AI for Well-Being (AWB)

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AI for Well-Being (AWB)

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  • Proposal for BGI Nexus 1
  • Funding Request $50,000 USD
  • Funding Pools Beneficial AI Solutions
  • Total 4 Milestones

Overview

AI for Well-Being (AWB) is an AI service that leverages natural language processing (NLP) techniques to provide early intervention of mental health issues such as eating disorders, depression, and anxiety from text data. By analyzing language patterns, emotional cues, and contextual information from social media posts, messages, or other written content, AWB offers a solution to detect and classify mental health concerns. Its integration into the SingularityNET marketplace aligns with the platform’s vision of decentralized, impactful AI solutions, while the project’s focus on improving mental well-being complements the BGI’s commitment to promoting social good.

Proposal Description

How Our Project Will Contribute To The Growth Of The Decentralized AI Platform

AI for Well-Being (AWB) supports BGI's mission by addressing the growing mental health crisis, which is a social issue worldwide. AWB empowers individuals to seek help before problems escalate, particularly those who may not otherwise reach out. AWB’s scalable and accessible nature through SingularityNET ensures the benefit from timely mental health interventions, aligning with BGI's commitment to driving social good through impactful, accessible solutions.

Our Team

Our team is well-equipped to successfully execute the AWB proposal, with Khasyah, a software engineer and previous proposer funded in Deep Funding Round 4, and Pandu, a professional data scientist and machine learning engineer with extensive experience in building AI solutions. We have already identified the key dataset and model architecture needed for this project, ensuring that we can hit the ground running. Our lean team structure, allows us to work efficiently and deliver rapid development.

AI services (New or Existing)

Mental Health Risk Detection

Type

New AI service

Purpose

To detect and classify early signs of mental health conditions such as depression anxiety and eating disorders based on written text inputs. By analyzing linguistic patterns and emotional cues the service provides early insights for potential interventions.

AI inputs

User-generated text data (e.g. social media posts messages or forum entries). Raw text or preprocessed text containing phrases or conversations that might indicate mental health concerns.

AI outputs

Classification of the input text into specific mental health categories (e.g. "Depression" "Anxiety" "Eating Disorder" "No Concern")

The core problem we are aiming to solve

Mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, often go unnoticed until they reach critical stages, leading to severe consequences. Each year, over 10,200 deaths are linked to eating disorders, approximately 280 million people suffer from depression globally, with 301 million facing anxiety. AWB addresses this problem by analyzing text data from sources like social media posts or messages to identify early signs of these conditions. This solution not only helps individuals but also provides a low-barrier method for early detection that can integrate into various platforms, making mental health assessment more accessible and actionable.

Our specific solution to this problem

Our solution addresses the problem by leveraging a BERT-based natural language processing model, which is specifically fine-tuned to detect early signs of mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders from written text. First, we will gather and curate a diverse dataset from sources like social media posts and online forums, ensuring it contains well-labeled examples of various mental health conditions. This dataset will undergo rigorous preprocessing, including cleaning, tokenizing, and normalizing text, to remove noise while preserving important linguistic patterns that are indicative of mental health struggles. Once the data is prepared, we will train our BERT-based model to recognize these patterns and classify text into different mental health categories. The model will be optimized through hyperparameter tuning to maximize its accuracy across all conditions, with a focus on achieving high performance in identifying underrepresented mental health issues. This process ensures that the solution can detect subtle, early warning signs in user-generated text, enabling timely intervention and support.

Given the rapid evolution of the AI and Machine Learning field, we may adapt our model or implementation approach as new advancements emerge, while ensuring that the AWB service maintains high-quality and reliable output.

Open Source Licensing

Apache License

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  • Total Milestones

    4

  • Total Budget

    $50,000 USD

  • Last Updated

    24 Feb 2025

Milestone 1 - Dataset Preparation

Description

This milestone focuses on establishing the foundation of our mental health detection system by creating a comprehensive and well-structured dataset. The work involves gathering relevant mental health-related text data from multiple sources and organizing it into a format suitable for machine learning applications. This phase is crucial as it will determine the quality and effectiveness of our final model's ability to detect various mental health conditions.

