The goal of energy disaggregation is to solve the inverse problem and determine the individual consumption ym of appliance m based exclusively on the measurement of the aggregate signal. ... these windows are being assigned to specific clusters based on the entropy metric of the corresponding appliance's consumption windows. ... our approach could only be used to disaggregate known datasets as it provides the limitation of knowing the entropy of the appliance's signal even on the testing data."

    The paper formulates NILM as recovering the appliance signal ym solely from the aggregate signal xagg, but the encoder's graph construction is defined by the entropy of the target appliance's own consumption windows. The clusters that form the graph nodes, the Markov transition weights, and hence the GCN embeddings are all built from the very signal the model is supposed to predict. The reported washing-machine advantage in Table 4.2 is therefore measured with the ground-truth appliance signal available at test time, so the claimed disaggregation result is not derived from the aggregate input alone; the target is built into the encoder by construction.

  2. fitted input called prediction [Sec. 5.3.1 Eqs. (5.3)-(5.4); results in Sec. 5.3.2]
    "First the Euclidean distance for all pt is calculated given an 'F1 score - MACs' diagram as: dist(F1, MACs(pt)) = sqrt((1 - F1)^2 + (0 - MACs(pt))^2) ... p_hat_t = arg min_{pt in (0,0.95)} dist(F1, MACs(pt)). ... The pruning thresholds were set equal to the p_hat_t of the proposed approach: 95% for the kettle, 80% for the dishwasher, 85% for the fridge and 60% for the washing machine."

    The 'optimal pruning threshold' is chosen by minimizing a distance to perfect F1, using F1 values computed from the same test-house performance curves on which the final results are reported. The headline compression claims (95% parameter reduction with negligible degradation) are thus in-sample selections: the threshold is fitted to the test F1 curve and the subsequently reported F1 at that threshold is the same quantity used in the selection rule. The comparison between pre-training and after-training pruning is also evaluated at per-method in-sample-optimal thresholds, so the claimed performance advantage is partly an artifact of each method being scored at its own test-set-selected operating point rather than at an independently fixed sparsity level.

full rationale

The dataset chapter is self-contained against external benchmarks and is not circular: the Plegma dataset is a new measurement campaign with documented hardware, pre-processing, and FAIR hosting, and its uniqueness claims are falsifiable external facts. The GCN chapter, however, contains a load-bearing self-definitional step: the graph encoder needs the entropy of the target appliance's consumption windows even on test data, which contradicts the paper's own Eq. (4.1) definition of disaggregation as recovering ym from the aggregate alone. The paper explicitly admits this limitation, yet the reported superiority over CNN/LSTM/GRU is presented as a NILM result. The pruning chapters select the pruning threshold via Eq. (5.4) from F1 values on the same test curves later used as the reported result; this is a fitted selection criterion renamed as an 'optimal pruning threshold' and then re-reported as independent performance. Chapters 7 and 8 reuse the same Eq. (5.4) selection mechanism, so the issue propagates. I did not count the author's self-citations as circular: they are normal bibliographic markers, and no machine-checked or externally verified 'uniqueness theorem' is invoked to forbid alternatives. The non-finding portions (dataset, hardware architecture) remain independent evidence. Overall, the central predictive claims for the GCN architecture and for the optimal-threshold pruning results reduce in part to their own inputs, giving a partial circularity score of 6.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The pruning chapters carry two fitted quantities (the per-appliance thresholds and the metric's ideal-point scaling) and import the lottery ticket hypothesis as a domain assumption. The GCN chapter contributes an ad hoc test-time information assumption. No new physical entities, forces, particles, or conserved quantities are introduced; the graph structure and binary masks are methodological constructs, not entities with independent falsifiable handles.

