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Yuzhe Yang

@yuzheyang.bsky.social
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AI Prof @ UCLA | RS @ Google | PhD @ MIT #ML, #AI, #health www.cs.ucla.edu/~yuzhe yang-ai-lab.github.io

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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
𝗦𝗟𝗔 points to a new direction for sensor intelligence: moving beyond simply perceiving signals toward explaining and connecting them to actions in the real world. 🚀 👇 🌐: yang-ai-lab.github.io/OpenSLA #AI #SensorAI #HealthAI #LLM #MultimodalAI #FoundationModels #TimeSeries
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OpenSLA — Sensor-Language-Action Models
From perceiving the world to deciding what to do next: one model that connects sensors, language, and actions.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📊 Beyond these capabilities, we find that OpenSLA learns a structured action space that supports zero-shot prediction of unseen actions, captures continuous action variation, and even reveals information about future physiological states.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rather than learning actions and language separately, 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗦𝗟𝗔 learns them jointly: 🎯 Predict — learn multi-level actions from sensor 🔎 Understand — recover states and fine-grained sensor measurements. 💬 Explain — connect actions to the underlying sensor evidence and individual context.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We build a large-scale SLA framework spanning: ↳ 7 datasets ↳ 79 sensor modalities ↳ 116K individuals ↳ 60 action groups ↳ From clinical care to everyday health monitoring (CGM)
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Most sensor AI today focuses on what is happening: recognizing states, detecting events, or predicting labels. But the next frontier is more challenging: what to do next, and why? With 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗦𝗟𝗔, we take a step beyond perception, using language to connect sensor with action prediction and explanation
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📡 Introducing 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿-𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲-𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗦𝗟𝗔) models — a new class of models that connect sensor time series, natural language, and actions in one unified framework. 👇 🌐: yang-ai-lab.github.io/OpenSLA 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2607.06617 💻: github.com/yang-ai-lab/... 🧵
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗮-𝟭 turns a fragmented field into an open cookbook for models that 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿 across devices, placements, and real applications. We welcome collaborations with researchers, clinicians, wearable/sensor companies on human motion intelligence. 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲! 👇 🌐: yang-ai-lab.github.io/Inertia-1
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Inertia-1 — A Universal Motion Model
One general motion model, learned from a single wrist sensor, that transfers across placements, devices, and tasks.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Several lessons stand out: ⌚ Learn it on the wrist. Use it across the body. 🔄 Additional sensors and body placements contribute complementary information. 📈 Scaling is primarily data-first, not just model-first. ⚙️ Sensing choices directly shape what a model can learn and transfer.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We study the full lifecycle of motion foundation models: 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗼𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀, 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲, and 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿. Evals across human activity recognition, gait analysis, and disease prediction. It spans 𝟭𝟴.𝟮𝗠+ hours of data; 𝟭𝟭𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬+ individuals; 𝟭𝟱 datasets; 𝟭𝟬 pretraining methods; and 𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬+ models.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wearable motion offers a continuous view into behavior, mobility, and health. Yet the field remains 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 across 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘴, 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘴, and 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘴. 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗮-𝟭 brings this design space into one controlled framework.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
⌚ 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁. Introducing 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗮-𝟭 — a fully open cookbook for building unified wearable motion foundation models. 👇 🌐: yang-ai-lab.github.io/Inertia-1 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2607.06617 💻: github.com/yang-ai-lab/... 🧵
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗚𝗲𝗻 provides a practical map for building generative models that understand the signals powering the physical world — starting from human physiology. 👇 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2607.04245 More to come from the HAIL Lab! 📡 #AI #GenerativeAI #TimeSeries #SensorAI #WearableAI
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗚𝗲𝗻 reveals: 📈 high-frequency signals benefit from time-frequency modeling ⏳ long sequences need observed context as a temporal anchor 👤 longitudinal signals benefit from subject-level context 📏 noisy signals require more stable normalization
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Time series generation has remained fragmented across isolated tasks, modalities, and model families. 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗚𝗲𝗻 brings them into one shared testbed: ↳ 14 generation settings ↳ 7 real-world datasets ↳ 12 signal modalities ↳ 5 generative model families ↳ 4 core generative capabilities
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Generative models have transformed language and vision. But the physical world runs on something else: 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨. Today, we are excited to introduce 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗚𝗲𝗻 — fully open, large-scale study of generative modeling for real-world sensor time series. 🌐: yang-ai-lab.github.io/sensor-gen
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I will be at #ICML in Seoul next week! Our group will present 3 papers there: 📈 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦 — Jul 7, 2 PM, Hall A #712 🌙 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗟𝗠 — Jul 8, 5 PM, Hall A #4601 🛌 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗙𝗠 (𝗢𝗦𝗙) — Jul 9, 10:30 AM, Hall A #304 I'd be happy to meet and chat! DMs are open. Come say hello! 👋
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Keep Track of our latest news: 👇 🌐 Website: yang-ai-lab.github.io/HEARTS 🕵️ Code: github.com/yang-ai-lab/... 🤗 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/yan... 🏆 Leaderboard: yang-ai-lab.github.io/HEARTS/#lead... 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦 will be presented at ICML on July 7, 2:00–3:45 PM KST, Hall A #712. See you in Seoul!
