arXiv Machine Learning

Physiological Noise Augmentation Improves Non-Invasive Brain-to-Speech

arXiv:2607. 05165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-invasive brain-to-speech decoding aims to restore communication to patients suffering from neurodegenerative disease, without the risks of neurosurgery.

arXiv AI
Aug 20

Accurate Decoding of Natural Sentences from Non-Invasive Brain Recordings

Brain2Qwerty v2 is a model that decodes natural sentences from real‑time magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings, achieving an average word error rate of 39% across 22,000 sentences typed by nine subjects. The model uses character, word, and sentence‑level representations and shows that decoding accuracy improves log‑linearly with more data, narrowing the gap to intracranial brain‑computer interfaces. AI contributes by replacing hand‑crafted event detection with deep learning, fine‑tuning large language models for semantic extraction, and employing AI agents to refine the decoding pipeline through automated code development.

By Mingfang Zhang, Jarod L\'evy, Cedric Rommel, J\'er\'emy Rapin, Corentin Bel, Julie Bonnaire, Daniel Nieto, Pierre Bourdillon, Svetlana Pinet, St\'ephane d'Ascoli, Thomas Moreau, Jean-R\'emi King
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Cross-Subject Generalization in Decoding Perceived Speech from Non-Invasive Brain Recordings

The paper introduces a Cross-Subject Perceived Speech Decoding (CPSD) framework that tackles the challenge of decoding perceived speech from non‑invasive brain recordings across different subjects. CPSD uses a two‑stage training process: first, contrastive learning pre‑trains a source model on multiple subjects to capture shared representations; second, personal specialization fine‑tunes the model for a target subject by extracting consistent components and further training on that subject’s data. A Positional Encoding‑based Spatial Attention (PESA) module is added to remap MEG/EEG data into a standardized reference space, improving cross‑subject consistency. Evaluations on three datasets (Armeni 2022, PKUEEG 2025, Broderick 2018) show that CPSD outperforms baseline methods by more than 6.8%, 15.4%, and 15.8% in Top‑10 accuracy, demonstrating its effectiveness, efficiency, and robustness.

By Aoke Zhang, Bo Wang, Xihong Wu, Heping Cheng, Jing Chen
arXiv Computation and Language
4d ago

From Neurons to Conversation: Speech Brain-Computer Interfaces

arXiv:2609.36736v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to restore communication by transforming neural activity related to speech, language, or communicative in...

By Moein Khajehnejad, Forough Habibollahi, Tommaso Boccato, Margarida Sousa, Michal Olak, Francesco Jamal Sheiban, Matteo Ferrante
arXiv AI
6d ago

Subject-Invariant Cross-Modal Decoding of Perceived Speech from Brain Recordings

The paper introduces the Subject-Invariant Cross-Modal Perceived Speech Decoding (SICMD) method, which fuses fMRI and MEG data to decode perceived speech from non‑invasive brain signals. Comprehensive experiments show that SICMD improves Top‑1, Top‑10, and Rankacc scores by over 10%, 10%, and 1.7% respectively, while cutting training costs by 88.8% and 60.5% compared to existing multi‑subject and intra‑subject approaches. Visualizations further confirm the method’s effectiveness.

By Aoke Zhang, Jing Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

LibriBrain100: One Hundred Hours of Broad and Deep MEG Data for Neural Speech Decoding at Scale

LibriBrain100 is a new large‑scale MEG dataset for speech decoding that contains over 100 hours of high‑quality recordings while subjects listened to naturalistic continuous speech. The dataset more than doubles the size of the original LibriBrain release, with a record 80 hours from a single subject and additional 40‑minute recordings from 32 subjects. The authors demonstrate the value of deep within‑subject data and broad multi‑subject data by achieving state‑of‑the‑art word‑classification performance and showing that supervised fine‑tuning can compensate for limited per‑subject data, all supported by open‑source tools and a public competition leaderboard.

By Francesco Mantegna, Dulhan Jayalath, Gereon Elvers, Tasha Kim, Benjamin Ballyk, Alex Fung, SungJun Cho, Teyun Kwon, Luisa Kurth, Miran \"Ozdogan, Gilad Landau, Pratik Somaiya, Natalie Voets, Mark Woolrich, Oiwi Parker Jones