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arXiv Machine Learning By Philip H. Lee, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Karan Thakkar, John H. L. Hansen

AFA-Net: A Differential Attention Approach for Auditory Attention Detection

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AFA‑Net introduces a differential attention mechanism to improve Auditory Attention Detection (AAD) from EEG signals, explicitly targeting noisy data. The framework outperforms existing deep learning models, achieving 96.8% accuracy within a 2‑second decision window while using fewer parameters. It represents one of the first approaches to actively mitigate EEG noise in AAD tasks.

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