Week 5—Testing & Tinkering

CHAMP Team Meeting on Week 5
Weekly CHAMPS team meeting after liaison update sessions to discuss model and feature engineering improvements.

The CHAMPS began outlining the Final Design Report this week and with that, they reprioritized the list of necessary tasks and improvements. Deadlines are slowly approaching, but the team is determined to progress every couple of days. The model engineering team recently developed a proposal for a model architecture capable of handling the amount of data the Commander Site Controllers would be transmitting. Although implementation for this advanced model is still underway, the model engineering team also constructed a test pipeline. Meanwhile, the feature engineering team restructured the model preprocessing and added specialized features for two more event types. The feature engineering team then began combating the inefficiency of the current models by using singular value decomposition (SVD) for dimensionality reduction. In the next couple of days, the CHAMPS will be evaluating and fine-tuning the SVD functionality for the upcoming model architecture as well as researching other methods of feature reduction. Stay tuned for how the team progresses as they remain focused on project work.

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