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The use of machine learning models in system identification has increased due to their ability to approximate complex nonlinear dynamics with high accuracy. However, often it is not clear how the performance of trained models scales with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Marco Roschkowski , Karim Cherifi , Hannes Gernandt

Feature extraction is crucial for human activity recognition (HAR) using body-worn movement sensors. Recently, learned representations have been used successfully, offering promising alternatives to manually engineered features. Our work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Harish Haresamudram , Irfan Essa , Thomas Ploetz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on the sensors of mobile/wearable devices aims to detect the physical activities performed by humans in their daily lives. Although supervised learning methods are the most effective in this task,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Sannara Ek , Riccardo Presotto , Gabriele Civitarese , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Claudio Bettini

When trained on large-scale object classification datasets, certain artificial neural network models begin to approximate core object recognition behaviors and neural response patterns in the primate brain. While recent machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Abdulkadir Gokce , Martin Schrimpf

We study empirical scaling laws for transfer learning between distributions in an unsupervised, fine-tuning setting. When we train increasingly large neural networks from-scratch on a fixed-size dataset, they eventually become data-limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Danny Hernandez , Jared Kaplan , Tom Henighan , Sam McCandlish

Scale has been a major driving force in improving machine learning performance, and understanding scaling laws is essential for strategic planning for a sustainable model quality performance growth, long-term resource planning and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Newsha Ardalani , Carole-Jean Wu , Zeliang Chen , Bhargav Bhushanam , Adnan Aziz

Unobtrusive and smart recognition of human activities using smartphones inertial sensors is an interesting topic in the field of artificial intelligence acquired tremendous popularity among researchers, especially in recent years. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Meysam Vakili , Masoumeh Rezaei

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely adopted in a wide range of tasks, leading to increasing attention towards the research on how scaling LLMs affects their performance. Existing works, termed Scaling Laws, have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yizhe Xiong , Xiansheng Chen , Xin Ye , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Haoran Lian , Zhenpeng Su , Wei Huang , Jianwei Niu , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on wearable inertial sensors plays a critical role in remote health monitoring. In patients with movement disorders, the ability to detect abnormal patient movements in their home environments can…

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors is critical for applications in healthcare, safety, and industrial production. However, variations in activity patterns, device types, and sensor placements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hua Yan , Heng Tan , Yi Ding , Pengfei Zhou , Vinod Namboodiri , Yu Yang

There is a recent trend in machine learning to increase model quality by growing models to sizes previously thought to be unreasonable. Recent work has shown that autoregressive generative models with cross-entropy objective functions…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Jasha Droppo , Oguz Elibol

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a key building block of many emerging applications such as intelligent mobility, sports analytics, ambient-assisted living and human-robot interaction. With robust HAR, systems will become more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Mirco Moencks , Varuna De Silva , Jamie Roche , Ahmet Kondoz

Gait recognition from video streams is a challenging problem in computer vision biometrics due to the subtle differences between gaits and numerous confounding factors. Recent advancements in self-supervised pretraining have led to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Adrian Cosma , Andy Cǎtrunǎ , Emilian Rǎdoi

There has been much recent research on human activity re\-cog\-ni\-tion (HAR), due to the proliferation of wearable sensors in watches and phones, and the advances of deep learning methods, which avoid the need to manually extract features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Downstream scaling laws aim to predict task performance at larger scales from the model's performance at smaller scales. Whether such prediction should be possible is unclear: some works discover clear linear scaling trends after simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Nicholas Lourie , Michael Y. Hu , Kyunghyun Cho

We introduce SensorLLM, a two-stage framework that enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform human activity recognition (HAR) from sensor time-series data. Despite their strong reasoning and generalization capabilities, LLMs remain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zechen Li , Shohreh Deldari , Linyao Chen , Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a core task in pervasive computing systems, where models must operate under strict computational constraints while remaining robust to heterogeneous and evolving deployment conditions. Recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Aleksandr Bredikhin , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

The use of supervised learning for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on mobile devices leads to strong classification performances. Such an approach, however, requires large amounts of labeled data, both for the initial training of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Riccardo Presotto , Sannara Ek , Gabriele Civitarese , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Claudio Bettini

Low precision training and inference affect both the quality and cost of language models, but current scaling laws do not account for this. In this work, we devise "precision-aware" scaling laws for both training and inference. We propose…

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) underpins many ubiquitous and wearable computing applications, yet current models remain limited by scarce labels, sensor heterogeneity, and weak generalization across users, devices, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Sizhen Bian , Mengxi Liu , Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Thomas Ploetz , Paul Lukowicz , Siyu Yuan , Vitor Fortes Rey