arXiv AI

MemFLoRA: Memory-Floor LoRA for CNN Adaptation at the Edge

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Activation Boundary Matching: Task-Informed Initialization for Low-Rank Adaptation

The paper introduces Activation Boundary Matching for Low‑Rank Adaptation (ABM‑LoRA), a task‑informed initialization strategy that uses the signs of layer‑wise pre‑activations from a brief probe adapter as targets for a fresh adapter. By training with a margin‑based hinge objective on these activation boundaries, ABM‑LoRA captures useful adaptation directions that standard LoRA initializers miss, while requiring only a few forward passes. Experiments show that ABM‑LoRA outperforms or matches existing LoRA, SVD, and gradient‑based initializers across multiple models and benchmarks, including T5‑base/GLUE, ConvNeXt‑T, Swin‑T, Qwen2.5‑1.5B, and LLaMA2‑7B.

By Dongha Lee, Jinhee Park, Minjun Kim, Junseok Kwon
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Gated Adaptation for Continual Learning in Human Activity Recognition

arXiv:2603. 10046v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wearable sensors in Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems increasingly support applications such as remote health monitoring, elderly care, and smart home automation, all of which rely on robust human activity recognition (HAR).

By Reza Rahimi Azghan, Gautham Krishna Gudur, Mohit Malu, Edison Thomaz, Giulia Pedrielli, Pavan Turaga, Hassan Ghasemzadeh
arXiv AI
Jun 12

LoRA-Muon: Spectral Steepest Descent on the Low-Rank Manifold

arXiv:2606. 12921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) significantly reduces compute and memory costs for finetuning Deep Learning models but is often harder to tune than dense training: when using factor-wise optimizers such as AdamW, it is sensitive to initialization choices, its optimal learning rates transfer poorly across ranks, and it often fails to beat dense baselines.

By Franz Louis Cesista, Katherine Crowson, C\'edric Simal, Stella Biderman
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

HALO: A Heterogeneity-Aware Language-Aligned IMU Foundation Model for Open-Set Human Activity Recognition

HALO is a heterogeneity‑aware, language‑aligned foundation model for inertial measurement unit (IMU) based human activity recognition. It uses a two‑stage training process: first, a self‑supervised encoder learns to handle diverse sensor configurations and natural‑language sensor descriptions; second, the encoder is aligned with text embeddings through synonym‑aware contrastive learning, enabling open‑set recognition via cosine similarity. Trained on ten public HAR datasets, HALO outperforms five state‑of‑the‑art baselines across eight metrics while using only ~35 M parameters, and improves zero‑shot open‑set accuracy by 13.7 percentage points over 87 training labels.

By Zihan Ding, Liyu Zhang, Xiaomin Ouyang