17–22 May 2026
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Europe/Zurich timezone

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Channel Attribution with Variational Autoencoders at the Advanced Light Source

WEP6306
20 May 2026, 16:00
2h
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C.I.D

Deauville, France
Poster Presentation MC6.D13: Instrumentation: Artificial Intelligence Poster session

Speaker

Dr Gianluca Martino (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Description

We present an unsupervised pipeline that learns a compact representation of beam-on machine state at the ALS, detects anomalies preceding beam-loss events, and highlights the responsible channels for operator diagnosis. Archiver data are resampled to a uniform time grid, filtered to beam-on intervals using stored current, and pruned by variability and principal-component analysis. A variational autoencoder with residual encoder-decoder stacks is trained on the standardised PV vectors; the global anomaly score and the per-PV attribution are both derived from per-PV reconstruction z-scores, so the score is an exact decomposition of the channel ranking.
We apply the pipeline to 34 beam-loss events from the 2025 ALS user run; in several cases it surfaces early-stage anomalies in the PV subsystems that subsequently led to the beam dump, indicating a framework can act as an early-warning aid for operators.

Funding Agency

This work was supported by the Director of the Office of Science of the U.S.Department of Energy under Contract No. DEAC02-05CH11231.

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Authors

Antonin Sulc (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Dr Gianluca Martino (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Mr Hiroshi Nishimura (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Simon Leemann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Thorsten Hellert (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

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