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HEARTS — Health Reasoning over Time Series
A unified benchmark for evaluating hierarchical reasoning capabilities of LLMs over general health time series.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What's new? ⚡ 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦-𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: a lower-cost evaluation track 🤖 𝟲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 to the eaderboard 👾 𝟱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 with new scripts and released samples #AI #HealthAI #LLM #TimeSeries #MultimodalAI #FoundationModels
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
❤️ 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦 keeps growing with a new open-source release! yang-ai-lab.github.io/HEARTS Our goal with 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦 has always been to build a living benchmark for health time-series reasoning. This second wave makes it easier to use, cheaper to evaluate, and more open for the community.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
DSR offers a practical step toward more robust continuous prediction. Read all about it! 👇 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.01723 🌐 Website: yang-ai-lab.github.io/Deep-Spuriou... 💻 Code: github.com/yang-ai-lab/... 🤗 Models: huggingface.co/yang-ai-lab/... #AI #LLM #ML #Robustness #Regression #OOD
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Shortcut to Nowhere: Demystifying Deep Spurious Regression
Real-world regression often exhibits shortcuts: attributes that are spuriously correlated with continuous targets in training, yet unreliable under deployment shifts; regressing targets using such sho...
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Across tasks spanning: 🖼️ computer vision 🌍 environmental sensing 🤖 LLM regression our methods improve robustness under challenging attribute-label shifts. The message is broader than this paper: Regression robustness should be treated as a first-class problem.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Method-wise, there is also a clear thread from our earlier DIR (arxiv.org/pdf/2102.09554) work to this setting. Instead of treating targets as isolated points, we exploit similarity across: 📍 nearby target values 👥 related attribute groups
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We introduce Deep Spurious Regression (DSR): learning under attribute-label confounding for continuous prediction. The core issue is simple: a model may rely on attributes that are correlated with targets during training, but unreliable once the data shifts. Then performance can break at test time.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Most work on spurious correlations has focused on classification. But many real-world problems are actually regression: 📈 scoring 🏷️ ranking 🌦️ forecasting 🤖 LLM-based regression And regression is harder: there are no natural class boundaries, and no clean group-label pairs.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🚧 What if your regression model is learning shortcuts too? Introducing Deep Spurious Regression (DSR) — our new framework for studying spurious correlations in continuous prediction. 🧵👇
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🎉 Excited to share our new Nature paper on passive heart-rate monitoring during everyday smartphone use! 📱 We show that smartphones can estimate heart rate and daily resting heart rate accurately across diverse real-world settings. #AI #DigitalHealth #MobileHealth #HealthAI #Smartphones
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🚀 The website for the 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗯 (𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗟) at UCLA is (finally) live! Check it out → yang-ai-lab.github.io 📢 We are hiring! 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗟 has multiple openings for postdocs and is also actively recruiting at all levels. Please visit our website for application and contact details! #AI #Hiring
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Health Intelligence Lab - UCLA
Advancing scalable, multisensory, and generative AI for healthcare, medicine, and scientific discovery.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Huge congrats to my students @ZitaoShuai, @ZongzheX2001, @sirilee1104, @xiaoshuhan61, @mihirpjoshi_, Eideen, David, and all collaborators @aametwally1, @danmcduff, Rajesh, @AysolaRavi, @WeiWang1973! Very proud of the team! 🚀 More to come. See you in Seoul 🇰🇷 #ICML #ICML2026
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Exciting news for the Health Intelligence Lab at UCLA: 3/3 papers accepted to #ICML (1 as Spotlight) 🎉 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗟𝗠: 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹-𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 (spotlight) 𝗢𝗦𝗙: 𝗢𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦: 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 👇
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
🚀 OSF turns these findings into a practical recipe for building more generalizable and deployable sleep AI. ➡️Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.00190 Great work led by my students @ZitaoShuai, @ZongzheX2001, David, and collaborator @WeiWang1973! 🌙 #AI #sleep #sensor #health #multimodal #LLMs
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OSF: On Pre-training and Scaling of Sleep Foundation Models
Polysomnography (PSG) provides the gold standard for sleep assessment but suffers from substantial heterogeneity across recording devices and cohorts. There have been growing efforts to build general-...
