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To handle the scarcity and heterogeneity of electroencephalography (EEG) data for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) tasks, and to harness the power of large publicly available data sets, we propose Neuro-GPT, a foundation model consisting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Wenhui Cui , Woojae Jeong , Philipp Thölke , Takfarinas Medani , Karim Jerbi , Anand A. Joshi , Richard M. Leahy

Evaluating foundation models under appropriate adaptation settings is essential for understanding the quality and transferability of the learned representations. Recent EEG foundation models have demonstrated promising transfer capabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Aditya Kommineni , Emily Zhou , Kleanthis Avramidis , Tiantian Feng , Shrikanth Narayanan

Electroencephalography (EEG) interpretation using multimodal large language models (MLLMs) offers a novel approach for analyzing brain signals. However, the complex nature of brain activity introduces critical challenges: EEG signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Ziyi Zeng , Zhenyang Cai , Yixi Cai , Xidong Wang , Junying Chen , Rongsheng Wang , Yipeng Liu , Siqi Cai , Benyou Wang , Zhiguo Zhang , Haizhou Li

Foundation models for electroencephalography (EEG) signals have recently demonstrated success in learning generalized representations of EEGs, outperforming specialized models in various downstream tasks. However, many of these models lack…

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

Foundation models (FMs) promise to extract unified representations that generalize across downstream tasks. They have emerged across fields, including electroencephalography (EEG), but it is less clear how effective they are in this…

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a neuroimaging technique that records brain neural activity with high temporal resolution. Unlike other methods, EEG does not require prohibitively expensive equipment and can be easily set up using…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Arash Akbarinia

The current electroencephalogram (EEG) based deep learning models are typically designed for specific datasets and applications in brain-computer interaction (BCI), limiting the scale of the models and thus diminishing their perceptual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Wei-Bang Jiang , Li-Ming Zhao , Bao-Liang Lu

EEG foundation models are typically pretrained on narrow-source clinical archives and evaluated on benchmarks from the same ecosystem, leaving unclear whether representations encode neural physiology or recording-distribution artifacts. We…

Electroencephalography (EEG), with its broad range of applications, necessitates models that can generalize effectively across various tasks and datasets. Large EEG Models (LEMs) address this by pretraining encoder-centric architectures on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Chenyu Liu , Yuqiu Deng , Tianyu Liu , Jinan Zhou , Xinliang Zhou , Ziyu Jia , Yi Ding

Current foundation models for electroencephalography (EEG) rely on architectures adapted from computer vision or natural language processing, typically treating neural signals as pixel grids or token sequences. This approach overlooks that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Zhisheng Chen , Yingwei Zhang , Qizhen Lan , Tianyu Liu , Huacan Wang , Yi Ding , Ziyu Jia , Ronghao Chen , Kun Wang , Xinliang Zhou

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method of recording brain activity that shows significant promise in applications ranging from disease classification to emotion detection and brain-computer interfaces. Recent advances in deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Amarpal Sahota , Navid Mohammadi Foumani , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Zahraa S. Abdallah

Recent advances in electroencephalography (EEG) foundation models, which capture transferable EEG representations, have greatly accelerated the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, existing approaches still struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Muyun Jiang , Shuailei Zhang , Zhenjie Yang , Mengjun Wu , Weibang Jiang , Zhiwei Guo , Wei Zhang , Rui Liu , Shangen Zhang , Yong Li , Yi Ding , Cuntai Guan

Foundation models for time series are emerging as powerful general-purpose backbones, yet their potential for domain-specific biomedical signals such as electroencephalography (EEG) remains rather unexplored. In this work, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Théo Gnassounou , Yessin Moakher , Shifeng Xie , Vasilii Feofanov , Ievgen Redko

The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is a long-standing diagnostic tool. Yet machine learning for ECG interpretation remains fragmented, often limited to narrow tasks or datasets. FMs promise broader adaptability, but fundamental questions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 M A Al-Masud , Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz , Nils Strodthoff

Automated analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) has recently undergone a paradigm shift. The introduction of transformer architectures and self-supervised pretraining (SSL) has led to the development of EEG foundation models. These…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-04 Hannah Portmann , Yosuke Morishima

Electroencephalography (EEG) provides real-time insights into brain activity and supports diverse applications in neuroscience. While EEG foundation models (EFMs) have emerged to address the scalability issues of task-specific models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jingying Ma , Feng Wu , Qika Lin , Yucheng Xing , Chenyu Liu , Ziyu Jia , Mengling Feng

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive technique for recording brain activity, widely used in brain-computer interfaces, clinic, and healthcare. Traditional EEG deep models typically focus on specific dataset and task, limiting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Ang Li , Zikai Wang , Liuyin Yang , Zhenyu Wang , Tianheng Xu , Honglin Hu , Marc M. Van Hulle

Electroencephalography (EEG) signals, known for convenient non-invasive acquisition but low signal-to-noise ratio, have recently gained substantial attention due to the potential to decode natural images. This paper presents a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yonghao Song , Bingchuan Liu , Xiang Li , Nanlin Shi , Yijun Wang , Xiaorong Gao

The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a powerful method to understand how the brain processes speech. Linear models have recently been replaced for this purpose with deep neural networks and yield promising results. In related EEG…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Lies Bollens , Tom Francart , Hugo Van Hamme