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Instrumental variable methods are fundamental to causal inference when treatment assignment is confounded by unobserved variables. In this article, we develop a general nonparametric causal framework for identification and learning with…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-10 Shuyuan Chen , Peng Zhang , Yifan Cui

In this paper, we report a hierarchical deep learning model for classification of complex human activities using motion sensors. In contrast to traditional Human Activity Recognition (HAR) models used for event-based activity recognition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Eric Rosen , Doruk Senkal

Identifying causal relations among multi-variate time series is one of the most important elements towards understanding the complex mechanisms underlying the dynamic system. It provides critical tools for forecasting, simulations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Yang Sun , Yifan Xie

Human activity recognition (HAR) is an essential research field that has been used in different applications including home and workplace automation, security and surveillance as well as healthcare. Starting from conventional machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Rebeen Ali Hamad , Wai Lok Woo , Bo Wei , Longzhi Yang

The goal of causal representation learning is to find a representation of data that consists of causally related latent variables. We consider a setup where one has access to data from multiple domains that potentially share a causal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-30 Nils Sturma , Chandler Squires , Mathias Drton , Caroline Uhler

Leveraging deep learning for causal discovery in time series remains challenging because existing neural methods predominantly rely on component-wise architectures that fail to capture shared system dynamics or employ decoupled post-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Omar Muhammad , Pasupuleti Dhruv Shivkant , Deepak N. Subramani

Wearable computing and context awareness are the focuses of study in the field of artificial intelligence recently. One of the most appealing as well as challenging applications is the Human Activity Recognition (HAR) utilizing smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Mingtao Dong , Jindong Han

Given the growing trend of continual learning techniques for deep neural networks focusing on the domain of computer vision, there is a need to identify which of these generalizes well to other tasks such as human activity recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Saurav Jha , Martin Schiemer , Juan Ye

As of today, state-of-the-art activity recognition from wearable sensors relies on algorithms being trained to classify fixed windows of data. In contrast, video-based Human Activity Recognition, known as Temporal Action Localization (TAL),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Marius Bock , Michael Moeller , Kristof Van Laerhoven

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

Conventional supervised learning methods, especially deep ones, are found to be sensitive to out-of-distribution (OOD) examples, largely because the learned representation mixes the semantic factor with the variation factor due to their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-02 Chang Liu , Xinwei Sun , Jindong Wang , Haoyue Tang , Tao Li , Tao Qin , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

A central question in neuroscience is how self-organizing dynamic interactions in the brain emerge on their relatively static structural backbone. Due to the complexity of spatial and temporal dependencies between different brain areas,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-15 Simon Wein , Wilhelm Malloni , Ana Maria Tomé , Sebastian M. Frank , Gina-Isabelle Henze , Stefan Wüst , Mark W. Greenlee , Elmar W. Lang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) describes the machines ability to recognize human actions. Nowadays, most people on earth are health conscious, so people are more interested in tracking their daily activities using Smartphones or Smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Sanku Satya Uday , Satti Thanuja Pavani , T. Jaya Lakshmi , Rohit Chivukula

Humans naturally follow distinct patterns when conducting their daily activities, which are driven by established practices and processes, such as production workflows, social norms and daily routines. Human activity recognition (HAR)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jiawei Zheng , Petros Papapanagiotou , Jacques D. Fleuriot , Jane Hillston

Despite living in a multi-sensory world, most AI models are limited to textual and visual understanding of human motion and behavior. In fact, full situational awareness of human motion could best be understood through a combination of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Abhi Kamboj , Minh Do

Causal discovery is at the core of human cognition. It enables us to reason about the environment and make counterfactual predictions about unseen scenarios that can vastly differ from our previous experiences. We consider the task of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yunzhu Li , Antonio Torralba , Animashree Anandkumar , Dieter Fox , Animesh Garg

Quite a few people in the world have to stay under permanent surveillance for health reasons; they include diabetic people or people with some other chronic conditions, the elderly and the disabled.These groups may face heightened risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Anna Nedorubova , Alena Kadyrova , Aleksey Khlyupin

We focus on the extension of bivariate causal learning methods into multivariate problem settings in a systematic manner via a novel framework. It is purposive to augment the scale to which bivariate causal discovery approaches can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-29 Hongyi Chen , Maurits Kaptein

Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization has become a primary metric for evaluating image analysis systems. Since deep learning models tend to capture domain-specific context, they often develop shortcut dependencies on these non-causal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Haoran Pei , Yuguang Yang , Kexin Liu , Juan Zhang , Baochang Zhang

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations aims to infer utterance-level emotions by jointly modeling textual, acoustic, and visual cues within context. Despite recent progress, key challenges remain, including redundant cross-modal…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Chengling Guo , Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Yun Tan , Keqin Li