arXiv Machine Learning

Bayesian Complete-Pooling in Cross-Subject Classification for Motor Imagery Electroencephalogram

arXiv:2607. 22980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have long sought calibration-free operation, but classifiers are typically benchmarked by discrimination alone, blind to whether predicted probabilities are well calibrated - a meaningful gap given nonstationary electroencephalogram (EEG) signals and the risk of overconfident point-estimate classifiers under distribution shift.

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
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
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Lightweight Adaptation of EEG Foundation Models for Stroke Motor Imagery Decoding: Domain Shift and Subject-Level Robustness

The study investigates whether Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) can adapt three pretrained EEG foundation models—LaBraM‑base, REVE‑base, and REVE‑large—for binary left‑ vs. right‑hand motor imagery decoding in stroke patients. Using subject‑wise five‑fold cross‑validation on the PhysioNet EEG Motor Movement/Imagery Dataset and a binary subset of the UET175 stroke dataset, LoRA significantly improved accuracy for LaBraM‑base (0.822) and REVE‑base (0.957) on the healthy cohort, but only REVE‑base LoRA achieved high performance (0.847±0.194) on stroke data, with a best mean accuracy of 0.952 in leave‑one‑subject‑out evaluation. The results demonstrate that healthy‑benchmark performance does not guarantee transfer to stroke EEG, highlighting the need for target‑domain adaptation and subject‑level assessment in rehabilitation BCIs.

By Anh T. Nguyen, Zihua Sun, Michelle J. Johnson
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Decoding Imagined Speech: A Strictly Subject-Independent Approach Using EEG

This study evaluates imagined speech decoding from EEG using a strictly subject‑independent framework. Two pipelines—time‑domain statistical features and frequency‑domain spectral bandpower—were compared with a random forest classifier; the spectral approach achieved higher trial‑wise accuracy (49.03 % vs. 37.97 %). Feature selection revealed that only a few frequency bands carried most discriminative information, providing a solid baseline for future cross‑subject BCI research.

By Frederik M{\o}llskov Trier, Xiaopeng Mao, Sadasivan Puthusserypady
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Sparse Bayesian Modeling of EEG Channel Interactions Improves P300 Brain-Computer Interface Performance

The paper introduces a sparse Bayesian time‑varying regression framework that models pairwise EEG channel interactions and performs temporal feature selection for P300 brain‑computer interfaces. Using a relaxed‑thresholded Gaussian process prior, the method achieves a median character‑level accuracy of 96.4% on a public P300 speller dataset and outperforms both statistical and deep learning baselines. It also yields subgroup‑specific gains, notably for participants who abstain from alcohol, and improves median BCI‑Utility by over 10%, reaching peak throughput after only six sequence repetitions.

By Guoxuan Ma, Yuan Zhong, Moyan Li, Yuxiao Nie, Jian Kang