Publications

At IMOS, our research encompasses both methodological contributions and practical applications in Prognostics and Health Management. Our methodological advancements span across diverse fields such as PHM, computer vision, and signal processing, while our applications address various domains, including energy and transportation. Through our work, we strive to bridge the gap between theoretical developments and real-world challenges.

Methodological Contributions

Practical Applications

List of all Publications

From physics to machine learning and back: Part I – Learning with inductive biases in prognostics and health management (PHM)

O. Fink; V. Sharma; I. Nejjar; L. Von Krannichfeldt; S. Garmaev et al. 

Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 2026. Vol. 271, p. 112213. DOI : 10.1016/j.ress.2026.112213.

Uncertainty-guided alignment for unsupervised domain adaptation in regression

I. Nejjar; G. Frusque; F. Forest; O. Fink 

Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 2026. Vol. 270. DOI : 10.1016/j.ress.2025.112143.

Integrating the expected future in load forecasts with contextually enhanced transformer models

R. Theiler; L. Von Krannichfeldt; G. Sansavini; M. F. Howland; O. Fink 

Energy Reports. 2026. Vol. 15. DOI : 10.1016/j.egyr.2026.109223.

Time-Vertex machine learning for optimal sensor placement in temporal graph signals: Applications in structural health monitoring

K. Faghih Niresi; J. Qing; M. Zhao; O. Fink 

Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 2026. Vol. 270, p. 112153. DOI : 10.1016/j.ress.2025.112153.

Loc2: Interpretable Cross-View Localization via Depth-Lifted Local Feature Matching

Z. Xia; C. Xu; A. Alahi 

2026. The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2026-04-23 – 2026-04-27.

2026 Roadmap on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Smart Manufacturing

J. Lee; H. Su; M. Macchi; A. Polenghi; W. Wu et al. 

Machine Learning: Engineering. 2026. DOI : 10.1088/3049-4761/ae5967.

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Short-term State Forecasting in Power Systems across Domains and Time Scales: A Hydroelectric Power Plant Case Study

R. Theiler; O. Fink 

Machine Learning: Engineering. 2026. DOI : 10.1088/3049-4761/ae565c.

Integrating Physics-based and Data-driven Approaches for Probabilistic Building Energy Modeling

L. Von Krannichfeldt; K. Orehounig; O. Fink 

ENERGY AND BUILDINGS. 2026. Vol. 353. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.116838.

From Physics to Machine Learning and Back: Part II – Learning and Observational Bias in Prognostics and Health Management (PHM)

O. Fink; I. Nejjar; V. Sharma; K. F. Niresi; H. Sun et al. 

Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 2026. DOI : 10.1016/j.ress.2026.112376.

A physics-informed graph neural network conserving linear and angular momentum for dynamical systems

V. Sharma; O. Fink 

Nature Communications. 2026. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-025-67802-5.

Advances in Multimodal Adaptation and Generalization: From Traditional Approaches to Foundation Models

H. Dong; M. Liu; K. Zhou; E. Chatzi; J. Kannala et al. 

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 2026.  p. 1 – 20. DOI : 10.1109/tpami.2026.3651319.

Algorithm-informed graph neural networks for leakage detection and localization in water distribution networks

Z. Zhang; O. Fink 

Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 2026. Vol. 265, p. 111494. DOI : 10.1016/j.ress.2025.111494.

Guest Editorial:Beyond Classic Deep Learning: Algorithms for Dealing With Real-World Applications in Industrial Automation

G. A. Susto; O. Fink; S. Kang; L. Mönch; D. Dalle Pezze 

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 2026. Vol. 23, p. vi – xi. DOI : 10.1109/tase.2026.3673438.

TARD: Test-time Domain Adaptation for Robust Fault Detection under Evolving Operating Conditions

H. Sun; O. Fink 

Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 2026. DOI : 10.1016/j.ress.2025.112135.

Equi-Euler GraphNet: An equivariant, temporal-dynamics informed graph neural network for dual force and trajectory prediction in multi-body systems

V. Sharma; R. T. Oddon; P. Tesini; J. Ravesloot; C. Taal et al. 

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 2025. Vol. 241, p. 113533. DOI : 10.1016/j.ymssp.2025.113533.

Interpretable prognostics with concept bottleneck models

F. Forest; K. Rombach; O. Fink 

Information Fusion. 2025. Vol. 124, p. 103427. DOI : 10.1016/j.inffus.2025.103427.

Classifier-free diffusion-based weakly-supervised approach for health indicator derivation in rotating machines: Advancing early fault detection and condition monitoring

W. Hu; G. Frusque; T. Wang; F. Chu; O. Fink 

Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 2025. Vol. 264, p. 111397. DOI : 10.1016/j.ress.2025.111397.

Thermoxels: a voxel-based method to generate simulation-ready 3D thermal models

E. Chassaing; F. Forest; O. Fink; M. Mielle 

Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2025. Vol. 3140, num. 4. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/3140/4/042003.

Explainable AI guided unsupervised fault diagnostics for high-voltage circuit breakers

C. C. Hsu; G. Frusque; F. Forest; F. Macedo; C. M. Franck et al. 

Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 2025. Vol. 263, p. 111199. DOI : 10.1016/j.ress.2025.111199.

Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization for Beamforming Design Using Minorization-Maximization: Convergence Rate and Deep Unfolding

Z. Yang; Z. Zhang; Z. Zhao 

2025. 33rd European Signal Processing Conference, Palermo, Italy, 2025-09-08 – 2025-09-12. p. 2457 – 2461. DOI : 10.23919/eusipco63237.2025.11226730.