Regression generative adversarial network based on bounded losses for prediction of free calcium oxide in cement clinker

Abstract

The data imbalance problem caused by multi-time scales phenomenon affects the prediction accuracy, validity and robustness of free calcium oxide (fCaO) content in cement clinker calcination process. Focusing on this problem, we propose an regression generative adversarial network model to predict fCaO content, which contains a generator, discriminator and predictor. Generator and discriminator are designed as bounded loss generative adversarial network to solve mode collapse problem and improve the stability. They learn actual data features in adversarial learning style and produce fake data to enlarge the scale and feature space of actual data to train predictor and finally achieve the prediction of fCaO content, which overcomes the problem of data imbalance. For performance assessment, we visually evaluate the validity of generated data from the perspective of univariate distribution and multivariate joint distribution and invent sequence change tendency consistency index (TCI) to evaluate the robustness of fCaO content prediction. Experiments implemented by cement production data demonstrate that the proposed model has advantages in accuracy, availability and robustness in fCaO content prediction, especially TCI is higher 22.69 percentage points than that of without data augmentation.