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Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data

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While ubiquitous wearable sensors capture a wealth of behavioral and physiological information, effectively transforming these signals into personalized health insights is challenging. Specifically, converting low-level sensor data into representations capable of characterizing higher-level states is difficult due to high phenotypic diversity and variation in individual baseline health, physiology, and lifestyle factors. Moreover, collecting wearable data paired with health outcome annotations is laborious and expensive, and retrospective annotation remains practically unfeasible, contributing to a scarcity of data with high-quality labels. To overcome these limitations, we propose a foundation model for wearable health that is pretrained on more than one trillion minutes of unlabeled sensor signals drawn from a large cohort of five million participants. We demonstrate that the joint scaling of model capacity and pretraining data volume leads to systematic improvements in performance, as evaluated on a diverse set of 35 health prediction tasks, spanning cardiovascular, metabolic, sleep, and mental health, as well as lifestyle choices and demographic factors. We find that this population scale representation unlocks label-efficient few-shot learning and generative capabilities for robust daily metric estimation. To further leverage this learned representation, we deploy a classroom of LLM agents to autonomously search the space of downstream predictive heads built on the model embeddings, showing broad performance improvements that increase with LLM model capacity. Finally, we show how integrating these downstream predictors into a Personal Health Agent can support model responses that are more relevant, contextually aware, and safe, and we validate this via 1,860 ratings from a cohort of clinicians.

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• 2026

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TaskDatasetResultRank
Signal ImputationWearable Health Data
MSE0.122
16
Temporal ExtrapolationWearable Health Data
MSE0.463
12
Temporal interpolationWearable Health Data
MSE0.353
12
ASCVD Risk PredictionWearable Health Data 5-fold CV
Pearson Correlation Coefficient (r)0.784
10
Cardiovascular Diagnosis PredictionWearable Health Data 5-fold CV
ROC AUC0.712
5
Currently Working PredictionWearable Health Data 5-fold CV
ROC AUC0.912
5
Depression/Anxiety Diagnosis PredictionWearable Health Data 5-fold CV
ROC AUC72.1
5
Diabetes Diagnosis PredictionWearable Health Data 5-fold CV
ROC AUC76.3
5
Diabetes Medication Use PredictionWearable Health Data 5-fold CV
ROC AUC70.6
5
Disability Affects Work PredictionWearable Health Data 5-fold CV
ROC AUC0.699
5
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