SearcharxivSearch

arXiv subjects

Jinghan Wang

Publications and source records attributed to Jinghan Wang.

8 recordsLinked to original sources

Cascaded Multi-Granularity Pruning for On-Device LLM Inference in Industrial IoT

Deploying large language models (LLMs) on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) edge devices demands extreme compression, yet existing structured pruning methods collapse at high compression ratios due to one-shot importance estimation, and their cross-architecture behavior remains unpredictable. This article presents a cascaded multi-granularity pruning framework that removes layers, attention heads, and feed-forward channels in coarse-to-fine order, with lightweight low-rank recovery between stages to re-estimate component importance. An information-theoretic analysis motivates this ordering, and the Structural Independence Assumption (SIA) is formalized as a checkable condition predicting whether per-component pruning criteria are reliable for a given architecture: Multi-Head Attention (MHA)+GELU designs satisfy the SIA, whereas Grouped Query Attention (GQA)+SwiGLU designs violate it. On bearing fault diagnosis spanning 88M to 6.25B-parameter models, the framework extends achievable compression to 13.8 times on MHA+GELU architectures with 83.82% accuracy (+3.70 percentage points (pp) over the strongest baseline), while exposing a ~74pp accuracy collapse on GQA+SwiGLU architectures that violate the SIA. Deployed on an industrial slewing bearing fault diagnosis platform with NVIDIA DGX Spark, compressed models reduce inference latency by up to 67.2% and peak memory by 62.5%, demonstrating viability for IIoT edge inference.

cs.CL

An LLM-based Two-Stage Transformer Framework for Cross-Domain Bearing Fault Diagnosis with Limited Data

Bearing fault diagnosis faces critical challenges when dataset heterogeneity, operating condition variations, and limited labeled data occur simultaneously in industrial environments. Existing approaches address these issues in isolation and rely on implicit feature alignment, limiting effectiveness under concurrent challenges. This paper proposes a knowledge-guided two-stage transfer learning framework that employs a lightweight GPT-2-style Transformer with causal self-attention for hierarchical feature extraction from vibration signals, establishing explicit pathways where pre-trained encoder weights and fault prototype embeddings serve as knowledge carriers from multi-source pre-training to target adaptation. The framework addresses the dual-shift challenge through multi-source learning for generalizable representations, prototype-based knowledge modulation for target adaptation, and taxonomy-adaptive classification for seamless transfer across heterogeneous fault categories. Experimental validation on four real-world datasets demonstrates 92.61% average accuracy with only 10% labeled target data, outperforming state-of-the-art methods by 17.24 percentage points, establishing a practical pathway toward cost-effective predictive maintenance in Industry 4.0 applications.

cs.LG

Digital Twin-Driven Adaptive Sim-to-Real Alignment via Reinforcement Learning for Vibration-Based Bearing Health Monitoring Under Data Scarcity

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. Existing domain adaptation methods apply a class-agnostic global transformation that cannot close all fault-specific gaps without distorting inter-class separability, while uniform source-target mixing introduces distributional noise into the data-abundant Normal class. These limitations stem from treating a sequential, state-dependent alignment problem as a one-shot optimization. Each corrective transformation simultaneously reshapes all class distributions, creating state dependencies that static gradient descent cannot resolve. We formulate feature alignment as a continuous-action Markov decision process solved via Proximal Policy Optimization, where the learned policy issues fault-type-specific affine corrections responsive to the current feature-space configuration, with a dual-objective reward balancing gap minimization against separability preservation. An asymmetry-aware strategy reserves real data for the Normal class while augmenting fault classes with policy-aligned simulated samples. Validation across XJTU-SY, CWRU, and a self-built slewing bearing testbed confirms the dominant gain from reinforcement learning-driven alignment, and cross-equipment linear probing achieves 92.8% without encoder retraining, demonstrating transferable monitoring capability.

cs.LG

Progressive Knowledge-Guided Large Language Model Framework for Bearing Fault Diagnosis

Vibration-based bearing fault diagnosis requires resolving three interrelated measurement challenges, including the trade-off between global statistical feature efficiency and local transient signal fidelity, insufficient traceability of measurement features to underlying fault physics, and ineffective multi-source measurement information fusion across diagnostic scales. This paper presents a progressive physics-guided multi-scale vibration signal processing framework that addresses all three challenges within a unified diagnostic pipeline. An 81-dimensional measurement descriptor, derived from bearing kinematic theory and characteristic defect frequencies, establishes a physically traceable feature space enabling real-time fault screening at approximately 20 ms per sample. A fault-adaptive signal segmentation mechanism then directs analytical attention toward fault-relevant waveform regions guided by physics-based priors, without manual feature engineering. Structured fault mechanism knowledge is further encoded implicitly in model parameters during training, enabling autonomous multi-scale measurement fusion without external knowledge dependencies at inference. Validated on four public benchmark datasets under diverse operating conditions, the framework achieves 98.49% diagnostic accuracy with a 12.6-fold reduction in computational cost relative to signal-level baselines. Interpretability analysis confirms that diagnostic feature activations align with established bearing fault mechanics, supporting measurement traceability in safety-critical industrial systems.

