arXiv Machine Learning

Machine-Learning-Based Diagnostic Framework for Passive Ultrasonic Detection of Railway Wheel Defects

arXiv:2608. 08301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable identification of railway wheel defects is important for safety and maintenance.

arXiv AI
Sep 25

A Multi-level Information Integration Framework for Physically Verifiable Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery

The paper proposes a Diagnostic Evidence Network (DENet) that augments traditional fault‑diagnosis outputs with structured evidence, including classification, predicted characteristic frequency, and temporal localization of impulses. This evidence aligns with theoretical bearing physics and can be validated at inference time, achieving high AUROC for misclassification detection without sacrificing accuracy. A QLoRA‑adapted language model then translates DENet’s evidence into maintenance reports, markedly reducing unsupported claims.

By Yuntong Chen, Jianyu Liu, Yingqi Li, Guobin Zhao, Ziang Wang, Chao Chen, Xitian Tian, Lijiang Huang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Processing and classifying bird songs using wavelet techniques and supervised learning

The paper presents an integrated framework for processing and classifying invasive bird species vocalizations in noisy natural soundscapes. It uses Bayesian wavelet shrinkage with an Epanechnikov kernel prior to denoise signals, then extracts features such as MFCCs and spectral indices. Supervised models—including Random Forest, Multinomial Logistic Regression, and SVM—are evaluated, with the SVM achieving the highest accuracy (0.9398) on a 10‑dimensional MFCC set.

By Laura Lucia Dominguez Barrios, Fidel Aniano Causil Barrios, Alex Rodrigo dos Santos Sousa, Mariana Rodrigues Motta
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26

A Hybrid Two-Stage Machine Learning Pipeline for Fault Detection and Classification in Power Transmission Systems

The paper introduces a hybrid two‑stage machine learning pipeline for fault detection and classification in high‑voltage transmission networks. Stage 1 uses an Isolation Forest anomaly detector combined with an optional supervised binary detector, while Stage 2 applies a Random Forest multiclass classifier only to samples flagged by Stage 1. Feature engineering maps six raw channels to eighteen features, including zero‑sequence symmetrical components, achieving end‑to‑end accuracies of 95.8 % on the TLFaultDataset and 97.25 % on an independent single‑point dataset, surpassing federated benchmarks without GPU or federated infrastructure.

By Sahil Manikshete, Atharva Gujarathi, Thanh Long Vu, Akhtar Hussain, Van-Hai Bui
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Contrastive Siamese Representation Learning for Predictive Maintenance of Electrical Submersible Pumps

The paper introduces a fault‑diagnosis framework for electrical submersible pumps that uses Siamese contrastive representation learning to handle class imbalance and a prior‑corrected k‑nearest neighbor classifier for robust fault classification. It extracts discriminative vibration‑domain features, trains a Siamese network to cluster same‑fault samples, and applies a distance‑weighted KNN to mitigate imbalance. Validation with a Leave‑One‑ESP‑Out strategy shows consistent performance across unseen pump units, indicating potential for reliable predictive maintenance in offshore oil production.

By Seshu K. Damarla, Xiuli Zhu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

AeroSpectra Sentinel: An Auditable LLM Prompt-Chaining Decision-Support Workflow for Acute Asthma Risk Assessment from Respiratory Sounds and Clinical Signals

arXiv:2606. 08247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Acute asthma risk assessment requires rapid interpretation of respiratory sounds, oxygenation, airflow limitation, speech ability, work of breathing, mental status, and response to reliever therapy.

By Aueaphum Aueawatthanaphisut
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Quality Inspection of Printed Circuit Board Pin Insertion via Semantic Segmentation and Board-Level Feature Extraction

The paper introduces an automated defect detection system for printed circuit board (PCB) pin insertion, combining U‑Net semantic segmentation with contour‑based feature extraction and logistic regression for board‑level pass/fail classification. Segmentation masks generate contour representations of individual pins, from which features such as average contour size are extracted to train the classifier. Evaluated on an industrial dataset and a public PCB pin‑inspection dataset, the method achieved ROC‑AUC scores of 0.990 and 1.000, outperforming PatchCore and instance‑segmentation baselines.

By Nils Rabeneck, Andr\'e Kiunke, Nicole Hoess, Wolfgang Mauerer