Robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data

Abstract Topological data analysis (TDA) has shown great success in various applications involving wearable sensor data. However, there are difficulties in leveraging topological features in machine learning and wearable sensors because of the large time consumption and computational resources requi...

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Main Authors: Eun Som Jeon, Hongjun Choi, Ankita Shukla, Yuan Wang, Matthew P. Buman, Hyunglae Lee, Pavan Turaga
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Published: SpringerOpen 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-024-00512-y
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author Eun Som Jeon
Hongjun Choi
Ankita Shukla
Yuan Wang
Matthew P. Buman
Hyunglae Lee
Pavan Turaga
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description Abstract Topological data analysis (TDA) has shown great success in various applications involving wearable sensor data. However, there are difficulties in leveraging topological features in machine learning and wearable sensors because of the large time consumption and computational resources required to extract the features. To address this problem, knowledge distillation (KD) is utilized to generate a small model and accommodate topological features with persistence image (PI) representations from the raw time series data. Deploying topological knowledge in KD enables the student to achieve better performance compared to the one trained solely on raw time series data. However, it is not yet known if there are coherent characteristics for topological features in PI, which can aid in improving the performance during KD. In this paper, we investigate the suitability and challenges of utilizing topological features in KD for wearable sensor data, thereby contributing to the advancement of the field. Our study explores the impact of transferred topological features by comparing the Teacher-to-Student framework with Multiple Teachers-to-Student where teachers utilize both time series data and persistence images obtained by TDA as inputs. Additionally, we conduct a rigorous examination of topological knowledge effects by testing under various corruptions, knowledge types, and learning strategies in the context of human activity recognition tasks. Our analysis of topological features in KD presents the optimal strategy for incorporating these features. This study includes datasets of varying scales, window lengths, and activity classes, providing a comprehensive evaluation. Our results demonstrate that leveraging topological features in KD to enhance performance across databases.
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spelling doaj-art-0106c5f6bb944eb3b0ec69fc4461e39c2025-08-20T02:39:39ZengSpringerOpenEPJ Data Science2193-11272024-12-0113112310.1140/epjds/s13688-024-00512-yRobustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor dataEun Som Jeon0Hongjun Choi1Ankita Shukla2Yuan Wang3Matthew P. Buman4Hyunglae Lee5Pavan Turaga6Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and TechnologyLawrence Livermore National LaboratoryDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of NevadaDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South CarolinaCollege of Health Solutions, Arizona State UniversitySchool for Engineering of Matter, Transport and EnergyGeometric Media Lab, School of Arts, Media and Engineering and School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State UniversityAbstract Topological data analysis (TDA) has shown great success in various applications involving wearable sensor data. However, there are difficulties in leveraging topological features in machine learning and wearable sensors because of the large time consumption and computational resources required to extract the features. To address this problem, knowledge distillation (KD) is utilized to generate a small model and accommodate topological features with persistence image (PI) representations from the raw time series data. Deploying topological knowledge in KD enables the student to achieve better performance compared to the one trained solely on raw time series data. However, it is not yet known if there are coherent characteristics for topological features in PI, which can aid in improving the performance during KD. In this paper, we investigate the suitability and challenges of utilizing topological features in KD for wearable sensor data, thereby contributing to the advancement of the field. Our study explores the impact of transferred topological features by comparing the Teacher-to-Student framework with Multiple Teachers-to-Student where teachers utilize both time series data and persistence images obtained by TDA as inputs. Additionally, we conduct a rigorous examination of topological knowledge effects by testing under various corruptions, knowledge types, and learning strategies in the context of human activity recognition tasks. Our analysis of topological features in KD presents the optimal strategy for incorporating these features. This study includes datasets of varying scales, window lengths, and activity classes, providing a comprehensive evaluation. Our results demonstrate that leveraging topological features in KD to enhance performance across databases.https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-024-00512-yKnowledge distillationTopological data analysisPersistence imageWearable sensor data
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Hongjun Choi
Ankita Shukla
Yuan Wang
Matthew P. Buman
Hyunglae Lee
Pavan Turaga
Robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data
EPJ Data Science
Knowledge distillation
Topological data analysis
Persistence image
Wearable sensor data
title Robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data
title_full Robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data
title_fullStr Robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data
title_full_unstemmed Robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data
title_short Robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data
title_sort robustness of topological persistence in knowledge distillation for wearable sensor data
topic Knowledge distillation
Topological data analysis
Persistence image
Wearable sensor data
url https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-024-00512-y
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