Evaluating performance bias in face-to-BMI vision transformer models across diverse human populations
J C Hoffman, Michael Gurven, Hillard S Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Bret Beheim, Paul L. Hooper, Richard B. Lee, Julia R. Phelps, Kim Hill, Brian F. Codding, Simon Brewer, Yvonne Ai Lian Lim, Amanda J. Lea, Ian J. Wallace, , Thomas S. Kraft
This study evaluates how face-to-BMI Vision Transformer models perform across diverse human populations, finding that training on population-specific data improves accuracy, while global training data enhances performance in underrepresented groups.
bioRxiv · Sep 4, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics