用扩散模型生成可迭代更新的数字孪生,提前测试健康干预算法效果。
A Diffusion-Model Subpopulation Digital Twin for Mobile Health Deployment: A Case Study on the HeartSteps Intervention

- 基于条件时间序列扩散模型构建时序一致的数字孪生。
- 在HeartSteps三轮部署中复现目标群体行为结构优于简单模拟器。
- 适合需提前验证干预算法的移动健康研究者使用。
移动健康干预日益采用在线学习与决策算法,个性化推送健康提醒,但设计不佳的算法可能增加用户负担并导致流失。因此,新算法应在真实部署前通过真实用户模拟进行验证。本文提出构建‘JITAI-Twins’:针对目标亚群体的数字孪生,用于在即时适应性干预(JITAI)部署前比较候选在线算法。该方法基于条件时间序列扩散模型,保证时序一致性(未来动作不影响生成历史),并支持三步更新:在大型观察数据集上预训练,利用相关人群小规模前期干预数据微调,以及在推理阶段根据领域专家知识校准至目标人群。我们在长期运行的HeartSteps系列(v2至v4)物理活动建议干预部署中验证了该孪生模型,将每次后续部署视为未来研究。结果表明,该模型在再现目标亚群体的时间动态与个体间结构方面优于更简单的模拟器。这说明该数字孪生可用于在实际部署前模拟目标场景,为在线算法设计提供测试与决策支持。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Mobile-health interventions increasingly use online learning and decision making algorithms to personalize when to nudge users toward healthier behavior, but a poorly designed algorithm can burden and disengage participants. New algorithm design decisions should therefore be vetted against realistic simulated users before each real-life deployment. We propose a method to develop ``JITAI-Twins'': digital twins of a target subpopulation for comparing candidate online algorithms before a just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) deployment. The method builds on a conditional time-series diffusion model that is temporally consistent (future actions do not affect the generated past), and it supports repeated updating from three sources of information, in three steps: pre-training on a large observational dataset, fine-tuning on small prior intervention deployments in related populations, and inference-time calibration to the next target population from domain-scientist expertise. We validate the twin at each pre-deployment stage of the long-running HeartSteps series (v2 through v4) of physical-activity suggestion intervention deployments, treating each successive deployment as an upcoming study. The proposed method reproduces the target subpopulation's temporal and between-participant structure better than simpler simulators. These results suggest that our twin can be used to simulate a target deployment before it runs, the prerequisite for testing and informing online algorithm design decisions.
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