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arxiv: 2605.27583 · v1 · pith:MYSEVK4Wnew · submitted 2026-05-26 · 💻 cs.LG

Information-theoretic Multimodal Representation Learning for Electrocardiogram Signals

Phu X. Nguyen , Konstantinos Kontras , Wei Dai , Huy Phan , Christos Chatzichristos , Paul Pu Liang , Bert Vandenberk , Maarten De Vos This is my paper

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keywords ECG representation learningmultimodal learninginformation theorycontrastive alignmentmasked modelingclinical semanticsPTB-XL benchmark
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MERIT derives a tractable information-theoretic objective for ECG representations that preserves physiological structure while integrating clinical semantics from reports.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper claims that clinical reports often fail to capture the full physiological detail in ECG waveforms across coarse and fine abstraction levels. It therefore formulates representation learning as an information-theoretic problem and derives an objective that keeps signal structure intact while adding diagnostic meaning from text. This principle produces MERIT, a dual-branch pretraining setup that pairs masked ECG modeling with ECG-text contrastive alignment. Experiments on PTB-XL and other sets report gains above 3% F1 on All classification, 5% F1 on SubClass, and up to 2.66% AUC in zero-shot use, plus better downstream text generation. A sympathetic reader would see this as a route to representations that support finer clinical distinctions without depending entirely on incomplete reports.

Core claim

By deriving a tractable information-theoretic objective that jointly preserves the rich physiological structure of ECG waveforms across multiple abstraction levels and integrates clinical semantics, the dual-branch MERIT framework produces representations that outperform prior methods on PTB-XL All and SubClass tasks by more than 3% and 5% F1 respectively, with additional gains in zero-shot AUC and robustness under distribution shift.

What carries the argument

The tractable information-theoretic objective that jointly preserves signal structure at multiple levels while integrating clinical semantics, implemented via a dual-branch pretraining framework of masked ECG modeling and ECG-text contrastive alignment.

If this is right

  • Consistent outperformance on fine-grained ECG classification tasks such as PTB-XL SubClass.
  • Improved zero-shot performance up to +2.66% AUC and +2.11% F1 on PTB-XL SubClass.
  • Greater robustness across multiple distribution-shift settings.
  • Higher quality ECG-conditioned clinical text generation measured by ROUGE and METEOR.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same objective could be tested on other time-series biosignals where accompanying text is similarly incomplete.
  • If the objective remains tractable at scale, it might reduce reliance on large paired datasets for other medical modalities.
  • The dual-branch design invites direct comparison against single-branch contrastive or masked-only baselines on the same data.

Load-bearing premise

A tractable information-theoretic objective can be derived that jointly preserves the rich physiological structure of ECG waveforms across multiple abstraction levels while integrating clinical semantics from reports that often fail to preserve that structure.

What would settle it

Reproducing the PTB-XL experiments and failing to observe gains exceeding 3% F1 on All classification or 2.66% AUC in zero-shot SubClass settings would falsify the claim that the derived objective yields more informative representations.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.27583 by Bert Vandenberk, Christos Chatzichristos, Huy Phan, Konstantinos Kontras, Maarten De Vos, Paul Pu Liang, Phu X. Nguyen, Wei Dai.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the proposed ECG-text multimodal representation learning framework. Given a 12-lead ECG signal and corresponding clinical notes, the model learns a shared representa￾tion via two complementary objectives. An information maximization (InfoMax) formulation that reconstructs the masked ECG signal using reconstruction loss and aligns ECG and text representations via a cross-modal alignment (CMA) lo… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of ECG-conditioned clinical text generation. ECG representations extracted from the pretrained ECG encoder are projected into the LLM via a fusion/bridge module following MedTVT-R1 [38] and used as conditioning signals for clinically grounded text generation. Matching colors indicate semantically aligned clinical findings between the generated response and the reference report. Displayed texts… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: ECG–Text embedding alignment across methods. Visualization of the shared represen￾tation space on the MIMIC validation set (15,223 ECG–Text pairs). Our method achieves strong cross-modal alignment while maintaining ECG representations with richer ECG modality-specific information and higher mutual information (MI) between ECG and text embeddings. CMA also preserves some unique ECG information, but to a les… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: UMAP visualization of ECG representations on the PTB-XL Rhythm dataset. ECG embeddings learned by different variants are projected into 2 dimensions and colored by the 12 rhythms. Compared with CMA and IB-based variants, the proposed MERIT framework produces more compact intra-class clusters and clearer inter-class separation across rhythm categories. For example, the rare rhythm PACE forms a more clearly … view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are widely used non-invasive measurements of cardiac activity and play a central role in clinical diagnosis. Recent multimodal approaches align ECG signals with clinical reports to incorporate diagnostic semantics, but clinical reports often fail to preserve the rich physiological structure of ECG waveforms, particularly across multiple levels of abstraction ranging from coarse diagnostic categories to fine-grained morphology. To address this limitation, we formulate ECG representation learning from an information-theoretic perspective and derive a tractable objective that jointly preserves signal structure and integrates clinical semantics. Based on this principle, we propose \textbf{MERIT} (Multimodal ECG Representation via Information Theory), a dual-branch pretraining framework combining masked ECG modeling with ECG--text contrastive alignment. Extensive experiments on PTB-XL and additional benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements over prior methods, including gains exceeding $3%$ F1 on PTB-XL All and $5%$ F1 on SubClass classification. In zero-shot evaluation, MERIT further improves performance by up to $ +2.66\%$ AUC and $ +2.11\%$ F1 on PTB-XL SubClass, while also demonstrating robustness under multiple distribution-shift settings. Moreover, leveraging the learned ECG representations for ECG-conditioned clinical text generation with large language models improves text quality across several metrics, including ROUGE and METEOR. Together, these results demonstrate that MERIT learns more informative and clinically meaningful ECG representations, particularly for fine-grained clinical applications.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims that clinical reports often fail to capture fine-grained ECG waveform structure across abstraction levels, and addresses this by deriving a tractable information-theoretic objective for joint signal-structure preservation (via masked modeling) and semantic alignment (via contrastive ECG-text learning). It proposes the MERIT dual-branch framework and reports consistent gains over baselines on PTB-XL (exceeding 3% F1 on All classification, 5% F1 on SubClass) plus up to +2.66% AUC in zero-shot settings, robustness under distribution shift, and improved ECG-conditioned text generation metrics.

