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Inertia-1: An Open Exploration to a Unified Motion Foundation Model

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A single accelerometry backbone pretrained self-supervised on 18M+ hours transfers zero-shot across body placements and even unseen sensor modalities (gyroscope, magnetometer), holding accuracy down to 1Hz sampling with 30–60s windows as the sweet spot. If you build wearable/IMU pipelines, this replaces per-placement, per-task bespoke models with one adaptable representation—cutting retraining and labeling costs—but note the practical constraints: keep full triaxial input rather than vector-magnitude, use time-domain modeling for gait/health signals, and bump sampling rate for fine-grained clinical tasks.

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