{"title":"Novel SMC for Discrete Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Semi-Markovian Switching Models With Incomplete Semi-Markovian Kernel.","authors":"Wenhai Qi, Jichao Zhang, Guangdeng Zong, Shun-Feng Su, Jinde Cao, Ruey-Huei Yeh","doi":"10.1109/TCYB.2025.3579728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2025.3579728","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This work studies the novel sliding mode control (SMC) of discrete nonlinear stochastic switching models under semi-Markovian parameter and incomplete semi-Markovian kernel (SMK). The characteristic of nonlinear system is described by an interval type-2 fuzzy (IT2F) model that can be recognized as a collection of several type-1 fuzzy models. The uncertainties in system parameters is efficiently captured using the lower and upper grades of membership. Based on the mode-dependent Lyapunov function and incomplete SMK, sufficient conditions are proposed to ensure the stability of sliding dynamics. Moreover, an IT2F SMC law based on learning strategy is developed such that the state signals are guided onto the predetermined sliding region and the mode switchings-induced chattering is effectively reduced. Finally, the IT2F SMC strategy is validated through the simulation of truck-trailer model.</p>","PeriodicalId":13112,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144560024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bochun Yue, Kai Wang, Hongqiu Zhu, Chunhua Yang, Weihua Gui
{"title":"Performance-Driven Distillation and Confident Pseudo Labeling for Semi-Supervised Industrial Soft-Sensor Application.","authors":"Bochun Yue, Kai Wang, Hongqiu Zhu, Chunhua Yang, Weihua Gui","doi":"10.1109/TCYB.2025.3580633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2025.3580633","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In industrial soft-sensor applications, labeled samples are often scarce and unable to fully represent the dynamic changes in industrial processes. Although semi-supervised methods offer a potential solution to this issue, existing feature-construction-based methods cannot ensure the effectiveness of the feature, and pseudo-label-based methods lack an established confidence evaluation standard. To address these challenges, this article first proposes a novel performance-driven distillation strategy, which designs an innovative siameseLSTM structure for training multiple teacher models. By assigning higher weights to high-performance teacher models and simultaneously leveraging the guidance of the soft sensing task, the student model is guided to learn more effective feature representations. Additionally, a new pseudo label confidence evaluation strategy is introduced, which aims to enhance the generalization of the base soft-sensor model by selecting samples with high-confidence pseudo labels. Finally, By combining the above two strategies, a semi-supervised soft-sensor framework is proposed for the soft sensing of industrial quality variables. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is validated through two real-world datasets from different stages of the alumina production process. Compared with some existing advanced soft sensor frameworks, the prediction results on different datasets show that the root-mean-square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) are reduced by an average of 10.76% and 11.18%, respectively, while the correlation coefficient (R<sup>2</sup>) is averagely increased by 0.1203.</p>","PeriodicalId":13112,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144560025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the Dimensional Need of Noncontrastive Learning.","authors":"Zhexiao Cao, Lei Huang, Tian Wang, Yinquan Wang, Jingang Shi, Aichun Zhu, Tianyun Shi, Hichem Snoussi","doi":"10.1109/TCYB.2025.3577745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2025.3577745","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Noncontrastive self-supervised learning methods offer an effective alternative to contrastive approaches by avoiding the need for negative samples to avoid representation collapse. Noncontrastive learning methods explicitly or implicitly optimize the representation space, yet they often require large representation dimensions, leading to dimensional inefficiency. To provide negative samples, contrastive learning methods often require large batch sizes, thus regarded as sample inefficient, while noncontrastive learning methods require large representation dimensions, thus regarded as dimension inefficient. Although we have some understanding of the noncontrastive learning method, theoretical analysis of such phenomenon still remains largely unexplored. We present a theoretical analysis of the dimensional need for noncontrastive learning. We investigate the transfer between upstream representation learning and downstream tasks' performance, demonstrating how noncontrastive methods implicitly increase interclass distances within the representation space and how the distance affects the model performance of evaluation performance. We prove that the performance of noncontrastive methods is affected by the output dimension and the number of latent classes, and illustrate why performance degrades significantly when the output dimension is substantially smaller than the number of latent classes. We demonstrate our findings through experiments on image classification experiments, and enrich the verification in audio, graph and text modalities. We also perform empirical evaluation for image models on extensive detection and segmentation tasks beyond classification that show satisfactory correspondence to our theorem.