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CRCC: Contrast-Based Robust Cross-Subject and Cross-Site Representation Learning for EEG

Neurons and Cognition 2026-02-24 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

EEG-based neural decoding models often fail to generalize across acquisition sites due to structured, site-dependent biases implicitly exploited during training. We reformulate cross-site clinical EEG learning as a bias-factorized generalization problem, in which domain shifts arise from multiple interacting sources. We identify three fundamental bias factors and propose a general training framework that mitigates their influence through data standardization and representation-level constraints. We construct a standardized multi-site EEG benchmark for Major Depressive Disorder and introduce CRCC, a two-stage training paradigm combining encoder-decoder pretraining with joint fine-tuning via cross-subject/site contrastive learning and site-adversarial optimization. CRCC consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines and achieves a 10.7 percentage-point improvement in balanced accuracy under strict zero-shot site transfer, demonstrating robust generalization to unseen environments.

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@article{arxiv.2602.19138,
  title  = {CRCC: Contrast-Based Robust Cross-Subject and Cross-Site Representation Learning for EEG},
  author = {Xiaobin Wong and Zhonghua Zhao and Haoran Guo and Zhengyi Liu and Yu Wu and Feng Yan and Zhiren Wang and Sen Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19138},
  year   = {2026}
}

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