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Main Authors: Verrier, Kyle, Nazaret, Achille, Futoma, Joseph, Miller, Andrew C., Sapiro, Guillermo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19260
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  • Whether wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) contains dietary information remains unknown. We trained a language model on 1.1M meals to predict meal descriptions from PPG, aligning PPG to text. PPG nontrivially predicts meal content; predictability decreases for PPGs farther from meals. This transfers to dietary tasks: PPG increases AUC by 11% for intake and satiety across held-out and independent cohorts, with gains robust to text degradation. Wearable PPG may enable passive dietary monitoring.