arXiv Machine Learning

Zero-Shot Heart Rate Variability Forecasting from Consumer Wearables Using Time Series Foundation Models

arXiv:2607. 20027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Short-term Heart Rate Variability (HRV) forecasting could provide clinicians with actionable lead time for detecting autonomic dysfunction and adverse cardiac events.

arXiv AI
Aug 26

Evaluating Deep Multivariate Imputation Models on Wearable Device Data

The paper introduces a new evaluation protocol for deep multivariate imputation models on wearable device data, addressing the issue of structured missingness where sensor features drop out together. Using a Garmin smartwatch dataset from an epilepsy patient, the authors generate realistic block-missing patterns from training data and show that matching the training protocol to this distribution reduces BRITS’ mean absolute error by 43%. They also extend BRITS with time‑of‑day encoding and compare it to linear interpolation and SAITS, finding that no single model dominates and that model rankings vary with evaluation design.

By Skye Goodman, Roussel Desmond Nzoyem, Leandro Junges, Peter Kissack, Yasser Qureshi, Amberly Brigden, Jeff Clark, Nawid Keshtmand
arXiv AI
Sep 16

SOTER: A Generative Time-Series Foundation Model for Wearable Human Physiological Signals

SOTER is a generative foundation model designed for wearable physiological time‑series data. It integrates cross‑channel coupling, spectrum‑guided expert specialization, and continuous‑time latent evolution, using a spatial feature‑aware backbone, a PSD‑guided mixture‑of‑experts layer, and a neural controlled differential equation decoder. Trained on 226 billion time points from five public datasets, SOTER outperforms baselines in zero‑shot forecasting, classification, and imputation across six benchmarks, and remains robust to additive noise.

By Fangke Chen, Sirry Chen, Wei Chen, Zhongyu Wei
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Curriculum-Aware Interpolate-then-Refine: Learned Physiological Time-Series Imputation under Realistic Missingness

The paper introduces Curriculum‑Aware Interpolate‑then‑Refine (CAIR), a two‑stage framework for imputing physiological time‑series data. CAIR first learns a coarse base curve with a bidirectional‑GRU interpolator and then refines it through three Transformer passes, trained under a random‑gap curriculum that mimics realistic missingness. Evaluations on continuous glucose monitoring and arterial pressure datasets show CAIR outperforms all baselines across MCAR, MAR, and NMAR mechanisms, especially for long gaps and value‑dependent dropout, while also preserving clinically relevant burden metrics.

By Yu-Chao Huang, Haochen Zhang, Nicholas Konz, Tianlong Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 21

OpenMHC: Accelerating the Science of Wearable Foundation Models

arXiv:2607. 16235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile and wearable devices offer an unprecedented opportunity for continuous, passive health monitoring and active health coaching.

By Narayan Schuetz, Yuze Bai, Lianggang Pan, Edgar Eggert, Favour Nerrise, Juan Delgado-SanMartin, Max Rosenblattl, Milana Gurbanova, Mohammad Asadi, Anders Johnson, Paul Schmiedmayer, Dennis Wang, Allan Lawrie, Daniel Seung Kim, Xin Liu, Akshay Paruchuri, Ehsan Adeli, Euan Ashley, Kelly W. Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Timesynth: A Temporal Fidelity Framework for Health Signal Digital Twins

arXiv:2607. 00431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting models for health-signal digital twins must preserve the oscillatory, frequency, phase, and state-transition dynamics of physiological signals, yet the pointwise metrics used to benchmark them cannot detect when these fundamental properties are lost.

By Md Rakibul Haque, Shireen Elhabian, Warren Woodrich Pettine
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Learning Where to Look: A Shared Relative-Alignment Module for Time-Series Forecasting and PPG-to-Vital-Sign Reconstruction

The paper introduces ROOSTER, a shared relative‑alignment module that learns how to map a condition sequence to a target sequence for both PPG‑to‑vital‑sign reconstruction and long‑horizon multivariate time‑series forecasting. ROOSTER uses a learnable periodic‑comb bias over the target‑condition offset, allowing it to discover identity alignment or seasonal lags and report the chosen correspondence. Experiments show that ROOSTER outperforms existing baselines on heart‑rate and respiratory‑rate reconstruction from wrist‑worn photoplethysmograms, and achieves the lowest horizon‑averaged MSE on four forecasting benchmarks, outperforming the underlying forecasting model in most dataset‑horizon settings.

By Ragamayi Puli, Shunya Nagashima
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Robust Photoplethysmography Signal Denoising via Mamba Networks

The paper introduces DPNet, a Mamba-based deep learning framework for denoising photoplethysmography (PPG) signals while preserving physiological information. It incorporates a scale‑invariant signal‑to‑distortion ratio loss and an auxiliary heart‑rate predictor to enhance waveform fidelity and maintain heart‑rate accuracy. Experiments on the BIDMC dataset show that DPNet outperforms conventional filtering and existing neural models in robustness against synthetic noise and real‑world motion artifacts, making it suitable for wearable healthcare systems.

By I Chiu, Yu-Tung Liu, Kuan-Chen Wang, Hung-Yu Wei, Yu Tsao