BayaHAR: Lightweight Bayesian Few-Shot User Adaptation for On-Device Personalized Human Activity Recognition

BayaHAR is a lightweight, gradient‑free framework that adapts pretrained sensor‑based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) classifiers to new users by converting them into Prototypical Networks with prior prototypes that maintain zero‑shot performance. It introduces closed‑form Bayesian prototype estimation for labeled calibration data and extends this approach to weakly labeled data, requiring only activity labels. With just three seconds of calibration per activity, supervised adaptation boosts test macro‑F1 on unseen users by 2.76–33.44 percentage points across four datasets, while weakly supervised adaptation improves by 0.56–32.13 points, enabling efficient on‑device personalization.

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