arXiv · 2609.37211
Explainable Machine Learning for Multilayer Planar Winding Inductance Estimation
Abstract
Rapid and accurate self-inductance estimation for multilayer rectangle-shaped planar windings is essential for modern high-frequency power converters, yet traditional workflows rely on complex mathematical equations, rigid monomial formulas or unexplainable black-box machine learning (ML) models that degrade severely outside their training domain. This paper introduces an explainable ML framework unifying post-hoc feature attribution (SHAP and permutation importance) with Kolmogorov-Arnold Network-guided symbolic regression via the SR-KAN framework to discover closed-form analytical equations without prior structural assumptions. Evaluated on a new open-source dataset of over 10,000 Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulations across seven out-of-distribution (OOD) classes, standard tree-based ensembles exhibit severe extrapolation errors (> 36%), whereas the unconstrained SR-KAN expression achieves a robust OOD relative error of 8.22%. Experimental verification across 55 physical printed circuit board prototypes (up to 8 layers, with inductances from 4.11 μH to 559.27 μH) confirms that the KAN-discovered expression translates effectively to real-world hardware, predicting inductance with a mean absolute relative error of 6.26%. To support reproducible research, the complete FEA simulation dataset and prototype measurements are released open-source.
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Spyros Rigas, Theofilos Papadopoulos, Georgios Alexandridis, Antonios Antonopoulos. 2026-09-29. Explainable Machine Learning for Multilayer Planar Winding Inductance Estimation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37211
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