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DeepGrav: Anomalous Gravitational-Wave Detection Through Deep Latent Features
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Traditional matched filtering relies on prior waveform templates, limiting its ability to detect unknown gravitational-wave (GW) signals. To address this model dependency, we propose a model-agnostic deep anomaly detection framework. Methodologically, we design a residual CNN architecture incorporating a latent-space discrepancy preservation mechanism to retain discriminative signal features; additionally, we introduce a physics-informed data augmentation strategy based on arithmetic averaging over multiple samples to mitigate generalization challenges under limited training data. Evaluated on the NSF HDR A3D3 challenge, our method achieved first place: it attained the highest true negative rates (TNRs) among all participants—0.9708 on the validation set and 0.9832 on the challenge set. This work overcomes the template-dependency bottleneck of conventional approaches and significantly enhances high-sensitivity detection of unknown-waveform GW signals in strong non-stationary noise.
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📝 Abstract
This work introduces a novel deep learning-based approach for gravitational wave anomaly detection, aiming to overcome the limitations of traditional matched filtering techniques in identifying unknown waveform gravitational wave signals. We introduce a modified convolutional neural network architecture inspired by ResNet that leverages residual blocks to extract high-dimensional features, effectively capturing subtle differences between background noise and gravitational wave signals. This network architecture learns a high-dimensional projection while preserving discrepancies with the original input, facilitating precise identification of gravitational wave signals. In our experiments, we implement an innovative data augmentation strategy that generates new data by computing the arithmetic mean of multiple signal samples while retaining the key features of the original signals. In the NSF HDR A3D3: Detecting Anomalous Gravitational Wave Signals competition, it is honorable for us (group name: easonyan123) to get to the first place at the end with our model achieving a true negative rate (TNR) of 0.9708 during development/validation phase and 0.9832 on an unseen challenge dataset during final/testing phase, the highest among all competitors. These results demonstrate that our method not only achieves excellent generalization performance but also maintains robust adaptability in addressing the complex uncertainties inherent in gravitational wave anomaly detection.
Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
Detects unknown gravitational wave signals using deep learning.
Overcomes limitations of traditional matched filtering techniques.
Achieves high accuracy in gravitational wave anomaly detection.
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Modified ResNet for gravitational wave detection
High-dimensional feature extraction via residual blocks
Data augmentation using arithmetic mean of signals
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