SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors

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Main Authors: Zhang, Yuwei, Ayush, Kumar, Qiao, Siyuan, Heydari, A. Ali, Narayanswamy, Girish, Xu, Maxwell A., Metwally, Ahmed A., Xu, Shawn, Garrison, Jake, Xu, Xuhai, Althoff, Tim, Liu, Yun, Kohli, Pushmeet, Zhan, Jiening, Malhotra, Mark, Patel, Shwetak, Mascolo, Cecilia, Liu, Xin, McDuff, Daniel, Yang, Yuzhe
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author Zhang, Yuwei
Ayush, Kumar
Qiao, Siyuan
Heydari, A. Ali
Narayanswamy, Girish
Xu, Maxwell A.
Metwally, Ahmed A.
Xu, Shawn
Garrison, Jake
Xu, Xuhai
Althoff, Tim
Liu, Yun
Kohli, Pushmeet
Zhan, Jiening
Malhotra, Mark
Patel, Shwetak
Mascolo, Cecilia
Liu, Xin
McDuff, Daniel
Yang, Yuzhe
author_facet Zhang, Yuwei
Ayush, Kumar
Qiao, Siyuan
Heydari, A. Ali
Narayanswamy, Girish
Xu, Maxwell A.
Metwally, Ahmed A.
Xu, Shawn
Garrison, Jake
Xu, Xuhai
Althoff, Tim
Liu, Yun
Kohli, Pushmeet
Zhan, Jiening
Malhotra, Mark
Patel, Shwetak
Mascolo, Cecilia
Liu, Xin
McDuff, Daniel
Yang, Yuzhe
contents We present SensorLM, a family of sensor-language foundation models that enable wearable sensor data understanding with natural language. Despite its pervasive nature, aligning and interpreting sensor data with language remains challenging due to the lack of paired, richly annotated sensor-text descriptions in uncurated, real-world wearable data. We introduce a hierarchical caption generation pipeline designed to capture statistical, structural, and semantic information from sensor data. This approach enabled the curation of the largest sensor-language dataset to date, comprising over 59.7 million hours of data from more than 103,000 people. Furthermore, SensorLM extends prominent multimodal pretraining architectures (e.g., CLIP, CoCa) and recovers them as specific variants within a generic architecture. Extensive experiments on real-world tasks in human activity analysis and healthcare verify the superior performance of SensorLM over state-of-the-art in zero-shot recognition, few-shot learning, and cross-modal retrieval. SensorLM also demonstrates intriguing capabilities including scaling behaviors, label efficiency, sensor captioning, and zero-shot generalization to unseen tasks.
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spellingShingle SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors
Zhang, Yuwei
Ayush, Kumar
Qiao, Siyuan
Heydari, A. Ali
Narayanswamy, Girish
Xu, Maxwell A.
Metwally, Ahmed A.
Xu, Shawn
Garrison, Jake
Xu, Xuhai
Althoff, Tim
Liu, Yun
Kohli, Pushmeet
Zhan, Jiening
Malhotra, Mark
Patel, Shwetak
Mascolo, Cecilia
Liu, Xin
McDuff, Daniel
Yang, Yuzhe
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
We present SensorLM, a family of sensor-language foundation models that enable wearable sensor data understanding with natural language. Despite its pervasive nature, aligning and interpreting sensor data with language remains challenging due to the lack of paired, richly annotated sensor-text descriptions in uncurated, real-world wearable data. We introduce a hierarchical caption generation pipeline designed to capture statistical, structural, and semantic information from sensor data. This approach enabled the curation of the largest sensor-language dataset to date, comprising over 59.7 million hours of data from more than 103,000 people. Furthermore, SensorLM extends prominent multimodal pretraining architectures (e.g., CLIP, CoCa) and recovers them as specific variants within a generic architecture. Extensive experiments on real-world tasks in human activity analysis and healthcare verify the superior performance of SensorLM over state-of-the-art in zero-shot recognition, few-shot learning, and cross-modal retrieval. SensorLM also demonstrates intriguing capabilities including scaling behaviors, label efficiency, sensor captioning, and zero-shot generalization to unseen tasks.
title SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09108