cs.CL

Exact Is Easier: Credit Assignment for Cooperative LLM Agents

Removing an agent from a cooperative team to measure its contribution seems natural, yet in multi-agent LLM systems this evaluation distorts the result it claims to measure. This failure is not isolated: learned critics, trajectory-level baselines, and agent-removal counterfactuals all inherit from standard multi-agent reinforcement learning a premise that exact counterfactual evaluation requires privileged environment access, and therefore approximate. In cooperative LLM systems, this premise is false. Interaction histories are deterministic functions of observable text with no hidden state, so any decision point can be restored exactly, making direct causal measurement possible without parametric approximation. C3 exploits this property by fixing the complete history at each decision point, sampling alternative actions under a frozen behavior policy, and computing unbiased per-decision advantages through a parameter-free leave-one-out baseline. Across six benchmarks spanning math reasoning and code generation, two model families, and two multi-agent topologies, C3 consistently outperforms all baselines; a controlled decomposition confirms gains originate from credit quality, not architecture, while checkpoint restoration reduces training token consumption. The exact solution proves simpler, cheaper, and more effective than all approximate alternatives. The same structural property that enables exact credit also enables exact verification: three independently computable diagnostics, credit fidelity, within-group variance, and inter-agent influence, constitute the first method-agnostic auditing tool for multi-agent LLM credit assignment. Our code is available at https://github.com/EIT-EAST-Lab/C3

cs.LG

Signature Decomposition Method Applying to Pair Trading

High-frequency quantitative trading strategies have long been of significant interest in futures market. While advanced statistical arbitrage and deep learning enhance high-frequency data processing, they diminish opportunities for traditional methods and yield less interpretable, unstable strategies. Consequently, developing stable, interpretable quantitative strategies remains a priority in futures markets. In this study, we propose a novel pair trading strategy by leveraging the mathematical concept of path signature which serves as a feature representation of time series. Specifically, the path signature is decomposed into two new indicators: the path interactivity indicator segmented signature and the directional indicator covariation of increments, which serve as double filters in strategy design. Empirical experiments using minute-level futures data show our strategy significantly outperforms traditional pair trading, delivering higher returns, lower maximum drawdown, and higher Sharpe ratio. The proposed method enhances interpretability and robustness while maintaining strong returns, demonstrating the potential of path signatures in financial trading.

econ.GN

Computing Modes of Instability of Parameterized Nonlinear Systems for Vulnerability Assessment

Engineered systems naturally experience large disturbances that can disrupt desired operation because the system may fail to recover to a stable equilibrium point. It is valuable to determine the mechanism of instability when the system is subject to a particular finite-time disturbance, because this information can be used to improve vulnerability detection, and to design controllers to reduce vulnerability. Often there exists a particular unstable equilibrium point on the region of attraction boundary of the stable equilibrium point such that the unstable eigenvector of the Jacobian at this unstable equilibrium point represents the mode of instability for the disturbance. Unfortunately, it is challenging to find this mode of instability, especially in high dimensional systems, because it is computationally intractable to obtain this particular unstable equilibrium point. This paper develops a novel algorithm for numerically computing the mode of instability for parameterized nonlinear systems without identifying the particular unstable equilibrium point, resulting in a computationally efficient method. The key idea is to first consider the setting where the system recovers, and to average the Jacobian along the system trajectory from the post-disturbance state up until the Jacobian becomes stable. As the system approaches inability to recover, the averaged Jacobians converge to the Jacobian at the particular unstable equilibrium point, and can be used to extract the unstable eigenvector representing the mode of instability. Convergence guarantees are provided for computing the mode of instability, both for the theoretical setting in continuous time, and for the proposed algorithm which relies on numerical integration. Numerical examples illustrate the successful application of the method to identify the mechanism of instability in power systems subject to temporary short circuits.

eess.SY

Near Sample-Optimal Reduction-based Policy Learning for Average Reward MDP

This work considers the sample complexity of obtaining an $\varepsilon$-optimal policy in an average reward Markov Decision Process (AMDP), given access to a generative model (simulator). When the ground-truth MDP is weakly communicating, we prove an upper bound of $\widetilde O(H \varepsilon^{-3} \ln \frac{1}δ)$ samples per state-action pair, where $H := sp(h^*)$ is the span of bias of any optimal policy, $\varepsilon$ is the accuracy and $δ$ is the failure probability. This bound improves the best-known mixing-time-based approaches in [Jin & Sidford 2021], which assume the mixing-time of every deterministic policy is bounded. The core of our analysis is a proper reduction bound from AMDP problems to discounted MDP (DMDP) problems, which may be of independent interests since it allows the application of DMDP algorithms for AMDP in other settings. We complement our upper bound by proving a minimax lower bound of $Ω(|\mathcal S| |\mathcal A| H \varepsilon^{-2} \ln \frac{1}δ)$ total samples, showing that a linear dependent on $H$ is necessary and that our upper bound matches the lower bound in all parameters of $(|\mathcal S|, |\mathcal A|, H, \ln \frac{1}δ)$ up to some logarithmic factors.

cs.LG