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 Machine Learning
Oct 22

BrainPro: Process-conditioned Pretraining with Topographic Retrieval for Large EEG Models

BrainPro is a process‑conditioned self‑supervised pretraining framework for large EEG models that addresses two underexplored challenges: the underuse of mental‑process cues in masked pretraining and the variability of electrode montages across datasets. It maps dataset‑specific montages to a universal channel‑region template, retrieves spatial filters to create a topographically aligned basis, and learns a shared encoder along with process‑specific branches conditioned on protocol cues. Experiments on nine public BCI benchmarks show that BrainPro outperforms baselines, with ablations indicating that topographic retrieval and process‑conditioned representation learning jointly enhance EEG decoding.

By Yi Ding, Muyun Jiang, Weibang Jiang, Shuailei Zhang, Xinliang Zhou, Chenyu Liu, Shanglin Li, Yong Li, Cuntai Guan
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

BrainCodes: A Lightweight EEG Foundation Model over Discrete Neural Codes

BrainCodes is a lightweight EEG foundation model that uses a quantization-based neural tokenizer and a spatiotemporal encoder to learn transferable EEG features from over 800 hours of data across more than 1,000 participants. The model is pretrained with a self‑supervised objective that encourages spatial connectivity and sensitivity to narrowband neural oscillations, enabling it to match or surpass state‑of‑the‑art performance on tasks such as sleep staging, attention assessment, and cognitive load estimation. It achieves these results while using up to 97% fewer trainable parameters, making it suitable for low‑resource wearable devices, and its evaluation framework analyzes the geometry and invariances of the learned representations.

By Kleanthis Avramidis, Ivan Tashev, Dimitra Emmanouilidou
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

iMINDBench: iEEG Multi-Institution Neural Decoding Benchmark

iMINDBench is a new benchmark for intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) neural decoding that evaluates models on fifteen tasks across three naturalistic movie‑watching datasets from multiple institutions. It standardizes preprocessing tracks and evaluation splits to enable consistent comparisons. The study shows that pretrained systems outperform baselines within their tracks, but strong spectral baselines remain competitive, and scaling up supervised data yields only modest or task‑dependent gains.

By Geeling Chau, Saba Hashemi, Yonghyeon Gwon, Eshani Patel, Jan DeWitt, Christopher Wang, Andrii Zahorodnii, Sabera J Talukder, Danny Dongyeop Han, Chun Kee Chung, Maryam M Shanechi, Yisong Yue