GPT-PPG: a GPT-based foundation model for photoplethysmography signals
Summary
Zhaoliang Chen, Cheng Ding, Saurabh Kataria, Runze Yan, Minxiao Wang, Randall Lee, Xiao Hu. Physiol. Meas.
Key facts
- License
- Not stated
Reported benchmarks
Cuffless blood pressure
PulseDB v2.0 · MAE (mmHg) ↓
SBP/DBP MAE, GPT-1B fine-tuned; authors' random subject-disjoint test set (not official PulseDB subsets); authors call it reference only; arXiv v1 Table 4
Heart rate estimation
IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015 (TROIKA) · MAE (bpm) ↓
GPT-1B fine-tuned (MOFT), LOSO; arXiv v1 Table 2
Heart rate estimation
PPG-DaLiA · MAE (bpm) ↓
GPT-1B fine-tuned (MOFT), LOSO; arXiv v1 Table 2; not comparable to frozen-probe rows
Heart rate estimation
WESAD · MAE (bpm) ↓
GPT-1B fine-tuned (MOFT), LOSO; arXiv v1 Table 2
Updated: Oct 11, 2026
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