Deliverables

- Collection of labeled text datasets from various sources containing mental health-related content with specific mental health conditions (e.g. depression anxiety eating disorders etc.) - Implement strict anonymization protocols to remove all usernames, personal identifiers, and sensitive information from collected posts, ensuring user privacy protection - Integration of multiple datasets into a unified format with consistent labeling for different mental health conditions - Dataset organization and splitting including: 1. Combining multiple dataset sources into a single coherent file 2. Creating balanced training (75%) validation (15%) and test (15%) sets 3. Ensuring proper class distribution across all splits for each condition (eating disorder anxiety depression etc.)

Budget

$15,000 USD

Success Criterion

- Clean, properly labeled dataset encompassing various mental health conditions - Balanced dataset splits (training/validation/test) with appropriate representation across all mental health categories

Milestone 2 - Preprocessing

Description

This milestone addresses the critical data preparation phase focusing on transforming raw text data into a clean standardized format suitable for machine learning model training. The preprocessing phase ensures that our model can effectively learn from the text data by removing noise and standardizing the input format while preserving the essential information needed for mental health condition detection.

Deliverables

- Implementation of comprehensive text cleaning procedures: 1. Text normalization through lowercasing to ensure consistent handling (e.g. "I'm worried" and "im worried" are treated the same) 2. Special character and non-alphanumeric content removal including punctuation marks and extra spaces 3. Social media user handle removal as usernames don't provide information about sentiment/mental health issues 4. Tokenization implementation based on model requirements 5. Stopword removal (e.g. "the" "is" "in") for dimensionality reduction 6. Emoji and slang conversion to textual representations 7. Spell checking and word normalization (e.g. "u" to "you" "lol" to "laughing") to ensure variations aren't treated as different words - Quality assurance checks on cleaned data - Documentation of preprocessing steps and procedures

Budget

$20,000 USD

Success Criterion

- Fully preprocessed and tokenized text data ready for model training - Consistent formatting across all dataset entries

Milestone 3 - Training

Description

This milestone encompasses the core machine learning phase of the project focusing on developing and optimizing a BERT-based model for mental health condition detection. This phase involves selecting and fine-tuning appropriate deep learning architectures implementing effective training strategies and ensuring the model achieves high performance across all mental health categories.

Deliverables

- Implementation of model architecture and training pipeline including selection and configuration of appropriate BERT-based model (e.g. ModernBERT or BERT) and implementation of cross-entropy loss function for multi-class or binary classification tasks - Comprehensive hyperparameter optimization through grid search or random search encompassing learning rate batch size number of epochs dropout rate and other relevant parameters followed by model training execution with the optimized configuration - Development of a robust evaluation framework with multiple metrics (accuracy precision recall and F1-score) with particular emphasis on analyzing performance for underrepresented mental health conditions (eating disorder anxiety etc.) - Complete documentation of model architecture training process and performance analysis including detailed reporting of optimization decisions and their impacts

Budget

$10,000 USD

Success Criterion

- Trained model demonstrating strong performance in classifying input text across all mental health categories (depression, anxiety, eating disorder, etc.), with particular attention to accuracy in minority classes - Comprehensive performance report including F1-score, precision, and recall metrics across all mental health conditions - Complete model deployment package including saved model weights, configuration files, and documentation for reproduction

Milestone 4 - Safety Review and Platform Deployment

Description

This milestone focuses on making the trained mental health detection model accessible and operational within the SingularityNET ecosystem. The deployment phase ensures that the model can be effectively utilized by users with proper integration into the platform's infrastructure and comprehensive testing to guarantee reliable performance.

Deliverables

- Ensure no user data is stored or retained after processing. By implementing strict data handling protocols that guarantee all user inputs are discarded immediately after the service processes them, with no persistent storage or logging of any user data at any stage. - Verify diverse representation in the training dataset across demographics, ensuring that the dataset includes a wide range of groups to promote fairness and reduce bias, while reflecting the varied nature of real-world data for better accuracy and inclusivity in model predictions. - Complete service configuration setup and deployment of the mental health issue detection service within the SingularityNET platform, including all necessary platform-specific adaptations and optimizations - Publication of the service to the SingularityNET marketplace, ensuring proper accessibility for both users and other AI agents - Execution of comprehensive testing including functionality verification, performance validation, reliability testing, and integration testing with other platform services to ensure robust operation - Development of complete documentation and support materials for service usage and maintenance

Budget

$5,000 USD

Success Criterion

- Successful deployment and accessibility verification on SingularityNET - Complete resolution of all testing-identified issues - Smooth operation within the SingularityNET environment

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