Title: Cross-modal Recurrent Models for Weight Objective Prediction from Multimodal Time-series Data,
Abstract: We analyse multimodal time-series data corresponding to weight, sleep and
steps measurements. We focus on predicting whether a user will successfully
achieve his/her weight objective. For this, we design several deep long
short-term memory (LSTM) architectures, including a novel cross-modal LSTM
(X-LSTM), and demonstrate their superiority over baseline approaches. The
X-LSTM improves parameter efficiency by processing each modality separately and
allowing for information flow between them by way of recurrent
cross-connections. We present a general hyperparameter optimisation technique
for X-LSTMs, which allows us to significantly improve on the LSTM and a prior
state-of-the-art cross-modal approach, using a comparable number of parameters.
Finally, we visualise the model's predictions, revealing implications about
latent variables in this task.