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CAREC: Continual Wireless Action Recognition with Expansion–Compression Coordination

Tingting Zhang,Qunhang Fu,Han Ding,Ge Wang,Fei Wang

Published 2025 in Italian National Conference on Sensors

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In real-world applications, user demands for new functionalities and activities constantly evolve, requiring action recognition systems to incrementally incorporate new action classes without retraining from scratch. This class-incremental learning (CIL) paradigm is essential for enabling adaptive and scalable systems that can grow over time. However, Wi-Fi-based indoor action recognition under incremental learning faces two major challenges: catastrophic forgetting of previously learned knowledge and uncontrolled model expansion as new classes are added. To address these issues, we propose CAREC, a class-incremental framework that balances dynamic model expansion with efficient compression. CAREC adopts a multi-branch architecture to incorporate new classes without compromising previously learned features and leverages balanced knowledge distillation to compress the model by 80% while preserving performance. A data replay strategy retains representative samples of old classes, and a super-feature extractor enhances inter-class discrimination. Evaluated on the large-scale XRF55 dataset, CAREC reduces performance degradation by 51.82% over four incremental stages and achieves 67.84% accuracy with only 21.08 M parameters, 20% parameters compared to conventional approaches.

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