A Ship Underwater Radiated Noise Prediction Method Based on Semi-Supervised Ensemble Learning

Accurate prediction of ship underwater radiated noise (URN) during navigation is critical for evaluating acoustic stealth performance and analyzing detection risks. However, the labeled data available for the training of URN prediction model is limited. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can improve the...

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Main Authors: Xin Huang, Rongwu Xu, Ruibiao Li
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-07-01
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description Accurate prediction of ship underwater radiated noise (URN) during navigation is critical for evaluating acoustic stealth performance and analyzing detection risks. However, the labeled data available for the training of URN prediction model is limited. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can improve the model performance by using unlabeled data in the case of a lack of labeled data. Therefore, this paper proposes an SSL method for URN prediction. First, an anti-perturbation regularization is constructed using unlabeled data to optimize the objective function of EL, which is then used in the Genetic algorithm to adaptively optimize base learner weights, to enhance pseudo-label quality. Second, a semi-supervised ensemble (ESS) framework integrating dynamic pseudo-label screening and uncertainty bias correction (UBC) is established, which can dynamically select pseudo-labels based on local prediction performance improvement and reduce the influence of pseudo-labels’ uncertainty on the model. Experimental results of the cabin model and sea trials of the ship demonstrate that the proposed method reduces prediction errors by up to 65.5% and 62.1% compared to baseline supervised and semi-supervised regression models, significantly improving prediction accuracy.
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spelling doaj-art-db4c57b65e4d4083a3e47cb6490afc662025-07-25T13:27:02ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122025-07-01137130310.3390/jmse13071303A Ship Underwater Radiated Noise Prediction Method Based on Semi-Supervised Ensemble LearningXin Huang0Rongwu Xu1Ruibiao Li2Laboratory of Vibration and Noise, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, ChinaLaboratory of Vibration and Noise, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, ChinaLaboratory of Vibration and Noise, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, ChinaAccurate prediction of ship underwater radiated noise (URN) during navigation is critical for evaluating acoustic stealth performance and analyzing detection risks. However, the labeled data available for the training of URN prediction model is limited. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can improve the model performance by using unlabeled data in the case of a lack of labeled data. Therefore, this paper proposes an SSL method for URN prediction. First, an anti-perturbation regularization is constructed using unlabeled data to optimize the objective function of EL, which is then used in the Genetic algorithm to adaptively optimize base learner weights, to enhance pseudo-label quality. Second, a semi-supervised ensemble (ESS) framework integrating dynamic pseudo-label screening and uncertainty bias correction (UBC) is established, which can dynamically select pseudo-labels based on local prediction performance improvement and reduce the influence of pseudo-labels’ uncertainty on the model. Experimental results of the cabin model and sea trials of the ship demonstrate that the proposed method reduces prediction errors by up to 65.5% and 62.1% compared to baseline supervised and semi-supervised regression models, significantly improving prediction accuracy.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/7/1303radiated noise predictionsemi-supervised ensemble learninganti-perturbation regularizationadaptive weightinguncertainty bias correction
spellingShingle Xin Huang
Rongwu Xu
Ruibiao Li
A Ship Underwater Radiated Noise Prediction Method Based on Semi-Supervised Ensemble Learning
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
radiated noise prediction
semi-supervised ensemble learning
anti-perturbation regularization
adaptive weighting
uncertainty bias correction
title A Ship Underwater Radiated Noise Prediction Method Based on Semi-Supervised Ensemble Learning
title_full A Ship Underwater Radiated Noise Prediction Method Based on Semi-Supervised Ensemble Learning
title_fullStr A Ship Underwater Radiated Noise Prediction Method Based on Semi-Supervised Ensemble Learning
title_full_unstemmed A Ship Underwater Radiated Noise Prediction Method Based on Semi-Supervised Ensemble Learning
title_short A Ship Underwater Radiated Noise Prediction Method Based on Semi-Supervised Ensemble Learning
title_sort ship underwater radiated noise prediction method based on semi supervised ensemble learning
topic radiated noise prediction
semi-supervised ensemble learning
anti-perturbation regularization
adaptive weighting
uncertainty bias correction
url https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/7/1303
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