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Leslie Neely

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arXiv2026

CogAdapt: Adapting Clinical ECG Foundation Models for Wearable Cognitive Load Assessment

Assessing cognitive load continuously and at low latency would help adaptive human-computer interaction, but it remains hard because labeled data are scarce and models generalize poorly across subjects. Recent ECG foundation models, pre-trained on millions of clinical diagnostic ECG recordings, yet they do not apply directly to wearable devices when the sensor configuration and the task both differ. We present CogAdapt, a framework that adapts a clinical ECG foundation model to wearable cognitive load assessment. CogAdapt has two parts. LeadBridge is a learnable adapter that maps 3-lead wearable signals to a 12-lead-compatible representation. ProFine is a progressive fine-tuning strategy that unfreezes encoder layers in stages while limiting representational drift in the pre-trained model. On two public datasets (CLARE and CL-Drive) under leave-one-subject-out cross-validation, CogAdapt reaches macro-F1 of 0.626 and 0.768, improving over from-scratch baselines by 11.2 and 16.1 percentage points. The results show that a clinical ECG pretraining can support subject-independent cognitive load assessment from wearable sensors.

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arXiv2026

MambaGaze: Bidirectional Mamba with Explicit Missing Data Modeling for Cognitive Load Assessment from Eye-Gaze Tracking Data

Real-time cognitive load assessment from eye-tracking signals could enable adaptive human-centered AI in safety-critical applications such as driver vigilance monitoring or automated flight deck assistance, yet two challenges persist: handling frequent data missingness from blinks and tracking failures, and efficiently modeling long-range temporal dependencies. We propose MambaGaze (Bi-Mamba), a framework that addresses these challenges through (1) XMD encoding, which augments raw features with observation masks and time-deltas to explicitly model data uncertainty, and (2) bidirectional Mamba-2, which captures temporal dependencies with linear computational complexity. Experiments on CLARE and CL-Drive datasets under leave-one-subject-out evaluation show that MambaGaze achieves 77.1% accuracy and 59.2% macro-F1 on CLARE, and 69.4% accuracy and 51.5% macro-F1 on CL-Drive, attaining the highest average LOSO macro-F1 (55.3%) across all ten compared models. Input-stream ablation indicates that log-scaled time-deltas are the strongest single channel in our setting, and combining all three XMD streams provides consistent gains of 5-20 pp macro-F1. Edge deployment benchmarks on three NVIDIA Jetson Orin platforms show real-time inference at 27-36 FPS with power consumption below 6.6 W, supporting feasibility for embedded cognitive load monitoring.

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arXiv2024

Language-Assisted Deep Learning for Autistic Behaviors Recognition

Correctly recognizing the behaviors of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is of vital importance for the diagnosis of Autism and timely early intervention. However, the observation and recording during the treatment from the parents of autistic children may not be accurate and objective. In such cases, automatic recognition systems based on computer vision and machine learning (in particular deep learning) technology can alleviate this issue to a large extent. Existing human action recognition models can now achieve persuasive performance on challenging activity datasets, e.g. daily activity, and sports activity. However, problem behaviors in children with ASD are very different from these general activities, and recognizing these problem behaviors via computer vision is less studied. In this paper, we first evaluate a strong baseline for action recognition, i.e. Video Swin Transformer, on two autism behaviors datasets (SSBD and ESBD) and show that it can achieve high accuracy and outperform the previous methods by a large margin, demonstrating the feasibility of vision-based problem behaviors recognition. Moreover, we propose language-assisted training to further enhance the action recognition performance. Specifically, we develop a two-branch multimodal deep learning framework by incorporating the "freely available" language description for each type of problem behavior. Experimental results demonstrate that incorporating additional language supervision can bring an obvious performance boost for the autism problem behaviors recognition task as compared to using the video information only (i.e. 3.49% improvement on ESBD and 1.46% on SSBD).

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arXiv2021

AI-Augmented Behavior Analysis for Children with Developmental Disabilities: Building Towards Precision Treatment

Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disorder characterized by significant social, communication, and behavioral challenges. Individuals diagnosed with autism, intellectual, and developmental disabilities (AUIDD) typically require long-term care and targeted treatment and teaching. Effective treatment of AUIDD relies on efficient and careful behavioral observations done by trained applied behavioral analysts (ABAs). However, this process overburdens ABAs by requiring the clinicians to collect and analyze data, identify the problem behaviors, conduct pattern analysis to categorize and predict categorical outcomes, hypothesize responsiveness to treatments, and detect the effects of treatment plans. Successful integration of digital technologies into clinical decision-making pipelines and the advancements in automated decision-making using Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms highlights the importance of augmenting teaching and treatments using novel algorithms and high-fidelity sensors. In this article, we present an AI-Augmented Learning and Applied Behavior Analytics (AI-ABA) platform to provide personalized treatment and learning plans to AUIDD individuals. By defining systematic experiments along with automated data collection and analysis, AI-ABA can promote self-regulative behavior using reinforcement-based augmented or virtual reality and other mobile platforms. Thus, AI-ABA could assist clinicians to focus on making precise data-driven decisions and increase the quality of individualized interventions for individuals with AUIDD.

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