arXiv Machine Learning

Leakage-Audited Benchmarking Reveals Limited Evidence for Cross-Subject Auditory-Evoked EEG Vowel Perception Decoding

arXiv:2605. 00865v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We tested whether auditory-evoked EEG supports subject-independent five-vowel perception decoding when trial identity, model identity, prediction provenance, and participant-level inference are controlled within a single benchmark.

arXiv AI
Aug 6

BrainBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Comprehensive EEG Understanding

arXiv:2608. 04156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) analysis extends beyond assigning predefined labels to recordings; it requires workflows connecting natural-language instructions, signal processing, quantitative evidence, and scientific interpretation.

By Yangxuan Zhou, Sha Zhao, Yuning Chen, Chen Wu, Jiquan Wang, Shijian Li, Gang Pan
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 Machine Learning
1d ago

NEUROTOKEN: Joint Source and Directional AAD with Envelope Decoding via Conditional Flow Matching

The paper introduces NEUROTOKEN, a unified neural network for auditory attention decoding (AAD) that jointly predicts the attended speaker’s direction and source by modeling the conditional likelihood of the attended envelope given EEG. It employs a conditional flow‑matching head (ATTUNEFLOW) and two inference‑time ensembles (QUADTRACK and ENV‑FLOW) to improve source‑AAD accuracy and reduce variance across subjects. Experiments on KU Leuven, DTU, and NJU datasets show significant gains over existing baselines and reveal that prior direction‑AAD results overestimate performance under stricter protocols.

By Ali Alavi, Donald S. Williamson