free parameters (4)
  • Per-appliance pruning threshold p̂t (Ch. 5), p̂opt (Ch. 6), ŝ (Ch. 7-8) = 95% (kettle), 80% (dishwasher), 85% (fridge), 60% (washing machine); per-layer ratios in Ch. 7-8 not itemized
    Chosen by minimizing Eq. 5.3-5.4, a Euclidean distance to the ideal point (F1=1, MACs=0) computed on the test-house F1-versus-MACs curves, so the threshold is fitted to the evaluation data.
  • Number of graph clusters (operational states) N for the GCN encoder = not reported
    Sec. 4.3.3 assigns windows to clusters via Lloyd's algorithm but never states the cluster count, which fixes the graph's node set and therefore the learned embeddings; the central Chapter 4 result is not reproducible from the text.
  • Ideal-point scale in the trade-off metric (Eq. 5.3) = (F1=1, MACs=0) with unscaled axes
    Because MACs values are of order 10^6 and F1 is in [0,1], the term (0-MACs)^2 dominates (1-F1)^2, making the argmin in Eq. 5.4 collapse to the maximum pruning level; the normalization, not the data, picks the threshold.
  • GCN layers and transformer layers (Ch. 4) = 8 GCN layers, 2 transformer layers
    Architecture hyperparameters in Sec. 4.3.3 and 4.3.4 chosen without a stated tuning protocol or sensitivity analysis.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Aggregate power is the sum of appliance contributions plus noise (Eq. 4.1, Eq. 5.1, Eq. 6.1)
    Standard NILM additive model adopted without derivation; it is the invertibility premise on which disaggregation rests.
  • domain assumption Randomly initialized NILM networks contain sparse subnetworks that reach full-network accuracy when trained (lottery ticket hypothesis)
    Ch. 5.2.3 states this as 'the foundational hypothesis underpinning our approach', imported from the cited work [60]; the thesis's own experiments are the only NILM-specific evidence provided.
  • ad hoc to paper Appliance operational-state entropy is available at test time for the disaggregated appliance
    Sec. 4.3.3 clusters aggregate windows using the target appliance's own consumption windows, and Sec. 4.1 admits this limits the method to known datasets; this assumption is what makes the GCN encoder constructible.
  • standard math Markov property: the next appliance state depends only on the current state
    Used in Sec. 4.3.3 to build the transition matrix P from cluster sequences; a standard stochastic modeling assumption.
  • standard math GCN message passing (Kipf-Welling layers, Eq. 4.6-4.7) produces representations useful for regression decoding
    Adopted architectural machinery with no proof of sufficiency, consistent with common practice in the graph learning literature.

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The growing global energy demand and the urgent need for sustainability call for innovative ways to boost energy efficiency. While advanced energy-saving systems exist, they often fall short without user engagement. Providing feedback on energy consumption behavior is key to promoting sustainable practices. Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) offers a promising solution by disaggregating total household energy usage, recorded by a central smart meter, into appliance-level data. This empowers users to optimize consumption. Advances in AI, IoT, and smart meter adoption have further enhanced NILM's potential. Despite this promise, real-world NILM deployment faces major challenges. First, existing datasets mainly represent regions like the USA and UK, leaving places like the Mediterranean underrepresented. This limits understanding of regional consumption patterns, such as heavy use of air conditioners and electric water heaters. Second, deep learning models used in NILM require high computational power, often relying on cloud services. This increases costs, raises privacy concerns, and limits scalability, especially for households with poor connectivity. This thesis tackles these issues with key contributions. It presents an interoperable data collection framework and introduces the Plegma Dataset, focused on underrepresented Mediterranean energy patterns. It also explores advanced deep neural networks and model compression techniques for efficient edge deployment. By bridging theoretical advances with practical needs, this work aims to make NILM scalable, efficient, and adaptable for global energy sustainability.

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Figure 3. Overview of synchronization issue. Each line represents a sensor, P_agg being [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p052_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Plegma Data Availability [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p057_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. The power usage for House 1 on the 22nd of August 2023. The space between [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p058_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: This visualization showcases environmental data collected from House 3 across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p060_3.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Diagrams comparing computational complexity (MACs) for different pruning [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p079_5.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Prediction consumption diagrams using the proposed, the after [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p080_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The comparison of the conventional pruning process (upper) and the proposed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p083_6.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Overview of the OPT [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p090_6.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Example of the proposed trade [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p092_6.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The proposed CNN seq2seq architecture [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p095_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of computational complexity (sparsity %) for different pruning [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p109_7.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Prediction consumption using the optimized structured pruning vs. the unstruc [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p110_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Diagrams compare computational complexity for different pruning thresholds [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p120_8.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison of predicted consumption diagrams using [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p121_8.png]

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