arXiv AI

Backpropagation-Free Test-Time Adaptation for Lightweight EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces

arXiv:2601. 07556v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) face significant deployment challenges due to inter-subject variability, signal non-stationarity, and computational constraints.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

Test-Time Adaptation for EEG Foundation Models: A Systematic Study under Real-World Distribution Shifts

arXiv:2604. 16926v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) foundation models have shown strong potential for learning generalizable representations from large-scale neural data, yet their clinical deployment is hindered by distribution shifts across clinical settings, devices, and populations.

By Gabriel Jason Lee, Jathurshan Pradeepkumar, Jimeng Sun
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

OOD Detection for EEG-based Machine Learning in High-Risk Environments

The paper introduces a benchmark for out‑of‑distribution (OOD) detection in electroencephalography (EEG) machine learning, evaluates a wide range of OOD methods, and assesses their impact on two clinical downstream prediction tasks. It distinguishes between OOD detection and model uncertainty estimation, which are often conflated, and shows how combining complementary methods can create a robust safety net for deploying EEG‑based models in high‑risk settings.

By Philipp Bomatter, Henry Gouk
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Brain4FMs: A Benchmark of Foundation Models for Electrical Brain Signal

Brain4FMs is a unified benchmark for evaluating brain foundation models (BFMs) on both scalp EEG and intracranial EEG (iEEG). It incorporates 17 representative models and 21 public datasets spanning clinical diagnosis, sleep staging, communication, and affective computing, and offers dataset-aware preprocessing, cross‑subject evaluation, and standardized downstream workflows. The benchmark highlights that no single BFM consistently outperforms others across all tasks, modalities, and adaptation protocols, prompting further exploratory analyses of model‑specific spatial, spectral, and discrete representations.

By Fanqi Shen, Enhong Yang, Jiahe Li, Junru Hong, Xiaoran Pan, Zhizhang Yuan, Meng Li, Yang Yang
arXiv AI
Sep 2

EEG-AS: Instance-Level Foundation Model Selection for EEG Foundation Models via Behavior Reconstruction

EEG-AS is an instance-level algorithm selection framework designed for EEG foundation models. It characterizes each EEG instance using latent embeddings, handcrafted neurophysiological features, and an anchor foundation model, then learns to reconstruct the behaviors of other foundation models from privileged prediction tokens. During inference, EEG-AS estimates these behaviors without running the full model portfolio, enabling efficient selection among seven EEG foundation models and significantly reducing the performance gap between the single best solver and the oracle upper bound across seven public EEG benchmarks.

By Yunzhen Zhang, Ruoxi Piao, Hasan Onur Keles, Mustafa Misir
arXiv AI
3d ago

NeuroAtlas: Benchmarking Foundation Models for Clinical EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

NeuroAtlas is the largest EEG benchmark to date, comprising 42 datasets and 260,000 hours of clinical EEG data across epilepsy, sleep medicine, brain age estimation, and brain‑computer interfaces. The study evaluates foundation models (FMs) for EEG against supervised baselines and generic time‑series FMs, finding that EEG‑specific FMs do not consistently outperform generic ones. It also demonstrates that standard machine‑learning metrics are inadequate for clinical relevance, advocating for task‑specific measures such as event‑level decision quality, hypnogram features, and brain‑age gap.

By Konstantinos Kontras, Trui Osselaer, Stylianos G. Mouslech, Angeliki-Ilektra Karaiskou, Guido Gagliardi, Thomas Strypsteen, Mohammad Hossein Badiei, Anku Rani, Maarten Vanmarcke, Miguel Bhagubai, Chanakya Ekbote, Jaedong Hwang, Christos Chatzichristos, Paul Pu Liang, Maarten De Vos