The random forest (RF) algorithm is a typical representative of ensemble learning, which is widely used in rolling bearing fault diagnosis. In order to solve the problems of slower diagnosis speed and repeated voting of traditional RF algorithm in rolling bearing fault diagnosis under the big data environment, an efficient rolling bearing fault diagnosis method based on Spark and improved random forest (IRF) algorithm is proposed. By eliminating the decision trees with low classification accuracy and those prone to repeated voting in the original RF, an improved RF with faster diagnosis speed and higher classification accuracy is constructed. For the massive rolling bearing vibration data, in order to improve the training speed and diagnosis speed of the rolling bearing fault diagnosis model, the IRF algorithm is parallelized on the Spark platform. First, an original RF model is obtained by training multiple decision trees in parallel. Second, the decision trees with low classification accuracy in the original RF model are filtered. Third, all path information of the reserved decision trees is obtained in parallel. Fourth, a decision tree similarity matrix is constructed in parallel to eliminate the decision trees which are prone to repeated voting. Finally, an IRF model which can diagnose rolling bearing faults quickly and effectively is obtained. A series of experiments are carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed rolling bearing fault diagnosis method based on Spark and IRF algorithm. The results show that the proposed method can not only achieve good fault diagnosis accuracy, but also have fast model training speed and fault diagnosis speed for large-scale rolling bearing datasets.

Identifying lncRNA–protein interactions (LPIs) is vital to understanding various key biological processes. Wet experiments found a few LPIs, but experimental methods are costly and time-consuming. Therefore, computational methods are increasingly exploited to capture LPI candidates. We introduced relevant data repositories, focused on two types of LPI prediction models: network-based methods and machine learning-based methods. Machine learning-based methods contain matrix factorization-based techniques and ensemble learning-based techniques. To detect the performance of computational methods, we compared parts of LPI prediction models on Leave-One-Out cross-validation (LOOCV) and fivefold cross-validation. The results show that SFPEL-LPI obtained the best performance of AUC. Although computational models have efficiently unraveled some LPI candidates, there are many limitations involved. We discussed future directions to further boost LPI predictive performance.

Industrial equipment health management is an extension of traditional fault diagnosis, which is a frontier research field of information science. The definition and application area of industrial equipment health management are first clarified, and then technologies related to health management are introduced, including feature analysis, fault diagnosis, fault prognosis and other technologies. The difficulties and bottlenecks of various technologies are expounded through comparative analysis, and a feasible scheme for future health management and integration is also discussed in this paper.

Rotating machinery is essential to modern industrial systems, where rolling bearings play a critical role in ensuring mechanical stability and operational efficiency. Failures in bearings can result in serious safety risks and significant financial losses, which highlights the need for accurate and robust methods for diagnosing bearing faults. Traditional diagnostic methods relying on single-source data often fail to fully leverage the rich information provided by multiple sensors and are more prone to performance degradation under noisy conditions. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel bearing fault diagnosis method based on a multi-level fusion framework. First, the Symmetrized Dot Pattern (SDP) method is applied to fuse multi-source signals into unified SDP images, enabling effective fusion at the data level. Then, a combination of RepLKNet and Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU) networks extracts multi-modal features, which are then fused through a cross-attention mechanism to enhance feature representation. Finally, information entropy is utilized to assess the reliability of each feature channel, enabling dynamic weighting to further strengthen model robustness. The experiments conducted on public datasets and noise-augmented datasets demonstrate that the proposed method significantly surpasses other single-source and multi-source data fusion models in terms of diagnostic accuracy and robustness to noise.