A self-decision ant colony clustering algorithm for electricity theft detection

Abstract

The load data features of some electricity-theft consumers during the theft period are similar to those of normal consumers, making these electricity-theft consumers outliers from the cluster of electricity-theft. The current classification method, which uses the mean value to determine the cluster centers, is vulnerable to the influence of outliers. Therefore, this paper proposes a self-decision ant colony clustering algorithm for electricity theft detection method that is targeted to self-decision which samples are used to update the cluster centers. The method constructs a dynamic weighting approach to determine the cluster centers based on the idea of Backpropagation, and updates the weights of each sample in the clusters to reflect the different importance of different samples, thus reducing the influence of outlier samples. A new activation function, Odd, is proposed to enhance the ability of the proposed method to solve linearly indistinguishable problems. A self-decision dropout mechanism is proposed which evolves the mechanism of randomly stopping the work of samples in clusters into a targeted and self-decision mechanism that stops the work of redundant or non-active samples as well as improves the contribution of outlier samples with positive effects. In this paper, the proposed method is tested by the electricity consumption data provided by the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and the Smart* Data Set for Sustainability (SDSS) provided by the UMass Trace Repository, and the experimental results show that the proposed method effectively solves the above problems with higher detection accuracy, it has certain advantages over other current studies.