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Dywave: Event-Aligned Dynamic Tokenization for Heterogeneous IoT Sensing Signal

Tomoyoshi Kimura , Denizhan Kara , Jinyang Li , Hongjue Zhao , Yigong Hu , Yizhuo Chen , Xiaomin Ouyang , Shengzhong Liu
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classification 💻 cs.LG cs.AI
keywords dynamic tokenizationwavelet decompositionIoT sensing signalsevent alignmentsequence modelsactivity recognitionstress assessment
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Dywave uses wavelet decomposition to align tokens with semantic events in IoT signals.

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The paper introduces Dywave to handle the non-stationary and multi-scale nature of heterogeneous IoT sensing signals collected for tasks such as activity recognition and stress assessment. Standard fixed tokenization fails to respect the intrinsic temporal structures and physical events in these signals, leading to inefficient and less accurate models. Dywave applies wavelet-based hierarchical decomposition to detect meaningful boundaries, compresses redundant intervals, and preserves coherence to produce shorter token sequences. On five real-world datasets the approach raises accuracy by up to 12 percent while cutting token lengths by as much as 75 percent across common sequence models and adds robustness to domain shifts.

Core claim

Dywave constructs compact input representations for heterogeneous IoT sensing signals by leveraging wavelet-based hierarchical decomposition to identify meaningful temporal boundaries that correspond to underlying semantic events, adaptively compresses redundant intervals while preserving temporal coherence, and thereby improves accuracy up to 12 percent while reducing token lengths up to 75 percent on activity recognition, stress assessment, and nearby object detection tasks.

What carries the argument

Wavelet-based hierarchical decomposition that identifies event-aligned temporal boundaries and adaptively compresses redundant intervals in non-stationary signals.

If this is right

  • Mainstream sequence models receive shorter inputs and achieve up to 12 percent higher accuracy on IoT sensing tasks.
  • Computational cost drops because token length is reduced by up to 75 percent.
  • The same framework maintains performance across domain shifts and varying sequence lengths without retraining the tokenizer.
  • One set of wavelet rules works across activity recognition, stress assessment, and object detection.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same boundary-finding principle could be tested on other non-stationary time series such as audio or physiological recordings.
  • Edge devices could run longer monitoring sessions with the shorter token streams before needing to offload data.
  • Replacing fixed wavelets with signal-adaptive basis selection might further reduce token length on particular sensor types.

Load-bearing premise

Wavelet-based hierarchical decomposition can reliably identify meaningful temporal boundaries that correspond to underlying semantic events in heterogeneous IoT signals without task-specific tuning.

