This survey reviews recent advances in converting non‑invasive EEG signals into images, text, and audio using generative AI techniques such as GANs, VAEs, transformers, and diffusion models. It summarizes datasets, feature‑encoding methods, evaluation metrics, and key challenges, noting that EEG‑to‑image models mainly use encoder‑decoder architectures, EEG‑to‑text leverages transformer language models, and EEG‑to‑audio maps signals to mel‑spectrograms for vocoder synthesis. The paper highlights the limitations of small, heterogeneous datasets, poor cross‑subject generalization, and the lack of standardized benchmarks, while providing open‑source resources to support reproducible research.
By Shreya Shukla, Jose Torres, Akshaj Murhekar, Christina Liu, Abhijit Mishra, Jacek Gwizdka, Shounak Roychowdhury
EEGDM introduces a self‑supervised framework that uses latent diffusion models to generate EEG signals, moving beyond traditional masked reconstruction. The method employs an EEG encoder to produce a compact representation that conditions the diffusion denoising process, allowing joint optimization of encoder and generator. Experiments demonstrate that EEGDM can reconstruct high‑quality EEG, learn robust representations, and perform competitively on various downstream tasks.
By Shaocong Wang, Tong Liu, Yihan Li, Ming Li, Kairui Wen, Pei Yang, Wenqi Ji, Minjing Yu, Yong-Jin Liu
arXiv:2607. 21384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) models used for epilepsy are often limited to specific datasets and tasks.
By Targol Bakhtiarvand, Jugal Kalita, Adham Atyabi
arXiv:2604. 01653v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) provides a non-invasive insight into the brain's cognitive and emotional dynamics.
By Sriram Sattiraju, Vaibhav Gollapalli, Aryan Shah, Timothy McMahan
arXiv:2608.24727v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: EEG foundation models pretrained via self-supervised learning promise transferable representations, but their generalization remains limited, especia...
By Meghal Dani, Stefanie Liebe
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
arXiv:2509. 17920v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current deep learning models for electroencephalography (EEG) are often task-specific and depend on large labeled datasets, limiting their adaptability.
By Jamiyan Sukhbaatar, Satoshi Imamura, Ibuki Inoue, Shoya Murakami, Kazi Mahmudul Hassan, Seungwoo Han, Ingon Chanpornpakdi, Toshihisa Tanaka
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
The paper presents a reproducible single‑subject baseline for reconstructing visual stimuli from EEG using a temporal‑spatial convolutional encoder that maps averaged EEG signals to 512‑dimensional ViT-B/32 image features. On the THINGS‑EEG2 dataset, the model achieves 12.83%, 39.17%, and 58.00% image recall at ranks 1, 5, and 10, respectively, outperforming analytical chance levels. The study also shows that performance drops sharply when applying a model trained on one subject to others, and that direct conditional generators without external visual weights produce noise‑dominated outputs, indicating that only coarse semantic decoding is feasible under the tested protocol.
By Harshit Goyal
arXiv:2609.20904v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Hybrid motor-imagery brain-computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) combining EEG and fNIRS can outperform EEG-only systems by exploiting complementary electrop...
By Boyuan Zhao, Sifan Zhang, Luping Chen
EEG foundation models pretrained via self-supervised learning promise transferable representations, but their generalization remains limited, especially across diverse clinical datasets. Full fine-tun...
arXiv:2609.36609v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis requires careful choices in preprocessing, statistical modeling, and machine learning because EEG signals are h...
By Parsa Razmara, Woojae Jeong, Aditya Kommineni, Raymundo Cassani, Richard Leahy, Takfarinas Medani