DC-PFL: A dynamic clustering-based personalized federated learning method for human activity recognition
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is essential in pervasive computing, healthcare, and human–computer interaction, where accurate interpretation of motion data underpins intelligent decision-making. Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, but suffers from degraded performance under Non-Independent and Identically Distributed (Non-IID) data, a common challenge in HAR due to user diversity and device heterogeneity. To address this, Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) introduces client-specific modeling, often via clustering. However, most existing approaches adopt static clustering strategies, lacking adaptability to dynamic changes in client data distributions. In this work, we propose DC-PFL, a Dynamic Clustering-based Personalized Federated Learning framework that performs round-wise client clustering using lightweight statistical features, like Average Peak Frequency (APF), percentiles, and Median Absolute Deviation (MAD) derived from local model parameters. This design ensures efficient and privacy-preserving similarity estimation across clients. By dynamically adjusting clusters during training, DC-PFL enables fine-grained personalization, better generalization, and improved robustness to Non-IID conditions. Experimental results on HAR benchmarks demonstrate that DC-PFL achieves superior performance in both accuracy and convergence speed compared to existing methods, including FedCHAR and standard FL baselines, validating its effectiveness in real-world federated HAR scenarios.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it