Is Limited Participant Diversity Impeding EEG-based Machine Learning?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13497v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:04:59 GMT
• Title: Is Limited Participant Diversity Impeding EEG-based Machine Learning?
• Authors: Philipp Bomatter, Henry Gouk,
• Abstract summary: It is common practice to split EEG recordings into small segments, thereby increasing the number of samples.<n>We conceptualise this as a multi-level data generation process and investigate the scaling behaviour of model performance.<n>We then use the same framework to investigate the effectiveness of different ML strategies designed to address limited data problems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The application of machine learning (ML) to electroencephalography (EEG) has great potential to advance both neuroscientific research and clinical applications. However, the generalisability and robustness of EEG-based ML models often hinge on the amount and diversity of training data. It is common practice to split EEG recordings into small segments, thereby increasing the number of samples substantially compared to the number of individual recordings or participants. We conceptualise this as a multi-level data generation process and investigate the scaling behaviour of model performance with respect to the overall sample size and the participant diversity through large-scale empirical studies. We then use the same framework to investigate the effectiveness of different ML strategies designed to address limited data problems: data augmentations and self-supervised learning. Our findings show that model performance scaling can be severely constrained by participant distribution shifts and provide actionable guidance for data collection and ML research.

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