FedFitTech: A Baseline in Federated Learning for Fitness Tracking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16840v1
• Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:43:39 GMT
• Title: FedFitTech: A Baseline in Federated Learning for Fitness Tracking
• Authors: Zeyneddin Oz, Shreyas Korde, Marius Bock, Kristof Van Laerhoven,
• Abstract summary: We present the FedFitTech baseline, which is publicly available and widely used by both industry and academic researchers.<n>This paper presents a case study that implements a system based on the FedFitTech baseline, incorporating a client-side early stopping strategy.<n>Results show that this reduces overall redundant communications by 13 percent, while maintaining the overall recognition performance at a negligible recognition cost by 1 percent.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Rapid evolution of sensors and resource-efficient machine learning models have spurred the widespread adoption of wearable fitness tracking devices. Equipped with inertial sensors, such devices can continuously capture physical movements for fitness technology (FitTech), enabling applications from sports optimization to preventive healthcare. Traditional centralized learning approaches to detect fitness activities struggle with privacy concerns, regulatory constraints, and communication inefficiencies. In contrast, Federated Learning (FL) enables a decentralized model training by communicating model updates rather than private wearable sensor data. Applying FL to FitTech presents unique challenges, such as data imbalance, lack of labelled data, heterogeneous user activity patterns, and trade-offs between personalization and generalization. To simplify research on FitTech in FL, we present the FedFitTech baseline, under the Flower framework, which is publicly available and widely used by both industry and academic researchers. Additionally, to illustrate its usage, this paper presents a case study that implements a system based on the FedFitTech baseline, incorporating a client-side early stopping strategy and comparing the results. For instance, this system allows wearable devices to optimize the trade-off between capturing common fitness activity patterns and preserving individuals' nuances, thereby enhancing both the scalability and efficiency of privacy-aware fitness tracking applications. Results show that this reduces overall redundant communications by 13 percent, while maintaining the overall recognition performance at a negligible recognition cost by 1 percent. Thus, FedFitTech baseline creates a foundation for a wide range of new research and development opportunities in FitTech, and it is available as open-source at: https://github.com/adap/flower/tree/main/baselines/fedfittech

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