arXiv Machine Learning

RAG-HAR+: Towards Cost-Efficient LLM-Based Human Activity Recognition for Edge Deployment

arXiv:2607. 26631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human Activity Recognition (HAR) from wearable sensors supports applications in healthcare, rehabilitation, fitness tracking, and smart environments.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

STELLA: Efficient Sensor-to-LLM Translation for On-Device Human Activity Recognition

arXiv:2607. 03089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: HAR is increasingly expected to run continuously on edge devices, yet recent LLM-based methods remain hard to deploy: raw sensor prompts are long, cloud inference adds latency and privacy risk, and fine-tuned LLM pipelines turn general-purpose models into task-specific classifiers.

By Nirhoshan Sivaroopan, Albert Zomaya, Kanchana Thilakarathna
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Coverage-Aware Virtual IMU Augmentation for Low-Resource Human Activity Recognition

The paper introduces a coverage-aware virtual IMU augmentation framework for human activity recognition. It selects diverse and scarce data points in a learned sensor embedding space, generates virtual IMU samples as prompts, ranks them by proximity and label consistency, and incorporates them into training with reliability-based weights. Experiments on public benchmarks demonstrate consistent performance gains over existing baselines, with ablation studies confirming the framework’s effectiveness.

By Jiayuan Gao, Yingwei Zhang, Ziyao Tang, Yuejia Ma, Yuanzhe Chen, Shuchao Song, Boshi Tang
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Domain Generalization for Smartphone-Based Human Activity Recognition: A Systematic Analysis of Components and Interactions

The paper presents a comprehensive benchmark for Domain Generalization (DG) in smartphone-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR), running over 410,000 experiments across multiple architectures, training objectives, initialization strategies, and architectural tweaks. It finds that individual DG components offer limited, highly conditional improvements, while combined configurations often yield stronger, sometimes super‑additive gains that depend on the model and shift scenario. The study also highlights that current source‑validation selection captures only a fraction of the potential oracle performance, underscoring the need for joint DG design and robust model‑selection methods.

By Ot\'avio Oliveira Napoli, Edson Borin
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Gravity-Aware Hierarchical Routing for Lightweight SensorLLM on Human Activity Recognition

arXiv:2606. 04019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent studies on sensor-language alignment have shown that two-stage frameworks can improve the semantic modeling ability of wearable-sensor human activity recognition (HAR), where SensorLLM-style methods first perform motion-to-language alignment and then fine-tune the model for downstream tasks.

By Hao Li, Mingrui Zheng, Yasuyuki Tahara, Yuichi Sei