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Main Authors: He, ZhengXiao, Wen, Jinghao, Li, Huayu, Tian, Siyuan, Li, Ao
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14184
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author He, ZhengXiao
Wen, Jinghao
Li, Huayu
Tian, Siyuan
Li, Ao
author_facet He, ZhengXiao
Wen, Jinghao
Li, Huayu
Tian, Siyuan
Li, Ao
contents We present a novel and interpretable framework for electrocardiogram (ECG)-based disease detection that combines hyperdimensional computing (HDC) with learnable neural encoding. Unlike conventional HDC approaches that rely on static, random projections, our method introduces a rhythm-aware and trainable encoding pipeline based on RR intervals, a physiological signal segmentation strategy that aligns with cardiac cycles. The core of our design is a neural-distilled HDC architecture, featuring a learnable RR-block encoder and a BinaryLinear hyperdimensional projection layer, optimized jointly with cross-entropy and proxy-based metric loss. This hybrid framework preserves the symbolic interpretability of HDC while enabling task-adaptive representation learning. Experiments on Apnea-ECG and PTB-XL demonstrate that our model significantly outperforms traditional HDC and classical ML baselines, achieving 73.09\% precision and an F1 score of 0.626 on Apnea-ECG, with comparable robustness on PTB-XL. Our framework offers an efficient and scalable solution for edge-compatible ECG classification, with strong potential for interpretable and personalized health monitoring.
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spellingShingle NeuroHD-RA: Neural-distilled Hyperdimensional Model with Rhythm Alignment
He, ZhengXiao
Wen, Jinghao
Li, Huayu
Tian, Siyuan
Li, Ao
Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
We present a novel and interpretable framework for electrocardiogram (ECG)-based disease detection that combines hyperdimensional computing (HDC) with learnable neural encoding. Unlike conventional HDC approaches that rely on static, random projections, our method introduces a rhythm-aware and trainable encoding pipeline based on RR intervals, a physiological signal segmentation strategy that aligns with cardiac cycles. The core of our design is a neural-distilled HDC architecture, featuring a learnable RR-block encoder and a BinaryLinear hyperdimensional projection layer, optimized jointly with cross-entropy and proxy-based metric loss. This hybrid framework preserves the symbolic interpretability of HDC while enabling task-adaptive representation learning. Experiments on Apnea-ECG and PTB-XL demonstrate that our model significantly outperforms traditional HDC and classical ML baselines, achieving 73.09\% precision and an F1 score of 0.626 on Apnea-ECG, with comparable robustness on PTB-XL. Our framework offers an efficient and scalable solution for edge-compatible ECG classification, with strong potential for interpretable and personalized health monitoring.
title NeuroHD-RA: Neural-distilled Hyperdimensional Model with Rhythm Alignment
topic Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14184