A Data-Driven Self-Supervised LSTM-DeepFM Model for Industrial Soft Sensor

Soft sensor, as an important paradigm for industrial intelligence, is widely used in industrial production to achieve efficient monitoring and prediction of production status including product quality. Data-driven soft sensor methods have attracted attention, which still have challenges because of complex industrial data with diverse characteristics, nonlinear relationships, and massive unlabeled samples. In this article, a data-driven self-supervised long short-term memory–deep factorization machine (LSTM-DeepFM) model is proposed for industrial soft sensor, in which a framework mainly including pretraining and finetuning stages is proposed to explore diverse industrial data characteristics. In the pretraining stage, an LSTM-autoencoder is first unsupervised pretrained. Then, based on two self-supervised mask strategies, LSTM-deep can explore the interdependencies between features as well as the dynamic fluctuation in time series. In the finetuning stage, relying on pretrained representation, the temporal, high-dimensional, and low-dimensional features can be extracted from the LSTM, deep, and FM components, respectively. Finally, experiments on the real-world mining dataset demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state of the art comparing with stacked autoencoder-based models, variational autoencoder-based models, semisupervised parallel DeepFM, etc.