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Keep Sensors in Check: Disentangling Country-Level Generalization Issues in Mobile Sensor-Based Models with Diversity Scores

Nanchen, Alexandre
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Meegahapola, Lakmal
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Droz, William
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January 1, 2023
Proceedings Of The 2023 Aaai/Acm Conference On Ai, Ethics, And Society, Aies 2023
AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES)

Machine learning models trained with passive sensor data from mobile devices can be used to perform various inferences pertaining to activity recognition, context awareness, and health and well-being. Prior work has improved inference performance through the use of multimodal sensors (inertial, GPS, proximity, app usage, etc.) or improved machine learning. In this context, a few studies shed light on critical issues relating to the poor cross-country generalization of models due to distributional shifts across countries. However, these studies have largely relied on inference performance as a means of studying generalization issues, failing to investigate whether the root cause of the problem is linked to specific sensor modalities (independent variables) or the target attribute (dependent variable). In this paper, we study this issue in complex activities of daily living (ADL) inference task, involving 12 classes, by using a multimodal, multi-country dataset collected from 689 participants across eight countries. We first show that the 'country of origin' of data is captured by sensors and can be inferred from each modality separately, with an average accuracy of 65%. We then propose two diversity scores (DS) that measure how a country differentiates from others w.r.t. sensor modalities or activities. Using these diversity scores, we observed that both individual sensor modalities and activities have the ability to differentiate countries. However, while many activities capture country differences, only the 'App usage' and 'Location' sensors can do so. By dissecting country-level diversity across dependent and independent variables, we provide a framework to better understand model generalization issues across countries and country-level diversity of sensing modalities.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3600211.3604688
Web of Science ID

WOS:001117838100019

Author(s)
Nanchen, Alexandre
Meegahapola, Lakmal
Droz, William
Gatica-Perez, Daniel  
Corporate authors
ACM
Date Issued

2023-01-01

Publisher

Assoc Computing Machinery

Publisher place

New York

Published in
Proceedings Of The 2023 Aaai/Acm Conference On Ai, Ethics, And Society, Aies 2023
ISBN of the book

979-8-4007-0231-0

Start page

217

End page

228

Subjects

Technology

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Country Diversity

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Data Diversity

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Generalization

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Country

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Smartphone Sensing

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Mobile Sensing

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Bias

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Distributional Shift

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LIDIAP  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES)

Montreal, CANADA

AUG 08-10, 2023

FunderGrant Number

European Union

823783

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February 20, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/204723
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