FemWear is a parameter‑efficient wearable foundation model specifically tailored for women's health. It repurposes a pretrained multimodal wearable backbone by training only 239,236 encoder parameters—just 1.11% of the original 21.54M—using low‑rank residual adapters and causal task‑family heads to create a shared longitudinal representation for menstrual, symptom, affective, sleep/recovery, autonomic, activity, and pregnancy outcomes. Evaluations across six cohorts and 63 metrics show improvements in cycle‑phase macro‑F1 and reductions in mean absolute error for cramps, mood symptoms, and sleep problems, while maintaining the OpenMHC ability‑retention benchmark.
arXiv:2608. 08244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General wearable foundation models are pretrained across broad sensor streams and populations, but are not designed around women's-health tasks.
arXiv:2411. 15240v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Wearable movement data is collected by nearly all commercially available smartwatches and is a valuable resource for mental health research, reflecting fine-grained temporal behavioral trends.
SleepFM-2 is a foundation model trained on 282,511 polysomnography recordings, covering over two million hours of multimodal sleep physiology. It outperforms its predecessor in disease prediction, sleep scoring, and event detection, and its representation improves performance across diverse tasks—including wearable sensing, subjective sleep reports, and transfer to other EEG modalities. When combined with age, sex, and BMI, the model meets stringent discrimination criteria for 215 EHR phenotypes, adding reproducible information beyond demographics for 155 of them.
The paper evaluates six onboarding strategies for federated wearable models on five datasets using a leakage‑controlled protocol that fixes source checkpoints and separates calibration from evaluation. Results show that while average accuracy is high, person‑level performance can drop significantly, with some methods causing negative transfer for certain users. The study highlights that mean accuracy alone is insufficient and provides an auditable benchmark and failure map for future development.
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.
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.
Time-series foundation models have demonstrated strong cross-domain transfer, yet their common architectural assumptions remain poorly aligned with wearable physiological signals, which are multichann...
arXiv:2606. 07692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models for wearable biosignals have matched or exceeded supervised specialists across a range of clinical tasks, yet all rely on modalities that require deliberate user action--wearing a device or visiting a sleep lab.
arXiv:2607. 15721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cardiometabolic diseases remain among the most persistent drivers of preventable morbidity because diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease frequently co-occur and share metabolic, vascular, demographic, and behavioral determinants.
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: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.
The study compares six state‑of‑the‑art sleep‑staging foundation models on the MESA polysomnography dataset under three signal conditions: EEG only, ECG only, and EEG+ECG. Results show that EEG alone yields the highest accuracy (BIOT macro‑F1 = 0.7237), while switching to ECG alone incurs a consistent accuracy loss of about 0.35 macro‑F1 and reduces data rate to one‑third. Adding ECG to EEG offers little benefit for most models, indicating that EEG carries most of the sleep‑staging signal and that wearable‑compatible ECG alone is a viable but less accurate alternative.