EAAI Journal 2026 Journal Article
Fault prototype weighted guided multi-level dynamic alignment network for partial set domain adaptation fault diagnosis
- Bo Liu
- Guofa Li
- Jialong He
- Tianzhe Wang
- Rundong Shi
Partial set domain adaptation for fault diagnosis has garnered significant attention due to its alignment with practical engineering applications. However, current research heavily relies on classifier predictions to evaluate sample transferability, where misclassification may hinder the model's ability to distinguish shared and outlier samples. Moreover, the joint alignment at both instance and class level is often neglected, in complex dynamic application scenarios, the contributions of marginal and conditional probability distributions to positive model transfer differ significantly. To address this, a fault prototype weighted guided multi-level dynamic alignment network (FPW-MDAN) is proposed. To mitigate the biasing effect of classifier predictions on cross-domain transferability evaluation, an inter-domain fault prototype correlation guided weighting strategy is developed. This strategy re-weights both instance and class-level probability weights to enhance the robustness of transferability evaluation and correct the model's identification of shared and outlier samples. Building on this weighting strategy, a multi-level weighted dynamic alignment network is constructed, aiming to align the joint probability distribution of cross-domain shared samples from both global and local perspectives, thereby reducing the influence of outlier samples on the transfer process. In addition, the domain classifier alignment strategy is introduced to ensure the consistency of sub-classifiers' predictions for the same samples from target domain and to improve the prediction accuracy of class boundary samples. Finally, comparative experiments and ablation studies were conducted on both public planetary gearbox and self-made parallel gearbox dataset. The experimental results validate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method in addressing partial-set domain adaptation for fault diagnosis.