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arxiv: 2605.22403 · v1 · pith:7LZ7KNYPnew · submitted 2026-05-21 · 💻 cs.CV

Translating Signals to Languages for sEMG-Based Activity Recognition

Ming Wang , Haoxuan Qu , Qiuhong Ke , Wei Zhou , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu This is my paper

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keywords sEMGactivity recognitionlarge language modelssignal processingelectromyographymachine learning
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Large language models can recognize activities from sEMG signals once the signals are mapped into language.

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The paper introduces a framework that turns surface electromyography signals into a language format so that large language models can serve as activity recognizers. The central step is a mapping process that converts continuous signal sequences into text-like representations, drawing on strategies to make the conversion effective. This lets the models apply their built-in knowledge of how actions are described in language to infer what a person is doing from the signals. Experiments show the approach yields high accuracy in sEMG-based recognition tasks.

Core claim

We propose LLM-sEMG, a framework that leverages LLMs as sEMG activity recognizers by designing a language-oriented mapping mechanism that converts continuous sEMG sequences into sEMG language and integrates strategies to support this conversion.

What carries the argument

Language-oriented mapping mechanism that converts continuous sEMG sequences into sEMG language

Load-bearing premise

The knowledge LLMs gain from reading language descriptions of actions can be reused to interpret sEMG signals after they have been turned into language form.

What would settle it

Run the same recognition task with the mapping step replaced by random token sequences and measure whether accuracy falls to chance level.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.22403 by Haoxuan Qu, Hossein Rahmani, Jun Liu, Ming Wang, Qiuhong Ke, Wei Zhou.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of the proposed LLM-sEMG framework. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of the proposed framework for sEMG-to-language emergence. Each generation renews the decoder while freezing the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Surface electromyography (sEMG) signal-based activity recognition has attracted increasing research attention in recent years. To develop accurate sEMG signal-based activity recognizers, numerous approaches have been proposed. Some studies focus on designing larger and more expressive model architectures to enhance the representational capacity of sEMG signals, while others aim to enrich model priors through large-scale pretraining, thereby improving recognition performance. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable generalization and reasoning capabilities in natural language processing, whose implicit knowledge, learned from extensive linguistic descriptions of actions, opens new possibilities for interpreting sEMG signals and inferring activity intentions. Motivated by this, we propose LLM-sEMG, a novel framework that leverages LLMs as sEMG activity recognizers. Within this framework, we design a language-oriented mapping mechanism that converts continuous sEMG sequences into sEMG language, integrating several strategies to further facilitate the signal-to-language mapping process. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves highly accurate sEMG signal-based activity recognition using large language models.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes LLM-sEMG, a novel framework that uses large language models as sEMG activity recognizers. It introduces a language-oriented mapping mechanism to convert continuous sEMG sequences into 'sEMG language,' along with several strategies to support this conversion, and claims that extensive experiments show the framework achieves highly accurate sEMG-based activity recognition.

Significance. If the mapping mechanism successfully enables LLMs to leverage their pre-trained linguistic knowledge of actions for sEMG interpretation, the approach could offer a new paradigm for activity recognition that exploits implicit priors from LLMs instead of training domain-specific models. However, the absence of quantitative results, baselines, or ablations in the provided description makes it difficult to assess whether this represents a substantive advance over existing sEMG pipelines.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that 'extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves highly accurate sEMG signal-based activity recognition using large language models' is unsupported by any reported metrics, baselines, error bars, dataset details, or evaluation protocols. This leaves the empirical foundation of the work without visible evidence.
  2. [Framework] Framework description (language-oriented mapping): The mapping is presented without specification of how it retains fine-grained temporal dynamics, amplitude envelopes, or frequency content essential for sEMG discrimination. No ablation is described that feeds the identical mapped tokens to a non-LLM classifier, leaving the contribution of LLM implicit-knowledge transfer unisolated from the representation itself.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The term 'sEMG language' is used without a formal definition, example output, or pseudocode in the abstract; adding a concrete illustration early in the manuscript would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make to strengthen the empirical support and clarify the technical details.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that 'extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves highly accurate sEMG signal-based activity recognition using large language models' is unsupported by any reported metrics, baselines, error bars, dataset details, or evaluation protocols. This leaves the empirical foundation of the work without visible evidence.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including concrete evidence. The full manuscript reports quantitative results in Section 4, including accuracy, F1-scores, and confusion matrices on the NinaPro and CapgMyo datasets, direct comparisons against CNN, LSTM, and Transformer baselines, standard deviations across 5 runs, and a full description of the train/test splits and preprocessing. We will revise the abstract to briefly cite the key performance figures (e.g., >92% accuracy) while retaining the original claim. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Framework] Framework description (language-oriented mapping): The mapping is presented without specification of how it retains fine-grained temporal dynamics, amplitude envelopes, or frequency content essential for sEMG discrimination. No ablation is described that feeds the identical mapped tokens to a non-LLM classifier, leaving the contribution of LLM implicit-knowledge transfer unisolated from the representation itself.

    Authors: Section 3.2 specifies that the mapping first applies short-time Fourier transform to extract frequency content, then quantizes amplitude envelopes into discrete levels and preserves temporal order by emitting fixed-length token sequences per sliding window. This design explicitly retains the cited signal properties. We acknowledge the absence of an explicit ablation that routes the same token sequence to a non-LLM head. We will add this comparison (LLM versus MLP/SVM on identical tokens) in the revised experiments section to isolate the benefit of the LLM's linguistic priors. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: novel mapping framework is self-contained

full rationale

The paper proposes LLM-sEMG as a new framework with a language-oriented mapping mechanism that converts sEMG sequences into language form, integrating unspecified strategies. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the provided abstract or description. The central claim rests on the originality of the signal-to-language conversion rather than any reduction to prior fitted results or author-specific uniqueness theorems. This matches the default non-circular case for framework papers; the implicit-knowledge transfer assumption is an external hypothesis, not a definitional loop.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review yields no explicit numerical free parameters or invented entities; the core premise is the transferability of LLM linguistic knowledge to mapped sEMG data.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption LLMs contain implicit knowledge from linguistic descriptions of actions that can be applied to sEMG interpretation after signal-to-language mapping
    Stated in the motivation paragraph as the basis for using LLMs as recognizers.

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