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| author | Wang, Shaocong Liu, Tong Li, Yihan Li, Ming Wen, Kairui Yang, Pei Ji, Wenqi Yu, Minjing Liu, Yong-Jin |
| author_facet | Wang, Shaocong Liu, Tong Li, Yihan Li, Ming Wen, Kairui Yang, Pei Ji, Wenqi Yu, Minjing Liu, Yong-Jin |
| contents | Recent advances in self-supervised learning for EEG representation have largely relied on masked reconstruction, where models are trained to recover randomly masked signal segments. While effective at modeling local dependencies, such objectives are inherently limited in capturing the global dynamics and long-range dependencies essential for characterizing neural activity. To address this limitation, we propose EEGDM, a novel self-supervised framework that leverages latent diffusion models to generate EEG signals as an objective. Unlike masked reconstruction, diffusion-based generation progressively denoises signals from noise to realism, compelling the model to capture holistic temporal patterns and cross-channel relationships. Specifically, EEGDM incorporates an EEG encoder that distills raw signals and their channel augmentations into a compact representation, acting as conditional information to guide the diffusion model for generating EEG signals. This design endows EEGDM with a compact latent space, which not only offers ample control over the generative process but also can be leveraged for downstream tasks. Experimental results show that EEGDM (1) reconstructs high-quality EEG signals, (2) learns robust representations, and (3) achieves competitive performance across diverse downstream tasks, thus exploring a new direction for self-supervised EEG representation learning. |
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| spellingShingle | EEGDM: Learning EEG Representation with Latent Diffusion Model Wang, Shaocong Liu, Tong Li, Yihan Li, Ming Wen, Kairui Yang, Pei Ji, Wenqi Yu, Minjing Liu, Yong-Jin Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Recent advances in self-supervised learning for EEG representation have largely relied on masked reconstruction, where models are trained to recover randomly masked signal segments. While effective at modeling local dependencies, such objectives are inherently limited in capturing the global dynamics and long-range dependencies essential for characterizing neural activity. To address this limitation, we propose EEGDM, a novel self-supervised framework that leverages latent diffusion models to generate EEG signals as an objective. Unlike masked reconstruction, diffusion-based generation progressively denoises signals from noise to realism, compelling the model to capture holistic temporal patterns and cross-channel relationships. Specifically, EEGDM incorporates an EEG encoder that distills raw signals and their channel augmentations into a compact representation, acting as conditional information to guide the diffusion model for generating EEG signals. This design endows EEGDM with a compact latent space, which not only offers ample control over the generative process but also can be leveraged for downstream tasks. Experimental results show that EEGDM (1) reconstructs high-quality EEG signals, (2) learns robust representations, and (3) achieves competitive performance across diverse downstream tasks, thus exploring a new direction for self-supervised EEG representation learning. |
| title | EEGDM: Learning EEG Representation with Latent Diffusion Model |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20705 |