arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

NEUROTOKEN: Joint Source and Directional AAD with Envelope Decoding via Conditional Flow Matching

The paper introduces NEUROTOKEN, a unified neural network for auditory attention decoding (AAD) that jointly predicts the attended speaker’s direction and source by modeling the conditional likelihood of the attended envelope given EEG. It employs a conditional flow‑matching head (ATTUNEFLOW) and two inference‑time ensembles (QUADTRACK and ENV‑FLOW) to improve source‑AAD accuracy and reduce variance across subjects. Experiments on KU Leuven, DTU, and NJU datasets show significant gains over existing baselines and reveal that prior direction‑AAD results overestimate performance under stricter protocols.

By Ali Alavi, Donald S. Williamson
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

Cross-subject decoding of imagined speech from scalp EEG: a leakage-controlled evaluation on three public corpora

The study evaluated whether imagined speech decoded from scalp EEG can transfer across individuals using three public datasets. Across 482 participant pairs, cross‑subject decoding accuracy was essentially at chance, while within‑subject decoding only surpassed chance in one dataset. The results suggest that imagined‑speech content does not generalize between people and that larger single‑condition datasets are more beneficial than further model development.

By Blessing Isoyiza Adeika, Onyema Osuagwu