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Publications (9)

cs.CL2025

Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

Gheorghe Comanici, Eric Bieber, Mike Schaekermann +3431

In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models. Gemini 2.5 Pro is our…

cs.LG2022

Best of both worlds: local and global explanations with human-understandable concepts

Jessica Schrouff, Sebastien Baur, Shaobo Hou +6

Interpretability techniques aim to provide the rationale behind a model's decision, typically by explaining either an individual prediction (local explanation, e.g. 'why is this pa…

cs.CV2023

Predicting Cardiovascular Disease Risk using Photoplethysmography and Deep Learning

Wei-Hung Weng, Sebastien Baur, Mayank Daswani +13

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are responsible for a large proportion of premature deaths in low- and middle-income countries. Early CVD detection and intervention is critical in t…

cs.LG2021

Concept-based model explanations for Electronic Health Records

Diana Mincu, Eric Loreaux, Shaobo Hou +7

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are often used for sequential modeling of adverse outcomes in electronic health records (EHRs) due to their ability to encode past clinical states.…

eess.SP2025

UWB Radar-based Heart Rate Monitoring: A Transfer Learning Approach

Elzbieta Gruzewska, Pooja Rao, Sebastien Baur +14

Radar technology presents untapped potential for continuous, contactless, and passive heart rate monitoring via consumer electronics like mobile phones. However the variety of avai…

cs.LG2024

Health AI Developer Foundations

Atilla P. Kiraly, Sebastien Baur, Kenneth Philbrick +23

Robust medical Machine Learning (ML) models have the potential to revolutionize healthcare by accelerating clinical research, improving workflows and outcomes, and producing novel…

cs.LG2023

Optimizing Audio Augmentations for Contrastive Learning of Health-Related Acoustic Signals

Louis Blankemeier, Sebastien Baur, Wei-Hung Weng +5

Health-related acoustic signals, such as cough and breathing sounds, are relevant for medical diagnosis and continuous health monitoring. Most existing machine learning approaches…

cs.CV2022

Robust and Efficient Medical Imaging with Self-Supervision

Shekoofeh Azizi, Laura Culp, Jan Freyberg +31

Recent progress in Medical Artificial Intelligence (AI) has delivered systems that can reach clinical expert level performance. However, such systems tend to demonstrate sub-optima…

cs.LG2024

HeAR -- Health Acoustic Representations

Sebastien Baur, Zaid Nabulsi, Wei-Hung Weng +15

Health acoustic sounds such as coughs and breaths are known to contain useful health signals with significant potential for monitoring health and disease, yet are underexplored in…