Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.22759,
title = {Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data},
author = {Girish Narayanswamy and Maxwell A. Xu and A. Ali Heydari and Samy Abdel-Ghaffar and Marius Guerard and Kara Vaillancourt and Zhihan Zhang and Jake Garrison and Levi Albuquerque and Dimitris Spathis and Hong Yu and Hamid Palangi and Xuhai "Orson" Xu and David G. T. Barrett and Joseph Breda and Jed McGiffin and Yubin Kim and Yuwei Zhang and Naghmeh Rezaei and Samuel Solomon and Karan Ahuja and Tim Althoff and Jake Sunshine and Ming-Zher Poh and Benjamin Yetton and Ari Winbush and Nicholas B. Allen and James M. Rehg and Isaac Galatzer-Levy and Yun Liu and John Hernandez and Anupam Pathak and Conor Heneghan and Yuzhe Yang and Ahmed A. Metwally and Pushmeet Kohli and Mark Malhotra and Shwetak Patel and Xin Liu and Daniel McDuff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22759},
year = {2026}
}