arXiv Machine Learning

Subject-Specific Analysis of Self-Initiated Attention Shifts from EEG with Controlled Internal and External Attention Conditions

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 AI
1d 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
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 15

EEG-Xplain: Decoding Neural Black-Boxes of EEG Foundation Models

EEG-Xplain introduces a unified attribution framework to interpret EEG foundation models such as BIOT, LaBraM, and EEGMamba. The framework combines gradient, perturbation, and activation-based methods to analyze model behavior across spatial, temporal, and frequency dimensions, identifying critical channels, decision-relevant signal segments, and contributions of canonical EEG rhythms. It evaluates explanation reliability with population-level metrics and uses large language models to convert structured attributions into natural-language reports, demonstrating consistency with known neurophysiological markers on benchmark datasets.

By Hansong Ma, Junxiao Wang