</p>","PeriodicalId":13112,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics","volume":"PP ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144560026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization-Free Smooth Control Barrier Function for Polygonal Collision Avoidance","authors":"Shizhen Wu, Yongchun Fang, Ning Sun, Biao Lu, Xiao Liang, Yiming Zhao","doi":"10.1109/tcyb.2025.3578441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tcyb.2025.3578441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13112,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144547042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disturbance Observer-Based Adaptive Chainlike Filter Approach for Prescribed-Time Consensus Tracking of Nonlinear Multiagent Systems via Dynamic State and Input Triggering","authors":"Hyeong Jin Kim;Sung Jin Yoo","doi":"10.1109/TCYB.2025.3576352","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TCYB.2025.3576352","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the problem of adaptive prescribed-time distributed consensus tracking with dynamic full-state and input triggering for a class of uncertain state-constrained strict-feedback multiagent systems with external disturbances. The primary contribution lies in developing of a novel prescribed-time disturbance observer-based adaptive chainlike filter, capable of generating smooth estimates of intermittently triggered state-feedback signals while compensating for external disturbances and unknown nonlinearities within a predefined convergence time. The multiagent systems are nonlinearly transformed to address state constraints, without needing feasibility conditions on virtual control laws in the recursive design. The dynamic triggering variables are introduced using a prescribed-time adjustment function and distributed tracking errors. Based on the state variables of the adaptive chainlike filters, a prescribed-time distributed consensus tracking strategy is established to guarantee the prescribed-time convergence of filtering errors, disturbance observation errors, leader estimation errors, and consensus tracking errors, without requiring continuous state-feedback measurements. The shared use of neural networks across chainlike filters, disturbance observers, and controllers reduces computational complexity. The practical prescribed-time stability and satisfaction of state constraints in the closed-loop system are proven through a rigorous technical lemma. Finally, simulation results validate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed control scheme.","PeriodicalId":13112,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics","volume":"55 8","pages":"4001-4014"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144500742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lifeisgood: Learning Invariant Features via In-Label Swapping for Generalizing Out-of-Distribution in Machine Fault Diagnosis","authors":"Zhenling Mo;Zijun Zhang;Kwok-Leung Tsui","doi":"10.1109/TCYB.2025.3578712","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TCYB.2025.3578712","url":null,"abstract":"In machine fault diagnosis, conventional data-driven models trained by empirical risk minimization (ERM) often fail to generalize across domains with distinct data distributions caused by various machine operating conditions. One major reason is that ERM primarily focuses on informativeness of data labels and lacks sufficient attention on invariance of data features. To enable invariance on top of informativeness, a learning framework, learning invariant features via in-label swapping for generalizing out-of-distribution (Lifeisgood), is proposed in this study. Lifeisgood is inspired by a simple intuition that invariance can be assessed by checking changes in loss due to swapping certain entries of features with the same labels. Lifeisgood also enjoys a theoretical guarantee on improving testing domain performance under certain conditions based on a swapping 0-1 loss proposed in this work. To circumvent the training difficulties associated with the swapping 0-1 loss, a swapping cross-entropy loss is derived as a surrogate and theoretical justifications for such a relaxation are also provided. As a result, Lifeisgood can be employed conveniently to develop data-driven fault diagnosis models. In the experiments, Lifeisgood outperformed the majority of state-of-the-art methods in terms of average accuracy and exceeded the second-best by 25% in terms of the frequency of beating the generic ERM. The code is available at: <uri>https://github.com/mozhenling/doge-lifeisgood</uri>","PeriodicalId":13112,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics","volume":"55 8","pages":"3699-3712"},"PeriodicalIF":9.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144500747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}