JDF Journal of Digital Frontier Digital Intelligence Press HK https://dipscie.com/index.php/JDF/index 3135-7695 30 Articles <bold>Power Transformer Fault Diagnosis and Prediction Based on Deep Learning</bold> You Haoyu 19953322591@163.com Hua Longtai longtaihua5@gmail.com Su Tianyi 2396287972@qq.com Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Jinan, Shandong, China 22 08 2026 144 184 Received: 3152026 Copyright (c) 2026 Haoyu You, Longtai Hua, Tianyi Su (Author) 2026 Haoyu You, Longtai Hua, Tianyi Su (Author) <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="//i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><p>This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.</p> Power transformer; Fault diagnosis; Remaining life prediction; Generative adversarial network; Temporal convolutional network [1] Shi, Z., Wu, G., Xin, D., Liu, K., Wei, S., Li, Y., ... & Gao, G. 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