arXiv Machine Learning

Deep Generalised Mixed Models: a Novel Neural Network Structure for Analysing Hierarchical Data

arXiv:2608. 05930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The experience sampling method (ESM) is a longitudinal research design where participants report their thoughts, emotional states and behaviours multiple times a day.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Integrating Neural Encoders in Bayesian Generalized Linear Mixed Models for Multimodal Data

arXiv:2607. 04647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scalable Bayesian inference for generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) provides uncertainty-aware analysis of correlated longitudinal data, but existing scalable approaches largely assume low-dimensional tabular predictors and do not directly accommodate high-dimensional modalities such as images and text.

By Yuankang Zhao, Youngsoo Baek, Felipe A. Medeiros, Samuel Berchuck, Matthew M. Engelhard
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Bridging the Gap in ECG-Based Emotion Recognition: A Unified Evaluation of Deep Learning Models

The paper evaluates deep learning models for electrocardiogram‑based emotion recognition, focusing on generalization across datasets rather than dataset‑specific performance. It introduces two open‑source tools—ARRC for standardized benchmarking and ARDT for inter‑dataset training—to merge three public AER datasets (CUADS, ASCERTAIN, DREAMER) into a more variable benchmark. Using these tools, the authors compare three prominent deep learning architectures and two CNN baselines with hyperparameter tuning and 10‑fold cross‑validation, revealing trade‑offs between accuracy and model complexity and providing a reproducible benchmark for future research.

By Timothy C Sweeney-Fanelli, Ajan Ahmed, Masudul Imtiaz
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data

arXiv:2605. 22759v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While ubiquitous wearable sensors capture a wealth of behavioral and physiological information, effectively transforming these signals into personalized health insights is challenging.

By Girish Narayanswamy, Maxwell A. Xu, A. Ali Heydari, Samy Abdel-Ghaffar, Marius Guerard, Kara Vaillancourt, Zhihan Zhang, Jake Garrison, Levi Albuquerque, Dimitris Spathis, Hong Yu, Hamid Palangi, Xuhai "Orson" Xu, David G. T. Barrett, Joseph Breda, Jed McGiffin, Yubin Kim, Yuwei Zhang, Naghmeh Rezaei, Samuel Solomon, Karan Ahuja, Tim Althoff, Jake Sunshine, Ming-Zher Poh, Benjamin Yetton, Ari Winbush, Nicholas B. Allen, James M. Rehg, Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Yun Liu, John Hernandez, Anupam Pathak, Conor Heneghan, Yuzhe Yang, Ahmed A. Metwally, Pushmeet Kohli, Mark Malhotra, Shwetak Patel, Xin Liu, Daniel McDuff
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Fitting Large Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models Using Variational Expectation Maximization

The paper introduces a scalable Variational Expectation Maximization (VEM) algorithm for fitting large Nonlinear Mixed Effects (NLME) models, addressing computational challenges that arise as parameter and random‑effect counts grow. VEM leverages flexible variational families and reverse‑mode automatic differentiation to efficiently maximize the marginal likelihood, enabling fitting of models with over 15,000 population parameters. Experiments using the Pumas software demonstrate VEM’s ability to improve log‑likelihood over many iterations while remaining computationally feasible, whereas traditional FOCE methods fail to complete even a single iteration for similarly sized models.

By Mohamed Tarek, Pedro Afonso
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Gradient Boosted Mixed Models: Flexible Estimation of Mean and Variance Components for Clustered Data

arXiv:2511. 00217v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Gradient Boosted Mixed Models (GBMixed), a framework which extends boosting to clustered data by jointly modeling the mean and variance components in a linear mixed model via likelihood-based gradients.

By Mitchell L. Prevett, Francis K. C. Hui, Zhi Yang Tho, A. H. Welsh, Anton H. Westveld
arXiv AI
Sep 10

NOAH: Learning the Full Patient Journey. A Longitudinal Multimodal Time-Aware Model for Representation and Forecasting

NOAH is a generative transformer that learns the full multimodal patient journey by integrating bidirectional time and a variational latent space. Trained on over 559 million clinical events from 431,000 hospital visits, it processes medical images, time‑series, numeric signals, categorical events, and both structured and unstructured records. The model supports autoregressive forecasting, zero‑shot classification, and counterfactual intervention simulation, yielding strong performance on clinical outcomes, ICD chapters, comorbidities, and time‑to‑event prediction.

By Tobias Susetzky, Raphael Rehms, Dmitrii Seletkov, \"Ozg\"un Turgut, Michelle Espranita Liman, Lisa Steinhelfer, Rickmer Braren, Daniel Rueckert
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Decoding Naturalistic Emotion Dynamics from the Brain: An LLM-Enhanced Regression Framework

arXiv:2606. 07707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoding emotional states from neural signals has been typically framed as a discrete, single-label classification task based on emotionally stable stimuli, a formulation that oversimplifies the continuous, fluid, and co-occurring nature of human affect.

By Lemei Zhang, Peng Liu, Hans Dahle Kvadsheim, August S{\ae}tre Aasv{\ae}r, Shuer Ye, Reza Bonyadi, Maryam Ziaei, Jon Atle Gulla