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BrainBERT: Self-supervised representation learning for intracranial recordings

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We create a reusable Transformer, BrainBERT, for intracranial recordings bringing modern representation learning approaches to neuroscience. Much like in NLP and speech recognition, this Transformer enables classifying complex concepts, i.e., decoding neural data, with higher accuracy and with much less data by being pretrained in an unsupervised manner on a large corpus of unannotated neural recordings. Our approach generalizes to new subjects with electrodes in new positions and to unrelated tasks showing that the representations robustly disentangle the neural signal. Just like in NLP where one can study language by investigating what a language model learns, this approach opens the door to investigating the brain by what a model of the brain learns. As a first step along this path, we demonstrate a new analysis of the intrinsic dimensionality of the computations in different areas of the brain. To construct these representations, we combine a technique for producing super-resolution spectrograms of neural data with an approach designed for generating contextual representations of audio by masking. In the future, far more concepts will be decodable from neural recordings by using representation learning, potentially unlocking the brain like language models unlocked language.

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Let EEG Models Learn EEG

cs.CV · 2026-05-20 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

JET is a conditional flow matching framework that generates EEG as continuous raw sequences with added constraints for spectral and temporal properties, achieving over 40% lower TS-FID than prior discrete denoising methods on three benchmarks.

Brain-OF: An Omnifunctional Foundation Model for fMRI, EEG and MEG

cs.LG · 2026-02-26 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Brain-OF is a multimodal foundation model for fMRI, EEG and MEG using any-resolution sampling, DINT attention with sparse MoE, and masked temporal-frequency pretraining on ~40 datasets to achieve superior downstream performance.

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