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This research advances EEG-to-music reconstruction by introducing a channel-preserving representation alignment technique that optimizes the tradeoff between signal retention and prediction accuracy. By leveraging per-electrode tokenization and self-distillation, the method significantly improves both music identification rates and audio generation quality compared to existing spectrogram regression approaches. The work represents a substantive contribution to machine learning applications in bio-signal processing and generative audio synthesis.
Channel-Preserving Representation Alignment for EEG-to-Music Reconstruction
arXiv:2606.04040v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reconstructing naturalistic music from EEG requires extracting music-specific information from weak signals distributed across electrodes. Existing spectrogram regression and diffusion approaches provide audio synthesis mechanisms, but learning the EEG-to-music mapping faces an information--estimation tradeoff. Combining electrode measurements into fewer features can ease estimation from limited recordings while obscuring distinctions between music segments. We propose channel-preserving representation alignment, separating electrode information retention from prediction regularization. Per-electrode tokenization preserves spatial identity for learned aggregation, while multi-view self-distillation and channel dropout encourage consistency across electrode subsets during pretraining and music alignment. The aligned representation conditions a pretrained audio generator. Our theory explains these complementary choices. A finite-sample regression analysis identifies when retained task information outweighs estimation cost. For nonlinear alignment, an exact decomposition reveals a prediction-consistency penalty in the masked contrastive objective, with margin-dependent bounds connecting prediction variability to ranking errors across electrode subsets. On NMED-T/H, our method improves within-subject 50-way identification from 0.388 to 0.485 and generated-audio CLAP similarity from 0.635 to 0.683 compared with previous work.
Abstract:Reconstructing naturalistic music from EEG requires extracting music-specific information from weak signals distributed across electrodes. Existing spectrogram regression and diffusion approaches provide audio synthesis mechanisms, but learning the EEG-to-music mapping faces an information--estimation tradeoff. Combining electrode measurements into fewer features can ease estimation from limited recordings while obscuring distinctions between music segments. We propose channel-preserving representation alignment, separating electrode information retention from prediction regularization. Per-electrode tokenization preserves spatial identity for learned aggregation, while multi-view self-distillation and channel dropout encourage consistency across electrode subsets during pretraining and music alignment. The aligned representation conditions a pretrained audio generator. Our theory explains these complementary choices. A finite-sample regression analysis identifies when retained task information outweighs estimation cost. For nonlinear alignment, an exact decomposition reveals a prediction-consistency penalty in the masked contrastive objective, with margin-dependent bounds connecting prediction variability to ranking errors across electrode subsets. On NMED-T/H, our method improves within-subject 50-way identification from 0.388 to 0.485 and generated-audio CLAP similarity from 0.635 to 0.683 compared with previous work.
Sound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
arXiv:2606.04040 [cs.SD]
(or arXiv:2606.04040v2 [cs.SD] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.04040 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
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