TimeCap is an open, deterministic pipeline that generates text captions for wearable health time‑series data without using a language model in the loop. It consists of three reusable extractor tiers and a cross‑channel synthesis layer, allowing new schemas to be added by defining channel mappings. Applying TimeCap to the MyHeart Counts dataset produced MHCap, the largest open caption layer for multimodal wearable data, containing 7,005,763 captions over 908,944 person‑days across 19 Apple HealthKit channels.
arXiv:2607. 16235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile and wearable devices offer an unprecedented opportunity for continuous, passive health monitoring and active health coaching.
arXiv:2610.17856v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time-series analysis is increasingly studied in multimodal settings, yet most benchmarks pair temporal signals with text or with visualizations deriv...
arXiv:2604. 00767v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wearable human activity recognition (HAR) has made steady progress, yet much of this progress remains grounded in fixed-window, closed-set classification benchmarks.
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.
arXiv:2607. 27635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wearable sensors continuously capture fine-grained multivariate time-series data, providing opportunities to model behavioural patterns associated with health outcomes.
arXiv:2610.08244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sensors are useful not only for understanding the world but also for deciding what to do next. Existing sensor models however largely stop at perceptio...
arXiv:2607. 14510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial time series serve as the foundation for Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) to ensure the reliability and safety of industrial equipment such as aero-engines.
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.
arXiv:2601. 14968v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most existing time series classification methods adopt a discriminative paradigm that maps input sequences directly to one-hot encoded class labels.
arXiv:2607. 15447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research in clinical machine learning, focusing on outcome predictions in intensive care unit (ICU), has shifted from bespoke supervised models to foundation models, utilising modern representation learning methods.
The paper investigates whether multimodal time‑series forecasting models actually use the semantic content of accompanying text. By systematically perturbing the text—replacing it with empty, constant, shuffled, or cross‑domain sentences—the authors find that mean squared error changes by less than 0.5 % across several architectures, indicating that text does not drive performance gains. They also show that removing a co‑shipped numeric column restores the reported improvements, suggesting that the models rely on other signals rather than textual semantics.
PocketTSLM is a mobile-native deployment of the OpenTSLM SoftPrompt time‑series language model that runs entirely on a consumer smartphone. By injecting encoded time‑series windows as embeddings instead of tokenizing them as text, PocketTSLM preserves temporal structure while using far fewer tokens and staying within the device’s context and memory limits. The model has been benchmarked on 30‑second EEG sleep‑staging clips and 10‑second ECG recordings, achieving on‑device inference with no health data transmitted to the cloud.