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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · August 10, 2026
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LITEWAY is a novel fully convolutional architecture for human activity recognition on resource-constrained wearable devices, designed to replace recurrent models with structured convolution and attention. The work demonstrates model compression and energy efficiency gains in computational benchmarks, but remains an unreviewed preprint without clinical validation or independent replication.
Comparative algorithm evaluation on benchmark datasets. Human activity recognition datasets; no information on dataset composition, subject demographics, or activity types.. Intervention: LITEWAY: modality-agnostic fully convolutional framework combining lightweight convolutional blocks, strided temporal processing, and convolution-attention pooling.. Compared with: TinyHAR, TinierHAR, and MLP-HAR.
Model size reduction of 4.06x–9.52x (Light variant) and 3.87x–9.07x (Full variant) versus TinyHAR and TinierHAR Energy reductions of 2.29x–3.14x (Light) and 1.46x–2.01x (Full) versus TinierHAR and MLP-HAR Competitive macro F1 scores maintained across 16 HAR datasets
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Not applicable. This is a computational methods paper without clinical endpoints, patient cohorts, or evidence of improved activity detection outcomes in real-world wearable use.
Unreviewed preprint presenting a novel computational method with benchmarking against existing models, but no clinical validation, real-world deployment data, or peer review.
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Not applicable. This is a computational methods paper without clinical endpoints, patient cohorts, or evidence of improved activity detection outcomes in real-world wearable use.
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Wearable human activity recognition (HAR) remains challenging due to the computational and energy constraints of deep learning models on resource-limited devices. Existing lightweight approaches often rely on recurrent architectures (e.g., GRU and LSTM), limiting parallelism and increasing inference latency. We propose LITEWAY, a modality-agnostic, fully convolutional framework for multichannel sensor time series that replaces recurrent temporal modeling with structured convolutional decomposition. LITEWAY combines lightweight convolutional blocks, strided temporal processing, and convolution-attention pooling to efficiently capture temporal dependencies while reducing computational complexity. We evaluate LITEWAY on 16 HAR datasets against TinyHAR, TinierHAR, and MLP-HAR. LITEWAY achieves competitive macro F1 while reducing model size by 4.06x-9.52x (Light) and 3.87x-9.07x (Full) compared with TinyHAR and TinierHAR. Deployment experiments further show energy reductions of 2.29x-3.14x (Light) and 1.46x-2.01x (Full) compared with TinierHAR and MLP-HAR, highlighting efficient fully convolutional temporal modeling for wearable HAR. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/dominique-nshimyimana/liteway.
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