Smart Sensor Placement: A Correlation-Aware Attribution Framework (CAAF) for Real-world Data Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22517v1
• Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 03:50:16 GMT
• Title: Smart Sensor Placement: A Correlation-Aware Attribution Framework (CAAF) for Real-world Data Modeling
• Authors: Sze Chai Leung, Di Zhou, H. Jane Bae,
• Abstract summary: Optimal sensor placement (OSP) is critical for efficient, accurate monitoring, control, and inference in real-world systems.<n>We propose a machine-learning-based feature attribution framework to identify OSP for the prediction of quantities of interest.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Optimal sensor placement (OSP) is critical for efficient, accurate monitoring, control, and inference in complex real-world systems. We propose a machine-learning-based feature attribution framework to identify OSP for the prediction of quantities of interest. Feature attribution quantifies input contributions to a model's output; however, it struggles with highly correlated input data often encountered in real-world applications. To address this, we propose a Correlation-Aware Attribution Framework (CAAF), which introduces a clustering step before performing feature attribution to reduce redundancy and enhance generalizability. We first illustrate the core principles of the proposed framework through a series of validation cases, then demonstrate its effectiveness in real-world dynamical systems, such as structural health monitoring, airfoil lift prediction, and wall-normal velocity estimation for turbulent channel flow. The results show that the CAAF outperforms alternative approaches that typically struggle due to the presence of nonlinear dynamics, chaotic behavior, and multi-scale interactions, and enables the effective application of feature attribution for identifying OSP in real-world environments.

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