Plasma State Monitoring and Disruption Characterization using Multimodal VAEs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17710v1
• Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:14:16 GMT
• Title: Plasma State Monitoring and Disruption Characterization using Multimodal VAEs
• Authors: Yoeri Poels, Alessandro Pau, Christian Donner, Giulio Romanelli, Olivier Sauter, Cristina Venturini, Vlado Menkovski, the TCV team, the WPTE team,
• Abstract summary: We leverage data-driven methods to find an interpretable representation of the plasma state for disruption characterization.<n>We build upon the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework, and extend it for continuous projections of plasma trajectories.<n>We evaluate the method with respect to (1) the identified disruption risk and its correlation with other plasma properties; (2) the ability to distinguish different types of disruptions; and (3) downstream analyses.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: When a plasma disrupts in a tokamak, significant heat and electromagnetic loads are deposited onto the surrounding device components. These forces scale with plasma current and magnetic field strength, making disruptions one of the key challenges for future devices. Unfortunately, disruptions are not fully understood, with many different underlying causes that are difficult to anticipate. Data-driven models have shown success in predicting them, but they only provide limited interpretability. On the other hand, large-scale statistical analyses have been a great asset to understanding disruptive patterns. In this paper, we leverage data-driven methods to find an interpretable representation of the plasma state for disruption characterization. Specifically, we use a latent variable model to represent diagnostic measurements as a low-dimensional, latent representation. We build upon the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework, and extend it for (1) continuous projections of plasma trajectories; (2) a multimodal structure to separate operating regimes; and (3) separation with respect to disruptive regimes. Subsequently, we can identify continuous indicators for the disruption rate and the disruptivity based on statistical properties of measurement data. The proposed method is demonstrated using a dataset of approximately 1600 TCV discharges, selecting for flat-top disruptions or regular terminations. We evaluate the method with respect to (1) the identified disruption risk and its correlation with other plasma properties; (2) the ability to distinguish different types of disruptions; and (3) downstream analyses. For the latter, we conduct a demonstrative study on identifying parameters connected to disruptions using counterfactual-like analysis. Overall, the method can adequately identify distinct operating regimes characterized by varying proximity to disruptions in an interpretable manner.

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