Encoding Invisible Causation for Bridge Diagnostic Agents: Triple-Guided Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning with QLoRA
arXiv cs.LG5d4 min read
arXiv:2607.21680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bridge infrastructure deteriorates gradually, yet its root causes---salt intrusion, freezing, fatigue cracking, and others---remain invisible to the naked eye. Expert diagnosis relies on tacit knowledge built over years of practice. We address the challenge of automating this latent causal reasoning by proposing a Damage Cause Encoder that classifies 10-class damage causes from visible damage descriptions $S_i$ for use in autonomous bridge diagnostic agents. Our approach chains three components: (i)Knowledge Triple Extraction---a large language m