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The classification of high-dimensional data remains a difficult topic despite the fact that numerous data-driven intelligent diagnosis approaches have been suggested and employed for compound fault diagnosis in recent years with successful outcomes. In order to achieve the best diagnostic performance as the ultimate objective, a feature selection and fault decoupling framework is proposed in this paper. That is based on multi-label K-nearest neighbors (ML-kNN) as classifiers and can automatically determine the optimal subset from the original high-dimensional feature set. The proposed feature selection method is a hybrid framework that can be divided into three stages. The Fisher score, information gain, and Pearson\u2019s correlation coefficient are three filter models that are used in the first stage to pre-rank candidate features. In the second stage, a weighting scheme based on the weighted average method is proposed to fuse the pre-ranking results obtained in the first stage and optimize the weights using a genetic algorithm to re-rank the features. The optimal subset is automatically and iteratively found in the third stage using three heuristic strategies, including binary search, sequential forward search, and sequential backward search. The method takes into account the consideration of feature irrelevance, redundancy and inter-feature interaction in the selection process, and the selected optimal subsets have better diagnostic performance. In two gearbox compound fault datasets, ML-kNN performs exceptionally well using the optimal subset with subset accuracy of 96.22% and 100%. The experimental findings demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in predicting various labels for compound fault samples to identify and decouple compound faults. 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