Graph-Enhanced Prompt Tuning for Evidence-Grounded HFACS Classification in Power-System Safety

Power-system safety is fundamental to protecting lives and ensuring reliable grid operation. Yet, hierarchical text classification (HTC) methods struggle with domain-dense accident narratives that require cross-sentence reasoning, often yielding limited fine-grained recognition, inconsistent label p...

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Published in:Energies
Main Authors: Wenhua Zeng, Wenhu Tang, Diping Yuan, Bo Zhang, Na Xu, Hui Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-10-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/20/5389
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Summary:Power-system safety is fundamental to protecting lives and ensuring reliable grid operation. Yet, hierarchical text classification (HTC) methods struggle with domain-dense accident narratives that require cross-sentence reasoning, often yielding limited fine-grained recognition, inconsistent label paths, and weak evidence traceability. We propose EG-HPT (Evidence-Grounded Hierarchy-Aware Prompt Tuning), which augments hierarchical prompt tuning with Global Pointer-based nested-entity recognition and a sentence–entity heterogeneous graph to aggregate cross-sentence cues; label-aware attention selects Top-<i>k</i> evidence nodes and a weighted InfoNCE objective aligns label and evidence representations, while a hierarchical separation loss and an ancestor-completeness constraint regularize the taxonomy. On a HFACS-based power-accident corpus, EG-HPT consistently outperforms strong baselines in Micro-F1, Macro-F1, and path-constrained Micro-F1 (C-Micro-F1), with ablations confirming the contributions of entity evidence and graph aggregation. These results indicate a deployable, interpretable solution for automated risk factor analysis, enabling auditable evidence chains and supporting multi-granularity accident intelligence in safety-critical operations.
ISSN:1996-1073