LiteEMG-FM is an efficient hybrid CNN‑Transformer foundation model designed for electromyography (EMG) sensing. It is pretrained on 16 diverse upper‑ and lower‑limb EMG datasets, enabling representations that generalize across users and datasets. The model incorporates a lightweight, always‑on 1D‑CNN wake‑up module that filters rest and non‑target activity, activating LiteEMG‑FM only for valid gestures, and is evaluated in full inference offloading, split inference, and full on‑device processing scenarios, showing superior performance over state‑of‑the‑art time‑series foundation models and supervised baselines, especially in zero‑calibration cross‑participant and data‑scarce conditions.
By Tianhao Wu, Xu Wu, Amirmohammad Radmehr, Jiawei Yu, Yi Wu, Phuc Nguyen, Jian Liu
arXiv:2601. 04181v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable long-term decoding of gestures from surface electromyography (EMG) is hindered by signal drift caused by electrode displacement, muscle fatigue, and/or posture changes.
By Nia Touko, Matthew O A Ellis, Cristiano Capone, Alessio Burrello, Elisa Donati, Luca Manneschi
arXiv:2508. 17742v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Electroencephalography foundation models (EEG-FMs) have advanced brain signal analysis, but the lack of standardized evaluation benchmarks impedes model comparison and scientific progress.
By Wei Xiong, Jiangtong Li, Jie Li, Kun Zhu, Changjun Jiang
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:2610.32674v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Wireless electromyography (EMG) interfaces must balance electrode coverage against transmission bandwidth. Here, we show that compact EMG tokens subs...
By Raul C. S\^impetru, Amin Olamazadeh, Devon Rohlf, Vlad Cnejevici, Alessandro Del Vecchio
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
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:2601. 10191v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated analysis of needle electromyography (nEMG) signals is emerging as a tool to support the detection of neuromuscular diseases (NMDs), yet the signals' high and heterogeneous sampling rates pose substantial computational challenges for feature-based machine-learning models, particularly for near real-time analysis.
By Mathieu Cherpitel, Janne Luijten, Thomas B\"ack, Camiel Verhamme, Martijn Tannemaat, Anna V. Kononova
arXiv:2609.25582v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Public surface electromyography (EMG) datasets vary widely in electrode layout, channel count, frequency support, and size. Simply mixing them for pret...
By Yuwei Jia, Cheng Zhong, Jinyang Yu, Zhe Cui
PPG-Bench is an open‑source benchmark that evaluates five publicly available photoplethysmography (PPG) foundation models across nine datasets and 26 tasks, covering cardiovascular state estimation, activity, sleep, screening, and identification. The benchmark tests models under four downstream regimes—linear probing, random forests, frozen MLP probes, and end‑to‑end finetuning—while also comparing them to three controls: a random/constant baseline, a deterministic pulse‑rate‑variability feature set, and a generic time‑series foundation model (MOMENT). Results show that over a third of task‑regime combinations yield no advantage for any PPG foundation model over the baseline, and in most cases no PPG‑specific model outperforms the simple controls, indicating that current PPG foundation models lack generalised, transferable representations.
By Arvasu Kulkarni, Mahir Jain, Aditya Ray Mishra, Sandeep Singh, Siddharth Panwar
arXiv:2608. 06122v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inspired by recent evidence that transformer architectures benefit from Self-PreTraining (SPT) on long-context benchmarks, we investigate whether similar gains extend to multimodal, multivariate, and even simple univariate medical time series.
By Omar Coser, Antonio Orvieto, Paolo Soda, Loredana Zollo
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