What would settle it

A controlled experiment on signals where wavelet boundaries are forced to misalign with known semantic events, checking whether the reported accuracy and efficiency gains disappear.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.14014 by Denizhan Kara, Hongjue Zhao, Jinyang Li, Shengzhong Liu, Tarek Abdelzaher, Tomoyoshi Kimura, Xiaomin Ouyang, Yigong Hu, Yizhuo Chen.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Ego4D (HAR) raw signal examples. Signal events are manually annotated with red bounding boxes. using IMU signals, brief motion gestures (e.g., waving) may occur within a second, while complex activities (e.g., walking) can span tens of seconds and vary in intensity. Moreover, real-world signals exhibit highly irregular infor￾mation density, with quiescent intervals alternating with short bursts of salient … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of Dywave. ferent users produce signals that vary greatly in temporal structure and intensity. To illustrate this variability, Fig￾ure 1 visualizes 30-second accelerometer samples from the Ego4D human activity recognition dataset (Grauman et al., 2022), comparing signals of cleaning activity across users and time periods, as well as the reading activity. Even within the same activity, signal patte… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Short-context performance vs. different parameters. is a fixed-length time-series segment used for short- and long-context classification. Baselines. We consider 5 baselines compatible with various backbones: PatchTST (Nie et al., 2023), DropPatch (Qiu et al., 2025), MedFormer (Wang et al., 2024), WaveTo￾ken (Masserano et al., 2025), and MultiPatch (Naghashi et al., 2025). We evaluate them using two sequen… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Short-context Accuracy vs. Token with the Transformer encoder. Accuracy F1 Score PAMAP2 0.65 0.70 0.75 0.80 0.85 Accuracy F1 Score RWHAR 0.70 0.75 0.80 0.85 0.90 PatchTST Acc Dywave Acc PatchTST Gyr Dywave Gyr PatchTST Dywave [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Multimodal classification accuracy. eters, requiring extensive grid search, while Dywave uses learnable, instance-specific segmentation. Moreover, Wavetoken performs notably worse than other baselines. Discretizing the input into quantized token IDs appears ill-suited for high-frequency sensing data with rich dynamics, as it disrupts the fine-grained amplitude and tem￾poral coherence essential for signal c… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Long-context classification performance with the Transformer encoder. (a) MOD - Audio (b) Ego4D - Accelerometer [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Long-context token distribution with the Transformer encoder. on Ego4D, where 30-second sequences contain multiple heterogeneous sub-events (posture transitions, hand-object interactions, environmental perturbations). Fixed-size tok￾enization mixes unrelated actions and obscures fine-grained transitions, while Dywave dynamically identifies semantic boundaries that align with activity transitions, enabling … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: On-device (Raspberry Pi 4) Profiling. context settings but sacrifices efficiency with a much higher token count. In long-context settings (MOD audio), it re￾duces input length but suffers greater accuracy degradation. This implies non-anchor segments contain meaningful cues and should not be discarded. Dynamic fusion is crucial for achieving compact representations without sacrificing accu￾racy. Using spec… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Inference robustness with random noise injection. with heterogeneous dynamics, Dywave’s token compression substantially reduces backbone computation, and the advan￾tage grows with longer context windows or larger encoder models. This makes Dywave particularly well-suited for real-world deployments where signals are long, heteroge￾neous, and resource constraints are tight. 4.7. Inference Noise Robustness [… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Physics-Informed Hierarchical Embedding Module. Here, Wfj denote the discrete wavelet coefficients at level j ∈ [1, J], Aj the corresponding approximations, ehj and gej the rescaled wavelet and scaling filters, and Lj the effective filter length. Since MODWT is undecimated, both dXj and Aj preserve the full temporal resolution of the original sequence L. The recursive formulation produces a hierarchy of a… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Temporal Anchor Formation Module. capture abrupt, high-frequency transients such as wrist flicks or foot impacts, while the context embedding EV interprets these as transitions between broader activity phases, such as moving from walking to standing or from wiping to resting. To integrate these complementary views, we fuse the two embeddings into a unified hierarchical embedding: E F = E U ||E V , EF ∈ R … view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Temporal Fusion Module. uniform patching wastes computation on such redundant information. Dynamic temporal fusion addresses this by adaptively compressing coherent regions while preserving semantic integrity at event boundaries [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Sensitivity analysis on anchor budget. 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 rec 0.83 0.84 0.85 0.86 Accuracy RWHAR-Accuracy 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 rec 30 40 50 60 # Tokens RWHAR-#Tokens 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 rec 0.74 0.76 0.78 0.80 0.82 Accuracy PAMAP2-Accuracy 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 rec 2.0 2.2 2.4 2.6 # Tokens PAMAP2-#Tokens [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Sensitivity analysis on reconstruction loss λrec. reduction in input sequence length. The gap is more significant with long-context inputs in Ego4D. In these scenarios, PatchTST produces hundreds of tokens, leading to rapidly increasing latency with sequence length. In contrast, Dywave adaptively compresses long stationary regions into a small number of semantically coherent input tokens with up to an ord… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Ego4D Boundary Visualization. Signal events are manually annotated with red bounding boxes. different users perform the same activity (row 2), with user-dependent rhythms and intensities. Comparing different activities (row 3) further highlights changes in temporal density and dynamic range, reflecting the inherent heterogeneity of real-world motion across the samples. Under such diverse conditions, token… view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Example of micro-activity decomposition with Dywave on Ego4D. conducts a qualitative case study of Dywave’s capability in mitigating this challenge on the Ego4D dataset (Grauman et al., 2022), which provides synchronized egocentric video and IMU signals during daily activities such as cooking, crafting, and household management. We extract 15-second continuous IMU segments and apply Dywave to the accelero… view at source ↗
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Internet of Things (IoT) systems continuously collect heterogeneous sensing signals from ubiquitous sensors to support intelligent applications such as human activity analysis, emotion monitoring, and environmental perception. These signals are inherently non-stationary and multi-scale, posing unique challenges for standard tokenization techniques. This paper proposes Dywave, a dynamic tokenization framework for IoT sensing signals that constructs compact input representations aligned with intrinsic temporal structures and underlying physical events. Dywave leverages wavelet-based hierarchical decomposition, identifies meaningful temporal boundaries corresponding to underlying semantic events, and adaptively compresses redundant intervals while preserving temporal coherence. Extensive evaluations on five real-world IoT sensing datasets across activity recognition, stress assessment, and nearby object detection demonstrate that Dywave outperforms state-of-the-art methods by up to 12% in accuracy, while improving computational efficiency by reducing input token lengths by up to 75% across mainstream sequence models. Moreover, Dywave exhibits improved robustness to domain shifts and varying sequence lengths.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes Dywave, an event-aligned dynamic tokenization framework for heterogeneous IoT sensing signals. It employs wavelet-based hierarchical decomposition to detect meaningful temporal boundaries corresponding to semantic events and adaptively compresses redundant intervals to create compact representations for sequence models. The approach is evaluated on five real-world datasets for tasks including activity recognition, stress assessment, and nearby object detection, claiming up to 12% accuracy improvement and 75% reduction in token lengths compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Significance. If the results hold and the method proves to be general without heavy task-specific tuning, it would represent a meaningful advance in handling non-stationary multi-scale signals in IoT applications by improving both accuracy and efficiency of downstream models. The emphasis on automatic alignment with physical events is a strength, but the current presentation lacks the necessary details to fully assess its novelty and robustness.

