Lightweight Transformer for EEG Classification via Balanced Signed Graph Algorithm Unrolling

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Auteurs principaux: Yao, Junyi, Eftekhar, Parham, Cheung, Gene, Liu, Xujin Chris, Wang, Yao, Hu, Wei
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author Yao, Junyi
Eftekhar, Parham
Cheung, Gene
Liu, Xujin Chris
Wang, Yao
Hu, Wei
author_facet Yao, Junyi
Eftekhar, Parham
Cheung, Gene
Liu, Xujin Chris
Wang, Yao
Hu, Wei
contents Samples of brain signals collected by EEG sensors have inherent anti-correlations that are well modeled by negative edges in a finite graph. To differentiate epilepsy patients from healthy subjects using collected EEG signals, we build lightweight and interpretable transformer-like neural nets by unrolling a spectral denoising algorithm for signals on a balanced signed graph -- graph with no cycles of odd number of negative edges. A balanced signed graph has well-defined frequencies that map to a corresponding positive graph via similarity transform of the graph Laplacian matrices. We implement an ideal low-pass filter efficiently on the mapped positive graph via Lanczos approximation, where the optimal cutoff frequency is learned from data. Given that two balanced signed graph denoisers learn posterior probabilities of two different signal classes during training, we evaluate their reconstruction errors for binary classification of EEG signals. Experiments show that our method achieves classification performance comparable to representative deep learning schemes, while employing dramatically fewer parameters.
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spellingShingle Lightweight Transformer for EEG Classification via Balanced Signed Graph Algorithm Unrolling
Yao, Junyi
Eftekhar, Parham
Cheung, Gene
Liu, Xujin Chris
Wang, Yao
Hu, Wei
Machine Learning
Samples of brain signals collected by EEG sensors have inherent anti-correlations that are well modeled by negative edges in a finite graph. To differentiate epilepsy patients from healthy subjects using collected EEG signals, we build lightweight and interpretable transformer-like neural nets by unrolling a spectral denoising algorithm for signals on a balanced signed graph -- graph with no cycles of odd number of negative edges. A balanced signed graph has well-defined frequencies that map to a corresponding positive graph via similarity transform of the graph Laplacian matrices. We implement an ideal low-pass filter efficiently on the mapped positive graph via Lanczos approximation, where the optimal cutoff frequency is learned from data. Given that two balanced signed graph denoisers learn posterior probabilities of two different signal classes during training, we evaluate their reconstruction errors for binary classification of EEG signals. Experiments show that our method achieves classification performance comparable to representative deep learning schemes, while employing dramatically fewer parameters.
title Lightweight Transformer for EEG Classification via Balanced Signed Graph Algorithm Unrolling
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03027