arXiv Machine Learning

Adaptive Multi-Agent Feature Selection for Personalized Fall Risk Prevention

The paper introduces PAFIR, a Personalized and Adaptive Feature selection framework that treats feature selection as a reinforcement learning problem over longitudinal multimodal health data. PAFIR jointly models structural dependencies among assessment variables and temporal dynamics in wearable-derived physical activity data, learning adaptive selection policies across repeated study visits using reward signals from sparse fall incidence outcomes. Applied to the Physio Feedback Exercise Program (PEER) trial, PAFIR outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines by capturing longitudinal and structural patterns of feature relevance, enabling dynamic, subject‑specific feature selection for more timely fall prevention strategies.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

DeMMO: Longitudinal and Cross-Disease Modelling of Digital Mobility Outcomes via Multi-Task Learning

DeMMO is an interpretable framework that models longitudinal digital mobility outcomes (DMOs) across multiple diseases and outcomes using multi-task learning. It introduces a cross-disease, cross-outcome relation-learning mechanism that learns signed relationships from longitudinal DMO coefficient matrices, allowing selective information sharing even when disease cohorts lack shared participants. Evaluated on the Mobilise‑D dataset, DeMMO outperforms nine strong baselines and identifies reliable longitudinal DMO patterns for clinical validation.

By Menghui Zhou, Zhipeng Yuan, Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Po Yang
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 Computation and Language
Aug 28

BALMS: Benchmarking Agentic LLMs for Longitudinal Mental Health Sensing

BALMS is a benchmark for evaluating large language model (LLM) agents that analyze longitudinal wearable data to predict mental‑health wellbeing scores and generate evidence‑grounded rationales. It covers three real‑world datasets, two task families (score prediction and rationale generation), and tests five LLM backbones across open‑ and closed‑source paradigms. The study finds that zero‑shot agents rarely beat a simple mean baseline, and while chain‑of‑thought prompting helps reasoning, it does not ensure temporal grounding or numerical accuracy.

By Yu Yvonne Wu, Arvind Pillai, Yuliang Chen, Yuwei Zhang, Sudarshan Regmi, Tess Z. Griffin, Michael V. Heinz, Lisa A. Marsch, Nicholas C. Jacobson, Andrew Campbell
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

A Temporal Machine Learning-Based Time-to-Event Model for Predicting ALS Progression and Healthcare Utilization

arXiv:2607. 14190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease in which predicting clinically meaningful milestones, such as assistive device use, remains challenging.

By Zongliang Yue, Qi Li, Terry Heiman-Patterson, Frank Bearoff, Zhaohui Qin, Huanmei Wu
arXiv AI
Jun 15

A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Architectures for Multi-Horizon Behavioural Forecasting for Mobile Health

arXiv:2606. 14604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wearable devices and smartphones generate rich behavioural time series that can support proactive health interventions, yet systematic comparisons of modern forecasting architectures for these data are lacking.

By Pavlos Nicolaou, Kleanthis Malialis, Artemis Kontou, Panayiotis Kolios