Scaling law for physiological waveforms favors more training data over larger models

A 1.2x model size increase paired with an 8.2x increase in pretraining hours is compute-optimal for clinical prediction tasks.

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Pingzhi Li · Jie Peng · Shuqing Luo · Zachary Plotkin · Tianlong Chen

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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3M hours of data and derive a scaling law that predicts downstream clinical performance.

Li et al.

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Larger physiological waveform models and more pretraining hours reduce the need for labeled clinical data.

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