Temporally Multi-Scale Sparse Self-Attention for Physical Activity Data Imputation
Hui Wei, Maxwell A Xu, Colin Samplawski, James Matthew Rehg, Santosh Kumar, Benjamin Marlin
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Abstract:
Wearable sensors enable health researchers to continuously collect data pertaining to the physiological state of individuals in real-world settings. However, such data can be subject to extensive missingness due to a complex combination of factors. In this work, we study the problem of imputation of missing step count data, one of the most ubiquitous forms of wearable sensor data. We construct a novel and large scale data set consisting of a training set with over 3 million hourly step count observations and a test set with over 2.5 million hourly step count observations. We propose a domain knowledge-informed sparse self-attention model for this task that captures the temporal multi-scale nature of step-count data. We assess the performance of the model relative to baselines based on different missing rates and ground-truth step counts. Finally, we conduct ablation studies to verify our specific model designs.