arXiv Machine Learning

NeuroPriv: Adversarial Representation Learning for Privacy in Wearable EEG Systems

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Differentially Private EEG Feature Anonymization: A Privacy-Utility Case Study in Clinical Neurophysiology

The paper investigates how subject‑level differential privacy (DP) can anonymize EEG‑derived feature representations while preserving clinical utility. It evaluates Gaussian and Laplace perturbations across three deployment scenarios—client‑side, server‑side, and decentralized local training—using statistical utility metrics and a downstream machine‑learning task. Results indicate that DP can be integrated into EEG workflows, but the choice of mechanism, privacy parameters, and sensitivity calibration critically affects data utility, especially in small, imbalanced clinical datasets.

By Noman Sadiq, Mohsen Toorani
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

SW-ProxyCE: Zero-Query Adversarial Transfer from Public EEG Encoders to Private Downstream Models

The paper introduces SW-ProxyCE, a zero-query adversarial attack that exploits publicly released EEG foundation encoders to generate transferable adversarial examples for private downstream models. By using a small labeled reference set and shrinkage-whitened class prototypes, the method recovers task-level decision geometry without training a surrogate classifier. Experiments across three EEG tasks and multiple encoders show that SW-ProxyCE consistently outperforms task-agnostic attacks, demonstrating that the strong transferability of EEG foundation models does not guarantee adversarial robustness.

By Linhua Cong, Dingkun Liu, Dongrui Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

Making Brain-Computer Interfaces More Secure

arXiv:2606. 02597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) based on electroencephalograms (EEGs) has advanced significantly mainly to machine learning.

By Md Fahimul Kabir Chowdhury, Gahangir Hossain
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

EEG Foundation Challenge: From Cross-Task to Cross-Subject EEG Decoding

arXiv:2506. 19141v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current electroencephalogram (EEG) decoding models are typically trained on small numbers of subjects performing a single task.

By Bruno Aristimunha, Dung Truong, Pierre Guetschel, Seyed Yahya Shirazi, Isabelle Guyon, Alexandre R. Franco, Michael P. Milham, Aviv Dotan, Scott Makeig, Alexandre Gramfort, Jean-Remi King, Marie-Constance Corsi, Pedro A. Vald\'es-Sosa, Amit Majumdar, Alan Evans, Terrence J Sejnowski, Oren Shriki, Sylvain Chevallier, Arnaud Delorme
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

A spectral audit framework reveals task-dependent aperiodic reliance across EEG and ECG deep learning

arXiv:2606. 08583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning on physiological time series is interpreted through domain-specific features -- oscillatory rhythms in EEG, morphological complexes in ECG -- yet these signals sit atop a broadband aperiodic 1/f-like envelope that covaries with arousal, age, and pathology.

By Jasmeet Singh Bindra, Siddharth Panwar, Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Hidden In Plain Gaze: Gaze Representations as Privacy Controls for Utility and Re-identification Risk in XR

The paper investigates how different gaze data representations affect privacy and utility in extended reality (XR) systems. Three representations—raw gaze, spatial attention heatmaps, and engineered eye‑movement features—are compared using the HoloAssist dataset, evaluating action recognition accuracy and closed‑set user re‑identification. Engineered features preserve about 85% of action‑recognition performance while reducing re‑identification risk by roughly an order of magnitude, yet still leave some identity leakage, indicating that abstraction alone does not guarantee privacy.

By Cory Ilo, Brendan-David John, Doug A. Bowman