Summary of Papagei: Open Foundation Models For Optical Physiological Signals, by Arvind Pillai et al.
PaPaGei: Open Foundation Models for Optical Physiological Signals
by Arvind Pillai, Dimitris Spathis, Fahim Kawsar, Mohammad Malekzadeh
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed PaPaGei model is an open foundation model for photoplethysmography (PPG) signals that outperforms state-of-the-art time-series foundation models and self-supervised learning benchmarks across 20 tasks from 10 diverse datasets. The model leverages domain knowledge of PPG signal morphology to capture richer representations, enabling superior performance in classification and regression metrics by up to 6.3% and 2.9%, respectively. Additionally, PaPaGei demonstrates robustness across different skin tones, providing a benchmark for bias evaluation in future models. This foundation model can serve as both a feature extractor and an encoder for multimodal models, offering new opportunities for multimodal health monitoring. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary PaPaGei is a special kind of computer program that helps doctors and researchers understand people’s bodies better. It uses a type of data called PPG signals to learn about different things like heart health and sleep quality. The problem with other programs was that they only worked well on specific tasks, but PaPaGei can do many tasks at once. This is because it was trained on a huge amount of data from many different sources. PaPaGei is also really good at working with people’s skin tones, which is important for making sure the program doesn’t make mistakes based on someone’s race or ethnicity. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Encoder * Regression * Self supervised * Time series