major comments (3)
  1. [Method section (likely §3)] The description of how wavelet hierarchical decomposition identifies temporal boundaries lacks specific details on the wavelet family used, decomposition levels, thresholding criteria, and boundary merging rules. Without these, it is unclear whether the process is fully automatic or involves implicit per-dataset choices that could limit the claimed generality.
  2. [Experiments (likely §5)] The reported performance gains (up to 12% accuracy, 75% token reduction) are given without error bars, p-values from statistical tests, details on train/validation/test splits, or ablation studies isolating the contribution of the event alignment component. This makes it difficult to determine if the improvements are statistically significant and attributable to the proposed method.
  3. [§4 or related] There is no analysis or sensitivity study on the impact of different wavelet choices or decomposition depths on the boundary detection, which is central to the weakest assumption in the approach.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract does not specify the names of the five IoT datasets or provide citations to them.
  2. [Throughout] Some notation for token lengths and compression ratios could be clarified with equations for better reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major point below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to improve reproducibility, statistical rigor, and analysis of design choices.

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  1. Referee: The description of how wavelet hierarchical decomposition identifies temporal boundaries lacks specific details on the wavelet family used, decomposition levels, thresholding criteria, and boundary merging rules. Without these, it is unclear whether the process is fully automatic or involves implicit per-dataset choices that could limit the claimed generality.

    Authors: We agree that the current description is insufficient for full reproducibility. In the revised Section 3 we will explicitly state the wavelet family (Daubechies db4), decomposition depth (4 levels), thresholding rule (universal threshold scaled by median absolute deviation of the detail coefficients), and boundary merging criterion (merge adjacent intervals shorter than 8 samples). These parameters are fixed once for the entire framework and applied uniformly to all five datasets with no per-dataset retuning, thereby supporting the generality claim. Pseudocode for the full boundary detection procedure will also be added. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The reported performance gains (up to 12% accuracy, 75% token reduction) are given without error bars, p-values from statistical tests, details on train/validation/test splits, or ablation studies isolating the contribution of the event alignment component. This makes it difficult to determine if the improvements are statistically significant and attributable to the proposed method.

    Authors: We accept that stronger statistical evidence is required. The revised experiments section will report mean accuracy and token length together with standard deviation over five independent runs using different random seeds. Paired t-test p-values will be provided for all comparisons against baselines. Dataset splits will be documented as 60/20/20 chronological partitions (train/val/test) to preserve temporal structure. We will also add ablation experiments that disable the event-alignment stage while keeping all other components fixed, thereby isolating its contribution to the observed gains. revision: yes

  3. Referee: There is no analysis or sensitivity study on the impact of different wavelet choices or decomposition depths on the boundary detection, which is central to the weakest assumption in the approach.

    Authors: We will insert a dedicated sensitivity subsection in the experiments. It will evaluate boundary-detection F1 score against human-annotated events and downstream task accuracy for three wavelet families (Haar, db4, Symlet-4) and decomposition depths ranging from 2 to 6. The study will show that performance remains stable for depths 3–5 and that db4 at depth 4 yields the best trade-off, while still documenting the modest degradation outside this range. This analysis will directly address the robustness of the core assumption. revision: yes

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The paper presents Dywave as a framework that applies standard wavelet-based hierarchical decomposition to identify temporal boundaries in IoT signals, followed by adaptive compression. No equations, derivations, or first-principles results are described that reduce the claimed accuracy gains or token reductions to quantities defined by fitted parameters or self-referential definitions. The central claims rest on empirical evaluations across five real-world datasets rather than any closed-loop mathematical construction or load-bearing self-citation chain. The approach is characterized as leveraging existing wavelet tools plus adaptive rules without evidence of per-dataset tuning being smuggled in as an automatic property by construction. This is a standard empirical proposal with no detectable circularity in its stated method.

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Abstract-only review; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The method implicitly assumes standard wavelet properties and the existence of detectable semantic events in raw signals.

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