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digital health platform teams

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MedZERO improves medical reasoning with self-evolving AI agents

MedZERO: Self-Evolving Agents for Open-Ended Medical Reasoning Through Controlled Knowledge Accumulation

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in medical question answering and clinical reasoning, yet their improvement remains constrained by static parametric knowledge and costly expert supervision. Self-evolving agents offer a promising alternative by enabling models to improve through iterative task generation and problem-solving. However, most existing self-evolving methods are designed for easily verifiable domains such as mathematics and coding, where solutions can be checked by exact answers or executable programs. Medical reasoning is fundamentally different: it is open-ended, knowledge-intensive, and often only partially verifiable. We present MedZERO, a self-evolving framework for open-ended medical reasoning. MedZERO couples an Examiner that generates frontier medical question-option pairs with a Reasoner that solves them through evidence-grounded multi-turn reasoning with external knowledge tools. To support reliable, continual improvement, MedZERO adopts controlled knowledge accumulation, which maintains temporary exploratory knowledge and curated persistent knowledge in reasoning. We evaluate MedZERO on five public medical reasoning benchmarks using 4B- and 8B-scale base models under open-ended evaluation. Across all settings, MedZERO consistently outperforms the underlying base models and prior self-evolving baselines, achieving up to 13.7 average accuracy-point gains over the next-best self-evolving baseline.

Tue 6 OctArtificial Intelligence
The gist
Medical reasoning is tricky because it often involves unclear questions and lots of knowledge. The authors created MedZERO, a system where two AI agents work together: one creates challenging medical questions, and the other tries to answer them step-by-step using trusted knowledge. Over time, MedZERO learns and improves by carefully storing useful knowledge. Tests show that it outperforms earlier AI models on medical reasoning tasks.
Open → 2610.08327v1

Agentic AI adapts personalized sleep reminders using daily data

An Agentic Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention System for Personalized Sleep Support: Proof-of-Concept Study with N of 1 Data

Abstract: Background: Just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) can use behavioral data to adapt support to changing contexts, but many rely on predefined rules and manual configuration. Objective: We developed a proof-of-concept sleep JITAI using an AI agent to review personal data, evaluate reminders, adapt interventions, and record decisions for human review. Methods: Running in Home Assistant on a configurable schedule, the agent follows a reusable skill file to review 30 days of sleep and behavioral data, including physical activity, smartphone use, and bedtime routines, to identify patterns and create or update automated reminders. Results: Initial runs demonstrated technical feasibility, successfully completing data review and intervention decisions while limiting reminders to three per day and saving decision records. Conclusions: Agentic AI may enable flexible, adaptive sleep JITAIs. The architecture supports future comparison with fixed or rulebased interventions, requires human oversight, and could extend to other health behaviors.

Fri 18 SeptHuman-Computer InteractionArtificial Intelligence
The gist
Getting better sleep often means changing habits, but adjusting advice to each person's needs can be tricky. The authors created a smart system that looks at 30 days of a person's sleep and daily activities to find patterns. This system then creates or updates helpful reminders about sleep habits automatically and learns as it goes. It works under human supervision and can be expanded to help with other health habits too.
Open → 2609.21805v1

Privacy focused challenge tests AI for teen depression and anxiety detection

AdoDAS: A Privacy-Preserving Multimodal Challenge for Adolescent Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Assessment

Abstract: Adolescent depression, anxiety, and stress (D/A/S) call for scalable tools that complement, rather than replace, professional evaluation. Under a privacy-preserving policy, the AdoDAS Grand Challenge withholds minors' raw recordings and distributes anonymized audio-visual representations and ASR-derived text. Its 6,000 participants provide 24,000 segments across one scripted-reading and three open-response sessions. Two tracks assess multi-task binary D/A/S screening and ordinal prediction of 21 DASS-21 item responses. From 191 registrations, the final leaderboards included 95 eligible screening teams and 64 item-prediction teams. Audio-visual baselines achieved 0.4604 mean F1 and 0.2675 mean Quadratic Weighted Kappa; leading submissions reached 0.5921 and 0.2776. Representative systems emphasize cross-session modelling, temporal multimodal fusion, psychometric structure, and task-aware calibration.

Mon 7 SeptMultimediaSound
The gist
Mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and stress among teenagers need tools that help doctors without replacing them. The authors created a contest where teams used safe, anonymous audio and video data to detect these conditions. This contest included over 6,000 young participants answering questions while keeping their private data secure. The best computer systems used clever methods to combine different types of information over time to better predict mental health symptoms.
Open → 2609.07038v1