Convergence and stability analysis of recurrent neural networks for rapid structural damage assessment under seismic loads
Feng Zeng, Fujiang Chen, Yongyi Yang, Xin Zhang
TL;DR
This paper introduces a stable and efficient LSTM model for real-time structural damage assessment during earthquakes, even with noisy sensor data.
Contribution
A stability-controlled, lightweight LSTM with gradient overshoot penalization, temporal attention, and multi-scale inference for damage assessment.
Findings
The method achieves loss < 0.01 in 18 epochs with minimal gradient-explosion events under 10 dB noise.
It outperforms standard RNN variants in accuracy, stability, and latency.
On-device tests show < 5 ms delay at 100 Hz, enabling real-time deployment.
Abstract
Non-stationary earthquake responses and sensor noise often make RNN-based damage assessment difficult to optimize and unstable at inference. We develop a stability-controlled, lightweight LSTM that: (i) penalizes gradient overshoot to smooth the update trajectory and prevent exploding/vanishing gradients; (ii) uses a temporal attention gate to emphasize damage-critical segments; and (iii) performs multi-scale sliding-window inference to stabilize long-horizon predictions. Casting the LSTM-with-attention into a discrete-time state-space view, we provide sufficient conditions for non-expansive updates and BIBO stability by bounding the Jacobian spectral norm and constraining attention gains.Empirically, under 10 dB noise our method reaches loss < 0.01 in 18 epochs with only 3 gradient-explosion events, and achieves σ(out)=0.032 with max Δ-rate = 0.085 ± 0.009, outperforming standard…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSeismology and Earthquake Studies · Structural Health Monitoring Techniques · Seismic Performance and Analysis