arXiv:2609.01410v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Generative data augmentation is widely used to mitigate class imbalance, yet its theoretical effect on downstream generalization remains poorly under...
By Chathurika S Abeykoon, Mathias Nthiani Muia, Mallory Goldstein
The paper investigates whether the stable GAN architecture R3GAN can improve time‑series imputation when adapted to 1‑D temporal data. Using a coarse‑to‑fine refinement framework and a frequency‑domain discriminator, the authors evaluate 14 saved configurations across three datasets and find a negative result: most configurations either show negligible improvement or degrade performance compared to baseline methods. The study highlights that the usual argument—GANs optimize distributional objectives rather than point‑wise ones—does not fully explain the lack of benefit, and it poses an open problem regarding why a learned discriminator fails to provide useful refinement gradients while diffusion denoisers succeed, offering practical guidance on when adversarial refinement may be worthwhile.
By Yufeng He
arXiv:2608. 10096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern data science increasingly gives rise to hypothesis-testing problems that are not naturally formulated in terms of parameters within prespecified statistical models.
By Hyunjoo Kim, Sicheng Wu, Agastya Venkatraman, Guang Lin, Sehwan Kim
arXiv:2607. 22797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Trustworthy deployment of AI-based diagnosis in safety-critical mechanical systems hinges on validation: whether a prediction can be checked against physical reality before it is acted upon.
By Yuntong Chen, Jianyu Liu, Guobin Zhao, Ziang Wang, Chao Chen, Ju Huang, Xitian Tian, Lijiang Huang
arXiv:2607. 19153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supervised learning models in the predictive maintenance field are regularly trained on highly imbalanced industrial datasets: machine failures occur rarely but have a disproportionate effect on operations.
By Alexis Lazanas, Georgios Kampouropoulos
IRENE is a deep learning model that provides probabilistic short‑range precipitation nowcasts over Italy at 1 km spatial and 5‑minute temporal resolution. It uses an encoder–forecaster architecture built on multi‑scale Convolutional Gated Recurrent Units (ConvGRUs) and is trained on national radar composites, with an importance‑sampling scheme and the almost‑fair Continuous Ranked Probability Score as its primary loss. Three training variants—standard, adversarial (IRENE‑GAN), and spectrally constrained (IRENE‑GAN‑RAPSD)—outperform benchmark methods STEPS and DGMR in probabilistic skill, though the advantage in mean absolute error is limited to the first 90 minutes.
By Alessandro Camilletti, Gabriele Franch, Elena Tomasi, Marco Cristoforetti
Supervised learning models in the predictive maintenance field are regularly trained on highly imbalanced industrial datasets: machine failures occur rarely but have a disproportionate effect on operations. In addition to the clear class disparity, failure data are typically non-homogeneous, with different failure modes arising from distinct physical processes and exhibiting a multimodal distribution across minorities and classes.
arXiv:2508. 00472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The tabular form constitutes the standard way of representing data in relational database systems and spreadsheets.
By Leonidas Akritidis, Panayiotis Bozanis
arXiv:2608. 09768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A prediction that is both confident and wrong is a critical reliability failure because it can bypass abstention and human review precisely when the model is mistaken.
By Ange-Cl\'ement Akazan, Ineza Remy Mugenga, Abebe Geletu, Jean Medard Ngnotchouye, Issa Karambal
arXiv:2606. 24954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vibration-based health monitoring of rotating machinery requires reliable fault diagnosis under operational data constraints, yet condition assessment remains challenged by structural scarcity of fault events and heterogeneous sim-to-real gaps in digital twin-generated signals.
By Jinghan Wang, Yanjun Chen, Wei Zhang, Wentao Wu, Tianchen Liu, Gaoliang Peng
arXiv:2509. 22267v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable detection of bearing faults is essential for maintaining the safety and operational efficiency of rotating machinery.
By Jo\~ao Paulo Vieira, Victor Afonso Bauler, Rodrigo Kobashikawa Rosa, Danilo Silva
Vibration-based health monitoring of rotating machinery requires reliable fault diagnosis under operational data constraints, yet condition assessment remains challenged by structural scarcity of fault events and heterogeneous sim-to-real gaps in digital twin-generated signals. Each fault type generates impulses with distinct periodicity, amplitude modulation, and spectral character, making feature-space discrepancies fundamentally heterogeneous across fault classes.