S$^2$M-Former: Spiking Symmetric Mixing Branchformer for Brain Auditory Attention Detection

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Autori principali: Wang, Jiaqi, Ma, Zhengyu, Shen, Xiongri, Zhou, Chenlin, Zhao, Leilei, Zhang, Han, Zhong, Yi, Cai, Siqi, Song, Zhenxi, Zhang, Zhiguo
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author Wang, Jiaqi
Ma, Zhengyu
Shen, Xiongri
Zhou, Chenlin
Zhao, Leilei
Zhang, Han
Zhong, Yi
Cai, Siqi
Song, Zhenxi
Zhang, Zhiguo
author_facet Wang, Jiaqi
Ma, Zhengyu
Shen, Xiongri
Zhou, Chenlin
Zhao, Leilei
Zhang, Han
Zhong, Yi
Cai, Siqi
Song, Zhenxi
Zhang, Zhiguo
contents Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to decode listeners' focus in complex auditory environments from electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, which is crucial for developing neuro-steered hearing devices. Despite recent advancements, EEG-based AAD remains hindered by the absence of synergistic frameworks that can fully leverage complementary EEG features under energy-efficiency constraints. We propose S$^2$M-Former, a novel spiking symmetric mixing framework to address this limitation through two key innovations: i) Presenting a spike-driven symmetric architecture composed of parallel spatial and frequency branches with mirrored modular design, leveraging biologically plausible token-channel mixers to enhance complementary learning across branches; ii) Introducing lightweight 1D token sequences to replace conventional 3D operations, reducing parameters by 14.7$\times$. The brain-inspired spiking architecture further reduces power consumption, achieving a 5.8$\times$ energy reduction compared to recent ANN methods, while also surpassing existing SNN baselines in terms of parameter efficiency and performance. Comprehensive experiments on three AAD benchmarks (KUL, DTU and AV-GC-AAD) across three settings (within-trial, cross-trial and cross-subject) demonstrate that S$^2$M-Former achieves comparable state-of-the-art (SOTA) decoding accuracy, making it a promising low-power, high-performance solution for AAD tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/JackieWang9811/S2M-Former.
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spellingShingle S$^2$M-Former: Spiking Symmetric Mixing Branchformer for Brain Auditory Attention Detection
Wang, Jiaqi
Ma, Zhengyu
Shen, Xiongri
Zhou, Chenlin
Zhao, Leilei
Zhang, Han
Zhong, Yi
Cai, Siqi
Song, Zhenxi
Zhang, Zhiguo
Machine Learning
Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to decode listeners' focus in complex auditory environments from electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, which is crucial for developing neuro-steered hearing devices. Despite recent advancements, EEG-based AAD remains hindered by the absence of synergistic frameworks that can fully leverage complementary EEG features under energy-efficiency constraints. We propose S$^2$M-Former, a novel spiking symmetric mixing framework to address this limitation through two key innovations: i) Presenting a spike-driven symmetric architecture composed of parallel spatial and frequency branches with mirrored modular design, leveraging biologically plausible token-channel mixers to enhance complementary learning across branches; ii) Introducing lightweight 1D token sequences to replace conventional 3D operations, reducing parameters by 14.7$\times$. The brain-inspired spiking architecture further reduces power consumption, achieving a 5.8$\times$ energy reduction compared to recent ANN methods, while also surpassing existing SNN baselines in terms of parameter efficiency and performance. Comprehensive experiments on three AAD benchmarks (KUL, DTU and AV-GC-AAD) across three settings (within-trial, cross-trial and cross-subject) demonstrate that S$^2$M-Former achieves comparable state-of-the-art (SOTA) decoding accuracy, making it a promising low-power, high-performance solution for AAD tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/JackieWang9811/S2M-Former.
title S$^2$M-Former: Spiking Symmetric Mixing Branchformer for Brain Auditory Attention Detection
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05164