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Adiba Orzikulova

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MedMix: Specialization-Consistent Federated Sparse MoEs under Modality Heterogeneity

Federated multimodal medical AI faces modality heterogeneity at both the client and sample levels: clients may systematically lack access to specific modality types, while individual records within the same client may contain different partial modality subsets. Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures are a promising remedy for modality-adaptive computation, but their use in federated learning is fragile under cross-client modality heterogeneity, where locally learned routing policies can diverge across clients and drive experts toward incompatible specializations. Different clients may assign the same observed modality configuration to different experts, or train similarly indexed experts on different missing-modality configurations, causing standard aggregation to misalign or overwrite the expert specialization that sparse MoEs are intended to learn. To address this challenge, we propose MedMix, a semantic-alignment framework for federated multimodal sparse MoEs that coordinates cross-client routing and expert specialization using modality context. At the client side, MedMix uses modality-context-aware routing to guide expert selection using each token's modality identity, position, and incompleteness context. Across clients, it uses consensus-guided routing alignment to construct server-side consensus anchors for shared modality patterns and align local routing distributions across clients. Complementing these routing mechanisms, client-adaptive expert aggregation leverages client-specific modality-pattern prototypes to match and aggregate functionally similar experts across clients. Experiments on real-world multimodal medical datasets show that MedMix achieves the best average F1 across diverse modality heterogeneity and modality incompleteness settings, with especially clear gains under severe heterogeneity.

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Multimodal Federated Learning under Dual-Axis Modality Missingness

Multimodal federated learning (FL) supports collaborative modeling in privacy-sensitive health-sensing and medical settings, but realistic deployments often exhibit dual-axis modality missingness: clients have different modality sets, and individual samples may contain only subsets of the modalities available locally. Existing methods typically address these two axes separately. We propose Flux, a multimodal federated learning framework built around two complementary components. First, modality-aware confidence tempering learns sample-specific confidence for each modality through mask-aware unimodal supervision and fuses the confidence estimates from observed modalities into a sample-adaptive temperature that adjusts predictive sharpness according to evidence quality and completeness. Second, gradient-decoupled private adaptation applies this temperature only to a client-private prediction pathway, while training the shared federated model with a standard, untempered objective. This enables sample-specific, client-local confidence adaptation without allowing confidence-dependent gradients to perturb shared representation learning. Across four multimodal datasets, Flux achieves the highest average macro-F1 on every dataset, outperforming the strongest dataset-specific baseline by 0.8~2.2 points and by 1.6 points on average. Additional analyses demonstrate favorable calibration, temperature sensitivity to both modality missingness and input corruption, and more stable shared optimization under private-only tempering. Our code is available at https://github.com/AdibaOrz/Flux.

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Federated Learning for Time-Series Healthcare Sensing with Incomplete Modalities

Many healthcare sensing applications utilize multimodal time-series data from sensors embedded in mobile and wearable devices. Federated Learning (FL), with its privacy-preserving advantages, is particularly well-suited for health applications. However, most multimodal FL methods assume the availability of complete modality data for local training, which is often unrealistic. Moreover, recent approaches tackling incomplete modalities scale poorly and become inefficient as the number of modalities increases. To address these limitations, we propose FLISM, an efficient FL training algorithm with incomplete sensing modalities while maintaining high accuracy. FLISM employs three key techniques: (1) modality-invariant representation learning to extract effective features from clients with a diverse set of modalities, (2) modality quality-aware aggregation to prioritize contributions from clients with higher-quality modality data, and (3) global-aligned knowledge distillation to reduce local update shifts caused by modality differences. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets show that FLISM not only achieves high accuracy but is also faster and more efficient compared with state-of-the-art methods handling incomplete modality problems in FL. We release the code as open-source at https://github.com/AdibaOrz/FLISM.

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Time2Stop: Adaptive and Explainable Human-AI Loop for Smartphone Overuse Intervention

Despite a rich history of investigating smartphone overuse intervention techniques, AI-based just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) methods for overuse reduction are lacking. We develop Time2Stop, an intelligent, adaptive, and explainable JITAI system that leverages machine learning to identify optimal intervention timings, introduces interventions with transparent AI explanations, and collects user feedback to establish a human-AI loop and adapt the intervention model over time. We conducted an 8-week field experiment (N=71) to evaluate the effectiveness of both the adaptation and explanation aspects of Time2Stop. Our results indicate that our adaptive models significantly outperform the baseline methods on intervention accuracy (>32.8\% relatively) and receptivity (>8.0\%). In addition, incorporating explanations further enhances the effectiveness by 53.8\% and 11.4\% on accuracy and receptivity, respectively. Moreover, Time2Stop significantly reduces overuse, decreasing app visit frequency by 7.0$\sim$8.9\%. Our subjective data also echoed these quantitative measures. Participants preferred the adaptive interventions and rated the system highly on intervention time accuracy, effectiveness, and level of trust. We envision our work can inspire future research on JITAI systems with a human-AI loop to evolve with users.

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Time-bound Contextual Bio-ID Generation for Minimalist Wearables

As wearable devices become increasingly miniaturized and powerful, a new opportunity arises for instant and dynamic device-to-device collaboration and human-to-device interaction. However, this progress presents a unique challenge: these minimalist wearables lack inherent mechanisms for real-time authentication, posing significant risks to data privacy and overall security. To address this, we introduce Proteus that realizes an innovative concept of time-bound contextual bio-IDs, which are generated from on-device sensor data and embedded into a common latent space. These bio-IDs act as a time-bound unique user identifier that can be used to identify the wearer in a certain context. Proteus enables dynamic and contextual device collaboration as well as robust human-to-device interaction. Our evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, particularly in the context of minimalist wearables.

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DAPPER: Label-Free Performance Estimation after Personalization for Heterogeneous Mobile Sensing

Many applications utilize sensors in mobile devices and machine learning to provide novel services. However, various factors such as different users, devices, and environments impact the performance of such applications, thus making the domain shift (i.e., distributional shift between the training domain and the target domain) a critical issue in mobile sensing. Despite attempts in domain adaptation to solve this challenging problem, their performance is unreliable due to the complex interplay among diverse factors. In principle, the performance uncertainty can be identified and redeemed by performance validation with ground-truth labels. However, it is infeasible for every user to collect high-quality, sufficient labeled data. To address the issue, we present DAPPER (Domain AdaPtation Performance EstimatoR) that estimates the adaptation performance in a target domain with only unlabeled target data. Our key idea is to approximate the model performance based on the mutual information between the model inputs and corresponding outputs. Our evaluation with four real-world sensing datasets compared against six baselines shows that on average, DAPPER outperforms the state-of-the-art baseline by 39.8% in estimation accuracy. Moreover, our on-device experiment shows that DAPPER achieves up to 396X less computation overhead compared with the baselines.

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