Significance. If the central derivation is sound and the empirical gains are attributable to the proposed objective rather than implementation details, the work would offer a principled multimodal approach to ECG representation learning that explicitly targets the mismatch between report semantics and waveform morphology. The combination of masked modeling with contrastive alignment, together with the reported improvements in fine-grained and zero-shot tasks, could influence downstream clinical applications and LLM-based text generation from ECGs.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim rests on a tractable information-theoretic objective that jointly preserves ECG waveform structure across multiple abstraction levels while aligning to clinical reports; yet the abstract itself states that those reports often fail to preserve the very structure to be preserved. No derivation is supplied showing how the mutual-information terms recover or enforce missing morphological details without circularity or additional inductive biases.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the reported gains (e.g., >3% F1 on PTB-XL All, >5% F1 on SubClass, +2.66% AUC zero-shot) are presented without reference to specific baselines, ablation controls, or error analysis that would establish attribution to the information-theoretic objective versus standard masked modeling or contrastive components.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract uses the term 'parameter-free' in describing the objective but supplies no supporting equations or definitions; any such claim should be accompanied by explicit notation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major point below, clarifying the information-theoretic derivation and experimental attribution while proposing targeted revisions to the abstract.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim rests on a tractable information-theoretic objective that jointly preserves ECG waveform structure across multiple abstraction levels while aligning to clinical reports; yet the abstract itself states that those reports often fail to preserve the very structure to be preserved. No derivation is supplied showing how the mutual-information terms recover or enforce missing morphological details without circularity or additional inductive biases.

    Authors: The abstract is a high-level summary; the full derivation appears in Section 3. The objective decomposes into two independent terms: (i) a masked modeling loss that maximizes mutual information between observed and masked ECG segments to preserve waveform structure at multiple abstraction levels without any dependence on reports, and (ii) a contrastive term that aligns the resulting representations to report semantics. Because structure preservation is achieved solely through the signal reconstruction pathway, the approach avoids circularity; reports supply complementary semantics rather than the morphological details themselves. We will revise the abstract to explicitly separate these two mechanisms. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the reported gains (e.g., >3% F1 on PTB-XL All, >5% F1 on SubClass, +2.66% AUC zero-shot) are presented without reference to specific baselines, ablation controls, or error analysis that would establish attribution to the information-theoretic objective versus standard masked modeling or contrastive components.

    Authors: The main text (Sections 4 and 5) provides comparisons against the exact baselines referenced in the referee summary, together with ablations that isolate the contribution of the joint objective and error analysis across distribution-shift settings. To improve clarity we will augment the abstract with a concise reference to the primary baselines and note that full controls appear in the experimental section. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity identified; derivation presented as independent information-theoretic construction

full rationale

The abstract states that the authors formulate representation learning from an information-theoretic perspective and derive a tractable objective jointly preserving signal structure via masked modeling and integrating semantics via contrastive alignment. No equations are visible that reduce this objective to fitted parameters, self-definitions, or prior self-citations by construction. The dual-branch MERIT framework is introduced as following from the derived principle rather than presupposing its outputs. No load-bearing self-citation chains, ansatz smuggling, or renaming of known results are exhibited in the provided text. The central claim therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks and does not reduce to its inputs by definition.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review yields no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the information-theoretic objective and dual-branch architecture are presented at high level without enumerated assumptions or new postulated quantities.

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