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This research proposes a self-supervised learning framework using CNN-GRU models to estimate lithium-ion battery health with minimal labeled data by leveraging unlabeled cycling information. The method achieves robust State of Health estimation even when only 1% of unevenly distributed labels are available, addressing the critical challenge of label sparsity in real-world applications. By aligning model representations directly with degradation patterns through a cycle-order ranking objective, this approach offers a practical pathway for safer and more optimized battery management systems without relying on massive datasets.
Degradation-Aligned Self-Supervised Learning for State of Health Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries under Label Sparsity
arXiv:2608.16612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An accurate estimation of the state of health (SOH) underpins a safe and optimized use of the battery system. Although compelling, data-driven SOH estimation models typically require large amounts of high-quality labeled cycling data, while in practice such labels are often sparse in both quantity and coverage. Therefore, in this work, we propose a degradation-aligned self-supervised learning (SSL) framework based on a convolutional neural network-gated recurrent unit (CNN-GRU) model, which learns aging-consistent representations from unlabeled data through a cycle-order ranking objective as the pretext task for pretraining, thereby enabling robust SOH estimation after fine-tuning on sparsely labeled data. Test results showcase that the proposed ranking-based SSL approach proves to endow the pretrained model with degradation-aligned information from unlabeled data, and after fine-tuning the model can carry out accurate, robust SOH estimation, even when only an extremely limited amount of 1% of unevenly distributed labeled training data is available, where the MAE of 1.718% and RMSE of 2.329% can be achieved on the test cell. In addition, in-depth analyses are presented regarding the influences of label distribution of battery degradation data. We believe this work could shed new light on SOH estimation of lithium-ion batteries under label sparsity in real-world applications.
Abstract:An accurate estimation of the state of health (SOH) underpins a safe and optimized use of the battery system. Although compelling, data-driven SOH estimation models typically require large amounts of high-quality labeled cycling data, while in practice such labels are often sparse in both quantity and coverage. Therefore, in this work, we propose a degradation-aligned self-supervised learning (SSL) framework based on a convolutional neural network-gated recurrent unit (CNN-GRU) model, which learns aging-consistent representations from unlabeled data through a cycle-order ranking objective as the pretext task for pretraining, thereby enabling robust SOH estimation after fine-tuning on sparsely labeled data. Test results showcase that the proposed ranking-based SSL approach proves to endow the pretrained model with degradation-aligned information from unlabeled data, and after fine-tuning the model can carry out accurate, robust SOH estimation, even when only an extremely limited amount of 1% of unevenly distributed labeled training data is available, where the MAE of 1.718% and RMSE of 2.329% can be achieved on the test cell. In addition, in-depth analyses are presented regarding the influences of label distribution of battery degradation data. We believe this work could shed new light on SOH estimation of lithium-ion batteries under label sparsity in real-world applications.
Signal Processing (eess.SP); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2608.16612 [eess.SP]
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