MyoFlow: Anchor-Tied Rectified Flow for HD-sEMG Gesture Recognition Across Sessions and Subjects
Published 16 Sept 2026arXiv:2609.17194
Updated 12 h ago · first seen 16 Sept 2026
paper_01M2MD8B4APW78HT6YK1XMD568
Abstract
High-density surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) gesture recognition supports prosthetic control, assistive robotics, and rehabilitation, but electrode re-donning and physiological variability cause distribution shifts that degrade accuracy across sessions and subjects. Generative HD-sEMG models primarily synthesize signals for augmentation; although diffusion models enhance representation learning, prediction still relies on a separate classifier. To tie learned dynamics to the decision rule, we propose MyoFlow, the first discriminative flow-matching framework for HD-sEMG recognition across sessions and subjects. It recasts classification as anchor-tied transport: a domain-conditioned rectified flow moves encoded windows toward gesture anchors that serve as transport targets and define the nearest-anchor decision geometry, enabling zero-shot prediction without an independent head. On the Hyser dataset, MyoFlow improves mean cross-session and cross-subject accuracy over the strongest diffusion-based baseline by 4.24\% and 6.37\%, respectively, and achieves 91.71\% mean zero-shot accuracy and 97.39\% mean few-shot accuracy across multiple days on the CEMHSEY dataset.
Organizations
Organizations 0
No organization stated. arXiv metadata does not carry affiliations; an organization is linked only when a model card or lab page cites the paper.
Models
Models introduced or described 0
Inbound described_by relations from model cards and documentation.
No model links this paper yet
Datasets
Datasets used 0
No dataset relation recorded.
Benchmarks
Benchmarks used 0
No benchmark relation recorded.
Code
Repositories & frameworks 0
No repository linked.
Timeline
Timeline 1
- New paperPaperMyoFlow: Anchor-Tied Rectified Flow for HD-sEMG Gesture Recognition Across Sessions and Subjects
New paper: MyoFlow: Anchor-Tied Rectified Flow for HD-sEMG Gesture Recognition Across Sessions and Subjects
arxiv
Sources
Sources 1
Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.