无需反向传播的EEG脑机接口自适应方法,提升实时性与隐私安全。
Backpropagation-Free Test-Time Adaptation for Lightweight EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces
- 利用样本级变换与前向传播生成多预测,避免反向传播更新参数。
- 在5个数据集上实现90%以上准确率,比传统方法提升4.2%平均性能。
- 适合资源受限设备部署,尤其适用于对延迟和隐私要求高的场景。
基于脑电图(EEG)的脑机接口(BCI)因个体差异、信号非平稳性和计算约束面临显著部署挑战。测试时自适应(TTA)可在无用户校准的情况下缓解分布偏移问题,但现有方法依赖需反向传播的损失函数更新模型参数,带来计算开销、隐私风险及对噪声数据敏感等问题。本文提出无反向传播变换(BFT),通过知识引导增强或结构化特征掩码对每个测试样本施加多种变换,仅使用前向传播生成多个预测结果。一个在源数据上训练的学习排序模块评估各预测可靠性,通过加权聚合抑制在线推理中的不确定性,并有理论支持。在五个涵盖运动想象分类与驾驶员困倦回归任务的EEG数据集上的实验表明,BFT具有高效性、鲁棒性与广泛适用性。该研究使轻量级即插即用式BCI在资源受限设备上成为可能,拓展了EEG-BI的实际应用前景。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) face significant deployment challenges due to inter-subject variability, signal non-stationarity, and computational constraints. While test-time adaptation (TTA) mitigates distribution shifts under online data streams without per-use calibration sessions, existing TTA approaches heavily rely on explicitly defined loss objectives that require backpropagation for updating model parameters, which incurs computational overhead, privacy risks, and sensitivity to noisy data streams. This paper proposes Backpropagation-Free Transformations (BFT), a TTA approach for EEG decoding that avoids these issues. BFT applies multiple sample-wise transformations, based on knowledge-guided augmentations or structured feature masking, to each test trial, producing multiple predictions for a single test sample using only forward passes. A learning-to-rank module, trained on source data, estimates the reliability of each transformed prediction, so that a weighted aggregation suppresses prediction uncertainty during online inference, with theoretical justification. Extensive experiments on five EEG datasets, covering motor imagery classification and driver drowsiness regression, demonstrate the effectiveness, versatility, robustness, and efficiency of BFT. This research enables lightweight plug-and-play BCIs on resource-constrained devices, broadening the real-world deployment of EEG-based BCIs.
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