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ECG-MoE: Mixture-of-Expert Electrocardiogram Foundation Model

Artificial Intelligence 2026-03-06 v1

Abstract

Electrocardiography (ECG) analysis is crucial for cardiac diagnosis, yet existing foundation models often fail to capture the periodicity and diverse features required for varied clinical tasks. We propose ECG-MoE, a hybrid architecture that integrates multi-model temporal features with a cardiac period-aware expert module. Our approach uses a dual-path Mixture-of-Experts to separately model beat-level morphology and rhythm, combined with a hierarchical fusion network using LoRA for efficient inference. Evaluated on five public clinical tasks, ECG-MoE achieves state-of-the-art performance with 40% faster inference than multi-task baselines.

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@article{arxiv.2603.04589,
  title  = {ECG-MoE: Mixture-of-Expert Electrocardiogram Foundation Model},
  author = {Yuhao Xu and Xiaoda Wang and Yi Wu and Wei Jin and Xiao Hu and Carl Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.04589},
  year   = {2026}
}
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