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SenseGAN: Enabling Deep Learning for Internet of Things with a Semi-Supervised Framework

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Yao, Shuochao, Zhao, Yiran, Shao, Huajie, Zhang, Chao, Zhang, Aston, Hu, Shaohan, Liu, Dongxin, Liu, Shengzhong +2 more·2018·Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

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Recent proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices with enhanced computing and sensing capabilities has revolutionized our everyday life. The massive data from these ubiquitous devices motivate the creation of intelligent IoT systems that can collectively learn. However, labelling data for learning purposes is extremely time-consuming, which greatly hinders deployment. In this paper, we describe a semi-supervised deep learning framework, called SenseGAN, that can leverage abundant unlabelled sensing data thereby minimizing the need for labelling effort. SenseGAN jointly trains three components with an adversarial game: (i) a classifier for predicting labels of input sensing data; (ii) a generator for generating sensing data samples based on the input labels; and (iii) a discriminator for differentiating the joint data/label distribution between real samples and partially generated samples from either the classifier or the generator. The classifier and the generator try to generate fake data/labels that can fool the discriminator. The adversarial game among the three components can mutually boost their performance, which helps the classifier learn to predict correct labels with unlabelled data in return. SenseGAN can effectively handle multimodal sensing inputs and easily stabilize the adversarial training process, which helps improve the performance of the classifier. Experiments on three IoT applications demonstrate the substantial improvements in accuracy and F1 score under SenseGAN, compared with supervised counterparts trained only on the labelled portion of the data, as well as other supervised and semi-supervised baselines. For these three applications, SenseGAN requires only 10% of the originally labelled data, to attain nearly the same accuracy as a deep learning classifier trained on the fully labelled dataset.

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    “However, this work only focused on simple IoT applications, not on HAR tasks.”

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Authors
Yao, S., Zhao, Y., Shao, H., Zhang, C., Zhang, A., Hu, S., Liu, D., Liu, S., Su, L., & Abdelzaher, T.
Affiliations
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
  • Amazon (United States) (US)
  • IBM (United States) (US)
  • State University of New York at Buffalo
Venue
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Published
2018-09-18
Volume
2
Issue
3
Pages
1-21
ISSN
2474-9567 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2891048219
Cited by
54
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 1
FWCI
4.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (CNS 16-18627, CNS 13-20209)
  • Army Research Laboratory (W911NF-09-2-0053,W911NF-17-2-0196)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Algorithms
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Internet of Things and AI
Keywords
semi-supervised learning, Internet of Things, sensor data, generative adversarial networks, multimodal sensing, label prediction, data augmentation, adversarial training

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