arXiv:2608.00200cs.AIcs.CL2026-08

让传感器推理过程可追溯,解释更可信。

TRACE-TS: Attribution-Grounded and Traceable Sensor-Language Reasoning for Human Activity Understanding

论文配图:TRACE-TS: Attribution-Grounded and Traceable Sensor-Language Reasoning for Human Activity Understanding
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  • 用归因定位关键传感信号区域,构建有证据来源的推理链
  • 在7个数据集上准确率84.43%,F1达81.24%,领先基线17.96%
  • 适合需要可解释行为理解的医疗、健康监测场景

可穿戴传感器捕捉细微运动模式,支持丰富的行为理解,但现有方法多将其简化为活动标签。基于大语言模型的方法虽能生成自然语言解释,但推理与原始信号关联弱,导致解释流畅却不可验证。我们提出TRACE-TS(可追溯的归因驱动传感器-语言推理),一种面向可穿戴时序数据的结构化、信号可落地推理框架。该框架利用专家分类器的归因结果识别关键时空传感器区域,构建具有明确证据溯源的有向无环图(DAG)推理链,并通过门控交叉注意力训练轻量语言模型生成此类链。推理时,模型联合输出活动预测与推理链,无需额外归因计算或教师指导。我们引入语义节点匹配(SNM)评估指标,以判别推理真实性,定位幻觉观察和被忽略的证据链断裂点。在七个可穿戴基准测试中,TRACE-TS在平均准确率(84.43%)与F1(81.24%)上表现最佳,优于最优的基于大语言模型基线17.96%。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Wearable sensors capture fine-grained motion patterns that support rich behavioral understanding, yet most existing methods reduce these signals to activity labels. Recent LM-based approaches generate natural-language explanations for sensor data, but their reasoning is weakly grounded in the underlying signal, leading to fluent yet unverifiable explanations. We introduce TRACE-TS (Traceable Reasoning with Attribution-Grounded Evidence), a framework for structured and signal-grounded reasoning over wearable time series. TRACE-TS uses attribution from an expert classifier to identify salient spatio-temporal sensor regions, uses them to construct DAG reasoning traces with explicit evidence provenance, and trains a compact language model to generate these traces through gated cross-attention over sensor memory tokens. At inference, the adapted model jointly outputs the activity prediction and its reasoning trace, without requiring attribution computation or teacher guidance. We introduce Semantic Node Match(SNM), an LLM-as-judge metric that diagnoses reasoning fidelity at the observation, inference, and synthesis levels, localizing hallucinated observations and broken evidence chains missed by standard NLG metrics. Across seven wearable benchmarks, TRACE-TS achieves the best average accuracy and F1 among all evaluated methods (84.43%/81.24%), and outperforms the best LLM-based baseline by 17.96% in F1. Our code is available at https://github.com/SparshRastogi/TRACE-TS.

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