FSM-net: Dual-path signal classification with learned frequency decomposition
摘要
Neural networks for time-series classification typically process all frequency components uniformly, ignoring the spectral structure that domain experts routinely exploit. We propose FSM-Net, an architecture that learns to partition the frequency domain into target and interference bands via trainable STFT-based gates, processes them through dual-pathway LSTMs, and recombines them via attention-based adaptive fusion. Evaluated against eight baselines spanning convolutional, recurrent, attention, and learnable-filterbank paradigms on CWRU and Paderborn University bearing diagnosis and MIT-BIH arrhythmia detection, FSM-Net achieves 97.74%, 92.61%, and 96.54% test accuracy respectively. While modern convolutional baselines (LiConvFormer, SincNet, WDCNN) attain marginally higher clean accuracy, FSM-Net offers two complementary advantages. First, the learned gates yield physically interpretable decompositions: on CWRU the network suppresses the kinematic fault bins (BPFO/BPFI gates