AIAug 17, 2025

Hierarchical knowledge guided fault intensity diagnosis of complex industrial systems

arXiv:2508.12375v18 citationsh-index: 12KDD
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This work addresses fault diagnosis for industrial monitoring, presenting an incremental improvement by incorporating hierarchical dependencies into existing methods.

The paper tackled fault intensity diagnosis in complex industrial systems by proposing a hierarchical knowledge guided framework that uses graph convolutional networks and a re-weighted correlation matrix, achieving superior results on four real-world datasets compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Fault intensity diagnosis (FID) plays a pivotal role in monitoring and maintaining mechanical devices within complex industrial systems. As current FID methods are based on chain of thought without considering dependencies among target classes. To capture and explore dependencies, we propose a hierarchical knowledge guided fault intensity diagnosis framework (HKG) inspired by the tree of thought, which is amenable to any representation learning methods. The HKG uses graph convolutional networks to map the hierarchical topological graph of class representations into a set of interdependent global hierarchical classifiers, where each node is denoted by word embeddings of a class. These global hierarchical classifiers are applied to learned deep features extracted by representation learning, allowing the entire model to be end-to-end learnable. In addition, we develop a re-weighted hierarchical knowledge correlation matrix (Re-HKCM) scheme by embedding inter-class hierarchical knowledge into a data-driven statistical correlation matrix (SCM) which effectively guides the information sharing of nodes in graphical convolutional neural networks and avoids over-smoothing issues. The Re-HKCM is derived from the SCM through a series of mathematical transformations. Extensive experiments are performed on four real-world datasets from different industrial domains (three cavitation datasets from SAMSON AG and one existing publicly) for FID, all showing superior results and outperform recent state-of-the-art FID methods.

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