Summary of Transformer-based Contrastive Meta-learning For Low-resource Generalizable Activity Recognition, by Junyao Wang et al.
Transformer-Based Contrastive Meta-Learning For Low-Resource Generalizable Activity Recognition
by Junyao Wang, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed TACO approach uses a transformer-based contrastive meta-learning method for human activity recognition (HAR) in low-resource scenarios, addressing distribution shifts and generalizability challenges. This novel method synthesizes virtual target domains during training while prioritizing model generalizability, leveraging the attention mechanism of Transformer to extract expressive features. The supervised contrastive loss function is incorporated within the meta-optimization process for enhanced representation learning. Experimental results show that TACO outperforms existing methods in various low-resource HAR scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary TACO is a new way to help machines learn about human activities, like walking or running, even when they don’t have much data to work with. This can be a big problem because it’s hard for machines to understand how people behave in different situations. The TACO method creates fake scenarios during training to prepare the machine for real-world challenges and focuses on making sure the machine can learn from any data it gets. It also uses attention, a special technique that helps the machine focus on important details. This approach seems to work well, as shown by the results in different low-resource scenarios. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Activity recognition » Attention » Contrastive loss » Meta learning » Optimization » Representation learning » Supervised » Transformer
