arXiv AI

Task-evoked eye movements as candidate digital biomarkers of depression severity in adolescents and young adults

arXiv AI
Sep 4

GazeFS: Target-Centered Gaze-Trajectory Forecasting and Stabilization from Gaze-Head History

GazeFS is a model that predicts and stabilizes target‑centered gaze trajectories using a variable‑length gaze‑head history, without requiring target information during inference. It maps this history to the next target‑center direction and a short‑horizon Search/Focus estimate, improving focus target centering and reducing residual gaze error. Across 7,960 acquisition episodes from 30 participants, GazeFS reduces Focus episode bias, dispersion, and P90 target error by 0.182°, 0.257°, and 0.400°, respectively, while maintaining high phase‑balanced accuracy and AUPRC.

By Yaozheng Xia, Zaiping Zhu, Bo Pang, Minghao Xie, Hui Li, Shaorong Wang, Sheng Li
arXiv AI
Sep 7

BioSync: Transformer-Based Cross-Modal Fusion for a Multimodal Physiological Digital Biomarker

BioSync is a transformer-based model that fuses cardiac, neural, behavioral, and speech data from wearables and mobile devices into a continuous composite digital biomarker called the BioSync Index (BSI). The architecture uses multi-head self-attention on modality tokens and a linear branch for feature concatenation, inspired by latent-variable measurement theory. Evaluations on synthetic cohorts for cognitive decline and metabolic-autonomic conditions show BioSync achieving AUCs of 0.928 and 0.764 accuracy/F1 of 0.766, outperforming simple concatenation and other fusion strategies in most corruption scenarios.

By Seyed Mahmoud Sajjadi Mohammadabadi
arXiv AI
Sep 1

AOI-Net: Structural Face AOI-Guided Eye-Gaze Track Representation Learning for Autism Spectrum Disorder Detection

AOI-Net introduces a structural face AOI-guided Eye‑Gaze Track Network that jointly models short‑term temporal dynamics and AOI‑level structural organization for Autism Spectrum Disorder detection. The network uses a gating mechanism to adaptively combine complementary representations and incorporates class‑distribution‑aware learning to address the imbalance between ASD and typically developing participants. Experiments on a large clinical eye‑tracking database with over 1,300 participants demonstrate that AOI‑Net outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods and offers interpretable gaze‑behavior modeling for scalable AI‑driven ASD screening.

By Zhanpei Huang, Binbin Sun, Jialiang Chen, Yiou Wang, Taochen Chen, Yuzhu Ji, Yiqun Zhang, Yiu-Ming Cheung
arXiv AI
Jul 29

DynaBridge: Dynamic Summary-Guided Cross-Task Multimodal Fusion for DASS-Structured Mental Health Assessment

arXiv:2607. 25679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal behavioral analysis offers a scalable approach to assessing depression, anxiety, and stress, yet generic fusion models often ignore the psychometric structure of questionnaire labels.

By Shiyu Teng, Haichen Yu, Jiaqing Liu, Hao Sun, Yu Song, Shurong Chai, Ruibo Hou, Lanfen Lin, Yen-Wei Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 24

AI-Driven Neural Surrogates for In Silico Design of Cognitive-Affective Neuromodulation Targets

arXiv:2609.27729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In neuropsychiatry, the primary goal is often not only to decode brain activity but to change it, for example to lessen a negative affective bias or...

By Marco Rothermel, Madleen Stenger, Soroush Daftarian, Svenja Jule Francke, Bita Shariatpanahi, Jos\'e C. Garc\'ia Alanis, Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani, Stefan G. Hofmann, Tim Hahn, Hamidreza Jamalabadi
arXiv AI
Oct 5

Modeling Shared and Individual Structure for Cross-Subject Continuous Affect Regression from EEG-fNIRS

The paper presents a method for zero‑shot cross‑subject continuous affect regression using synchronized EEG‑fNIRS data. It decomposes affect trajectories into a shared component across subjects and an individual component derived from a label‑free alpha‑band cross‑channel synchrony marker, which rescales the shared trajectory for each test subject. Extensive validation—including leave‑one‑subject‑out correlation, functional‑form comparison, component ablation, and ceiling analysis—shows the approach achieves lower mean absolute errors than EEGNet and ASAC‑Net baselines on unseen subjects.

By Xuan Wang, Bing Wang, Shuai Chang, Hao Yuan, Xinbo Qi, Xinyue Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

MC-TRCM: Observation-Aware Recursive Fusion for Incomplete Mobile and Wearable Mental-Health Feature Views

The paper introduces MC-TRCM, a Modality‑Conditioned Temporal Recursive Context Model that treats each feature source from mobile and wearable mental‑health datasets as a separate token and explicitly models missingness. By encoding observed values, summarizing missingness, and using learned absence tokens, the model refines predictions recursively and is conditioned on dataset and task embeddings. Evaluated on six endpoints from DepreST‑CAT and PSYCHE‑D, MC‑TRCM outperforms tabular baselines on PHQ‑9 and GAD‑7 severity prediction and matches or slightly exceeds reference performance on classification tasks, with ablations confirming the importance of feature‑wise modulation, absence tokens, missingness projections, and recursive refinement.

By Wentao Wang, Lifeng Han, Zining Ren, Hengyu Zhong, Guangyu Zou
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Detection != Reliable Control: Decodable Empathy Directions Yield at Most Partial Shifts in Automated Empathy Scores

The study examines whether a decodable "empathy" direction can be used as a reliable causal lever in language models. Using EPITOME-derived facets of Recognition (cognitive) and Resonance (affective) across three instruction‑tuned LLMs, the authors find that while affective steering can partially raise affective scores, cognitive steering shows inconsistent or unmeasurable effects. The results highlight that decodability does not guarantee reliable control, especially for cognitive empathy, and that measurement sensitivity must be explicitly checked.

By Haoran Jisun