English
Related papers

Related papers: Riding Brainwaves in LLM Space: Understanding Acti…

200 papers

EEG foundation models (EEG-FMs) have been evaluated predominantly on clean, in-distribution accuracy, leaving their robustness, interpretability and representational quality largely unexamined. This study addresses these gaps by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Urban Širca , Maryam Alimardani , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Konstantinos Barmpas

How the brain supports language across different languages is a basic question in neuroscience and a useful test for multilingual artificial intelligence. Neuroimaging has identified language-responsive brain regions across languages, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yang Cui , Jingyuan Sun , Yizheng Sun , Yifan Wang , Yunhao Zhang , Jixing Li , Shaonan Wang , Hongpeng Zhou , John Hale , Chengqing Zong , Goran Nenadic

Language-specific neurons in LLMs that strongly correlate with individual languages have been shown to influence model behavior by deactivating them. However, their role in amplification remains underexplored. This work investigates the…

Conventional biometrics have been employed in high security user authentication systems for over 20 years now. However, some of these modalities face low security issues in common practice. Brain wave based user authentication has emerged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Christos Stergiadis , Vasiliki-Despoina Kostaridou , Simeon Veloudis , Dimitrios Kazis , Manousos Klados

Electroencephalography (EEG) recordings of brain activity taken while participants read or listen to language are widely used within the cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics communities as a tool to study language comprehension.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Dan Schwartz , Tom Mitchell

Language and vision-language models have shown impressive performance across a wide range of tasks, but their internal mechanisms remain only partly understood. In this work, we study how individual attention heads in text-generative models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lorenzo Basile , Valentino Maiorca , Diego Doimo , Francesco Locatello , Alberto Cazzaniga

Linguistic information is encoded at varying timescales (subwords, phrases, etc.) and communicative levels, such as syntax and semantics. Contextualized embeddings have analogously been found to capture these phenomena at distinctive layers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Max Müller-Eberstein , Rob van der Goot , Barbara Plank

Predictive coding theory suggests that the brain continuously anticipates upcoming words to optimize language processing, but the neural mechanisms remain unclear, particularly in naturalistic speech. Here, we simultaneously recorded EEG…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-11 Nikola Kölbl , Konstantin Tziridis , Andreas Maier , Thomas Kinfe , Ricardo Chavarriaga , Achim Schilling , Patrick Krauss

Personalisation is a standard feature of conversational AI systems used by millions; yet, the efficacy of personalisation methods is often evaluated in academic research using simulated users rather than real people. This raises questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hannah Rose Kirk , Liu Leqi , Fanzhi Zeng , Henry Davidson , Bertie Vidgen , Christopher Summerfield , Scott A. Hale

There are individual differences in expressive behaviors driven by cultural norms and personality. This between-person variation can result in reduced emotion recognition performance. Therefore, personalization is an important step in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Minh Tran , Yufeng Yin , Mohammad Soleymani

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly explored as substitutes for human participants in cognitive tasks, but their ability to simulate human behavioral variability remains unclear. This study examines whether LLMs can approximate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Mengyang Qiu , Zoe Brisebois , Siena Sun

Physically Assistive Robots (PARs) require personalized behaviors to ensure user safety and comfort. However, traditional preference learning methods, like exhaustive pairwise comparisons, cause severe physical and cognitive fatigue for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Keshav Shankar , Dan Ding , Wei Gao

Decoding EEG signals is crucial for unraveling human brain and advancing brain-computer interfaces. Traditional machine learning algorithms have been hindered by the high noise levels and inherent inter-person variations in EEG signals.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Pengfei Sun , Jorg De Winne , Paul Devos , Dick Botteldooren

This paper introduces the Luca-Noise Reflex Protocol (LN-RP), a computational framework for analyzing noise-driven persona emergence in large language models. By injecting stochastic noise seeds into the initial generation state, we observe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Toshiyuki Shigemura

The ongoing revolution in language modeling has led to various novel applications, some of which rely on the emerging social abilities of large language models (LLMs). Already, many turn to the new cyber friends for advice during the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ivan Zakazov , Mikolaj Boronski , Lorenzo Drudi , Robert West

EEG-based person identification enables applications in security, personalized brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), and cognitive monitoring. However, existing techniques often rely on deep learning architectures at high computational cost,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zheyuan Lin , Siqi Cai , Haizhou Li

Recent work has shown that scaling large language models (LLMs) improves their alignment with human brain activity, yet it remains unclear what drives these gains and which representational properties are responsible. Although larger models…

A language is made up of an infinite/finite number of sentences, which in turn is composed of a number of words. The Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most popular noninvasive medical tool for studying heart function and diagnosing various…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Prapti Ganguly , Wazib Ansar , Amlan Chakrabarti

Recent advancements in Large Language Models have inspired the development of foundation models across various domains. In this study, we evaluate the efficacy of Large EEG Models (LEMs) by fine-tuning LaBraM, a state-of-the-art foundation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Siwen Wang , Shitou Zhang , Wan-Lin Chen , Dung Truong , Tzyy-Ping Jung

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as dominant foundational models in modern NLP. However, the understanding of their prediction processes and internal mechanisms, such as feed-forward networks (FFN) and multi-head self-attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xintong Wang , Xiaoyu Li , Xingshan Li , Chris Biemann