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author Narayanswamy, Girish
Xu, Maxwell A.
Heydari, A. Ali
Abdel-Ghaffar, Samy
Guerard, Marius
Vaillancourt, Kara
Zhang, Zhihan
Garrison, Jake
Albuquerque, Levi
Spathis, Dimitris
Yu, Hong
Palangi, Hamid
Xu, Xuhai "Orson"
Barrett, David G. T.
Breda, Joseph
McGiffin, Jed
Kim, Yubin
Zhang, Yuwei
Rezaei, Naghmeh
Solomon, Samuel
Ahuja, Karan
Althoff, Tim
Sunshine, Jake
Poh, Ming-Zher
Yetton, Benjamin
Winbush, Ari
Allen, Nicholas B.
Rehg, James M.
Galatzer-Levy, Isaac
Liu, Yun
Hernandez, John
Pathak, Anupam
Heneghan, Conor
Yang, Yuzhe
Metwally, Ahmed A.
Kohli, Pushmeet
Malhotra, Mark
Patel, Shwetak
Liu, Xin
McDuff, Daniel
author_facet Narayanswamy, Girish
Xu, Maxwell A.
Heydari, A. Ali
Abdel-Ghaffar, Samy
Guerard, Marius
Vaillancourt, Kara
Zhang, Zhihan
Garrison, Jake
Albuquerque, Levi
Spathis, Dimitris
Yu, Hong
Palangi, Hamid
Xu, Xuhai "Orson"
Barrett, David G. T.
Breda, Joseph
McGiffin, Jed
Kim, Yubin
Zhang, Yuwei
Rezaei, Naghmeh
Solomon, Samuel
Ahuja, Karan
Althoff, Tim
Sunshine, Jake
Poh, Ming-Zher
Yetton, Benjamin
Winbush, Ari
Allen, Nicholas B.
Rehg, James M.
Galatzer-Levy, Isaac
Liu, Yun
Hernandez, John
Pathak, Anupam
Heneghan, Conor
Yang, Yuzhe
Metwally, Ahmed A.
Kohli, Pushmeet
Malhotra, Mark
Patel, Shwetak
Liu, Xin
McDuff, Daniel
contents While ubiquitous wearable sensors capture a wealth of behavioral and physiological information, effectively transforming these signals into personalized health insights is challenging. Specifically, converting low-level sensor data into representations capable of characterizing higher-level states is difficult due to high phenotypic diversity and variation in individual baseline health, physiology, and lifestyle factors. Moreover, collecting wearable data paired with health outcome annotations is laborious and expensive, and retrospective annotation remains practically unfeasible, contributing to a scarcity of data with high-quality labels. To overcome these limitations, we propose a foundation model for wearable health that is pretrained on more than one trillion minutes of unlabeled sensor signals drawn from a large cohort of five million participants. We demonstrate that the joint scaling of model capacity and pretraining data volume leads to systematic improvements in performance, as evaluated on a diverse set of 35 health prediction tasks, spanning cardiovascular, metabolic, sleep, and mental health, as well as lifestyle choices and demographic factors. We find that this population scale representation unlocks label-efficient few-shot learning and generative capabilities for robust daily metric estimation. To further leverage this learned representation, we deploy a classroom of LLM agents to autonomously search the space of downstream predictive heads built on the model embeddings, showing broad performance improvements that increase with LLM model capacity. Finally, we show how integrating these downstream predictors into a Personal Health Agent can support model responses that are more relevant, contextually aware, and safe, and we validate this via 1,860 ratings from a cohort of clinicians.
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spellingShingle Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data
Narayanswamy, Girish
Xu, Maxwell A.
Heydari, A. Ali
Abdel-Ghaffar, Samy
Guerard, Marius
Vaillancourt, Kara
Zhang, Zhihan
Garrison, Jake
Albuquerque, Levi
Spathis, Dimitris
Yu, Hong
Palangi, Hamid
Xu, Xuhai "Orson"
Barrett, David G. T.
Breda, Joseph
McGiffin, Jed
Kim, Yubin
Zhang, Yuwei
Rezaei, Naghmeh
Solomon, Samuel
Ahuja, Karan
Althoff, Tim
Sunshine, Jake
Poh, Ming-Zher
Yetton, Benjamin
Winbush, Ari
Allen, Nicholas B.
Rehg, James M.
Galatzer-Levy, Isaac
Liu, Yun
Hernandez, John
Pathak, Anupam
Heneghan, Conor
Yang, Yuzhe
Metwally, Ahmed A.
Kohli, Pushmeet
Malhotra, Mark
Patel, Shwetak
Liu, Xin
McDuff, Daniel
Artificial Intelligence
While ubiquitous wearable sensors capture a wealth of behavioral and physiological information, effectively transforming these signals into personalized health insights is challenging. Specifically, converting low-level sensor data into representations capable of characterizing higher-level states is difficult due to high phenotypic diversity and variation in individual baseline health, physiology, and lifestyle factors. Moreover, collecting wearable data paired with health outcome annotations is laborious and expensive, and retrospective annotation remains practically unfeasible, contributing to a scarcity of data with high-quality labels. To overcome these limitations, we propose a foundation model for wearable health that is pretrained on more than one trillion minutes of unlabeled sensor signals drawn from a large cohort of five million participants. We demonstrate that the joint scaling of model capacity and pretraining data volume leads to systematic improvements in performance, as evaluated on a diverse set of 35 health prediction tasks, spanning cardiovascular, metabolic, sleep, and mental health, as well as lifestyle choices and demographic factors. We find that this population scale representation unlocks label-efficient few-shot learning and generative capabilities for robust daily metric estimation. To further leverage this learned representation, we deploy a classroom of LLM agents to autonomously search the space of downstream predictive heads built on the model embeddings, showing broad performance improvements that increase with LLM model capacity. Finally, we show how integrating these downstream predictors into a Personal Health Agent can support model responses that are more relevant, contextually aware, and safe, and we validate this via 1,860 ratings from a cohort of clinicians.
title Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22759