Leveraging Task-Specific Context to Improve Unsupervised Adaptation for Myoelectric Control
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Abstract
While there has been renewed interest in the use of myoelectric control for general-purpose applications, the burden of training and maintaining robust models still limits its real-world viability. Online unsupervised adaptation has been proposed to solve this issue by updating the model using predicted pseudo-labels in real time during regular device use. Until now, however, these unsupervised strategies have been limited as they rely on the very classifier outputs they are adapting, making them ill-suited when there is a drastic shift in the input space (e.g., after donning and doffing a device) or there is insufficient training data. In such situations, leveraging context (i.e., task-specific information that can help understand or assess a circumstance) could provide additional guidance for adaptation and improve its robustness. Although difficult to extract in traditional prosthesis control use cases without additional sensors, context may be more readily available in other general-purpose applications, such as in human-computer interaction. In this study, we explore leveraging context, both positive (i.e., reinforcing correct actions) and negative (i.e., correcting poor actions), for conditioning pseudo-label predictions within an adaptive gamified target acquisition setting. The results show that leveraging this additional con-text significantly outperforms the current state-of-the-art high-confidence unsupervised adaptation (p<0.05) using both offline and online performance metrics. This pilot work contributes novel findings and contextual approaches that do not rely on additional sensors, and thus outlines a promising direction of study for myoelectric control as a reliable and effective interaction technique.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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