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However, this assumption is frequently violated in real-world industrial scenarios, where normal samples predominate while fault samples are inherently scarce. Under severe class imbalance, conventional decision boundaries tend to shift toward minority fault regions. This shift leads to persistently high misclassification rates for rare fault samples. To overcome this limitation, we propose the Dynamic Maximum Triple-View Classifier Discrepancy (DMTVCD) network, which integrates a Triple-View Classifier (TVC) Architecture and a Primary\u2013Auxiliary Fused Cooperative Loss (PAFL). Specifically, the TVC employs auxiliary binary classifiers to aggregate fine-grained fault sub-classes into a unified \u201cFault Super-class.\u201d This constructs a robust \u201cnormal-fault\u201d binary boundary that effectively counteracts class imbalance. Driven by the PAFL, this boundary acts as a hierarchical geometric constraint to suppress the primary classifier\u2019s tendency to misclassify faults as normal samples, thereby enhancing feature discriminability. Furthermore, a dynamic weighting strategy is introduced to assign large initial weights. This forces the model to bypass simple decision logic dominated by the majority class, ensuring a smooth transition from global exploration to fine-grained alignment. Extensive evaluations on the CWRU and JNU datasets demonstrate that DMTVCD consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches under high imbalance ratios (e.g., 20:1).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/a19030228","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,18]],"date-time":"2026-03-18T10:11:12Z","timestamp":1773828672000},"page":"228","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Cross-Domain Bearing Fault Diagnosis Under Class Imbalance: A Dynamic Maximum Triple-View Classifier Discrepancy Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Rui","family":"Luo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Equipment and Product Innovation Design Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Huiyang","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Equipment and Product Innovation Design Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haitian","family":"Wen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Equipment and Product Innovation Design Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongying","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Equipment and Product Innovation Design Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yitong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Equipment and Product Innovation Design Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3656-9480","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kai","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Electromechanical Equipment and Product Innovation Design Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"020702","DOI":"10.1063\/5.0255451","article-title":"A comprehensive review of deep learning-based fault diagnosis approaches for rolling bearings: Advancements and challenges","volume":"15","author":"Wang","year":"2025","journal-title":"AIP Adv."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"485","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ymssp.2010.07.017","article-title":"Rolling element bearing diagnostics\u2014A tutorial","volume":"25","author":"Randall","year":"2011","journal-title":"Mech. 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