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Our third finding: scaling does help in sleep — but only with the right recipe. With the right SSL design, performance keeps improving as we scale: 📦 pre-training data size 🧠 model capacity 🌐 multi-source data mixture So the message is not just scale more. It's: scale the right pre-training design.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
But missing-channel inference is not hopeless. We find that explicitly encouraging channel-invariant feature learning during pre-training can substantially improve both downstream performance and robustness when channels are missing.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Our first finding: existing sleep FMs can break badly under missing-channel inference. This is not a corner case. In real sleep studies, channel availability changes across cohorts, devices, and protocols. And when that happens, performance can drop sharply.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
We did not want to run a narrow comparison of one or two methods. Instead, we benchmarked major self-supervised learning families for sleep FM pre-training: 🔗 contrastive 🧠 self-distillation ♻️ reconstructive ➡️ autoregressive
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A big reason progress in sleep FMs has been hard to compare is simple: we have not had a unified and open testbed. We address that with SleepBench — a fully open benchmark built from public resources, with ⏱️ 166,500 hours of sleep recordings 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 21,000+ sleep studies 🌍 9 datasets 💾 ~20M 30s epochs
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Meet OSF — a fully open benchmark and state-of-the-art sleep foundation models. 🌙 We study pre-training and scaling recipes that actually improve generalization in real-world settings. 🏥 🌐 Website: yang-ai-lab.github.io/osf/ 💻 Code: github.com/yang-ai-lab/... 🤗 Models: hf.co/yang-ai-lab/...
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚀 HEARTS is built as a living ecosystem for the community: new data, new reasoning tasks, and new models can continue to be added over time! ➡️Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.06638 #AI #HealthAI #LLM #TimeSeries #Multimodal
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HEARTS: Benchmarking LLM Reasoning on Health Time Series
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has shifted time series analysis from narrow analytics to general-purpose reasoning. Yet, existing benchmarks cover only a small set of health time series moda...
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Finally, we asked whether input format changes the story. 🖼️📝 It does affect absolute performance, but much less than one might expect. Whether time series are presented as text, images, or other input forms, the relative task difficulty stays surprisingly stable.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Models from the same family often behave very similarly. 🧬 Even when absolute performance changes with scale, the overall performance pattern tends to remain stable within a family. That suggests scaling alone is not enough to solve the core reasoning gap.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We also found a striking temporal difficulty pattern. 📉 Longer sequences and higher sampling frequencies consistently make the tasks harder. Across models, domains, and modalities, performance tends to drop as the temporal burden increases.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A second takeaway is that many models rely on shortcuts rather than deep reasoning. 🪤 For Perception and Inference tasks, models often do reasonably well when there are explicit thresholds, obvious quantitative cues, or strong domain priors to lean on.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
One clear takeaway: current LLMs are still weak at genuine health time-series reasoning. 📊 We evaluated 14 state-of-the-art LLMs and found that, although many beat a simple naive baseline, the gains are often modest. On many tasks, they still fall clearly behind specialized time-series models.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
To move beyond standard benchmark design, we built a hierarchical task taxonomy. 🏗️ Rather than only asking multiple-choice questions, HEARTS organizes 110 tasks into four cognitive levels: 🧠 Perception 🔍 Inference ✍️ Generation ⚙️ Deduction
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
HEARTS also pushes models across a very wide temporal range. ⏱️ Reasoning over health time series is not only about short segments. Models may need to detect fine local structure, track long-range dependencies, or connect patterns across long periods of observation.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
One key goal was breadth of real-world physiological coverage. 🏥 Many existing benchmarks rely on synthetic signals or stay within a small number of domains. HEARTS instead brings real-world datasets spanning from motion and metabolism to sleep, respiration, surgery, speech, behavior, and more.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Can LLMs really reason over health time series? 📈 Introducing HEARTS ❤️— the first living benchmark built for health time-series reasoning. 🌐Website: yang-ai-lab.github.io/HEARTS 🕵️Code: github.com/yang-ai-lab/... 🤗Dataset: hf.co/datasets/yan... 🏆Leaderboard: yang-ai-lab.github.io/HEARTS/leade...
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
SleepLM points to a new direction for sleep AI🚀. Read all about it! ➡️Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.23605 Great work led by my students @ZongzheX2001, @ZitaoShuai, Eideen, and amazing collaborators @AysolaRavi and Rajesh! More to come🌙 #AI #sleep #sensor #health #multimodal #LLMs
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SleepLM: Natural-Language Intelligence for Human Sleep
We present SleepLM, a family of sleep-language foundation models that enable human sleep alignment, interpretation, and interaction with natural language. Despite the critical role of sleep, learning-...
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Finally, we wanted this to connect to real clinical workflows. 🏥 SleepLM can combine its predictions across an entire night and produce useful full-night measures, while staying stable over long sequences. This matters as real sleep analysis is about understanding the whole night in a reliable way.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We also wanted the model to be more controllable. 🎛️ Instead of always generating one broad description, SleepLM can focus on a specific part of the physiology when asked. For example, it can emphasize 🧠brain activity, 🫁breathing, ❤️heart-related signals, or 💪body movement.
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Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
SleepLM also learns when something happens, not just whether it happened. ⏱️ Our results show that the model is sensitive to timing. The strongest match appears when the text and the signal line up at the correct moment, and that match weakens as the alignment moves away.
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