arXiv Machine Learning

Universal BCI Personalization: One API for Frozen EEG Trunks and Foundation Models

arXiv:2607. 22397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frozen EEG encoders proliferate; per-model fine-tune defaults do not scale.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

OmniEEG-Bench: A Standardized Evaluation Benchmark for EEG Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 00815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) supports a variety of brain-computer interface (BCI) tasks ranging from brain-state monitoring to human-LLM interactions.

By Ziling Lu, Zongsheng Li, Xinke Shen, Kexin Lou, Yingyue Xin, Xiaoqi Chen, Shinan Wang, Xiang Chen, Jiahao Fan, Chenyu Huang, Xin Xu, Zhoujie Hou, Chen Wei, Quanying Liu
arXiv AI
Oct 12

ThinkNet: Evolutionary Deep Ensembles for Efficient Motor-Imagery EEG Classification

ThinkNet is a validation‑controlled framework that uses train‑only normalization, evolutionary search guided by validation, and validation‑gated inference to build compact motor‑imagery EEG decoders that generalize to unseen subjects. In a fixed benchmark on the BCI Competition IV‑2a dataset, the best single model achieved 44.35 % accuracy with only 4.9 k parameters, while a compact ensemble of six families reached 43.31 % accuracy. Across a broader search, models with ≤25 k parameters outperformed larger ones after retraining, but validation reliability remains a bottleneck under subject shift.

By Abdul Basit, Saim Rehman, Muhammad Shafique
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

BRIDGE-EEG: Bridging Self-Supervised Pretraining and Efficient Deployment for Cross-Dataset EEG Classification

BRIDGE-EEG is an efficient multi‑task EEG classification pipeline that leverages self‑supervised pretraining while dramatically reducing model size. It maps heterogeneous EEG recordings to a unified 62‑channel time‑frequency representation, pretrains an SE‑ResNet18 teacher with SimCLR, and distills it into smaller SE‑ResNet8 and SE‑ResNet4 students. The compact models achieve accuracy comparable to or better than larger foundation models on abnormality detection and emotion recognition, and they consume up to three times less energy on edge devices, enabling deployment on wearable hardware.

By Meghna Roy Chowdhury, Chengwei Zhou, Haotian Yu, Gourav Datta, Shreyas Sen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Dataset-Dependent Effects of Cross-Depth Aggregation and Soft-Routed Experts in EEG Foundation Model Fine-Tuning

The study investigates whether adding specialized modules—cross‑depth Attention Residuals (AttnRes) and soft‑routed expert banks—to a fully fine‑tuned EEG foundation model improves performance on various EEG decoding tasks. Across four datasets (FACED, ISRUC, SEED‑V, PhysioNet‑MI), AttnRes alone boosts mean balanced accuracy on three datasets, while the full model with experts only benefits two. However, these gains come with significant computational overhead, and the effects are dataset‑dependent rather than consistently positive.

By Mingyang Jiang, Yamin Li, Daniel Moyer, Fan Ma, Hua Xu, Catie Chang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

EEG-FM-Compass: Progress, Benchmarking, and Future Directions for EEG Foundation Models

arXiv:2601. 17883v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) foundation models (FMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for brain-computer interfaces, aiming to learn transferable neural representations from large-scale heterogeneous recordings.

By Dingkun Liu, Yuheng Chen, Zhu Chen, Zhenyao Cui, Yaozhi Wen, Jiayu An, Jingwei Luo, Dongrui Wu