针对脑电图模型在真实分布偏移下的适应难题,提出系统性评测框架并发现现有方法常导致性能下降。
Test-Time Adaptation for EEG Foundation Models: A Systematic Study under Real-World Distribution Shifts

- 构建真实场景下的脑电图测试时自适应评测基准
- 多数现有自适应方法在脑电数据上效果不稳,甚至显著退化
- 无需梯度更新的方法更稳定,适合医疗领域应用
脑电图(EEG)基础模型在大规模神经数据上展现出学习通用表征的潜力,但其临床部署受限于不同临床环境、设备和人群间的分布偏移。测试时自适应(TTA)通过在推理阶段利用无标签目标数据进行模型调整,无需源数据访问,在隐私受限且标注数据稀缺的医疗场景中具有重要价值。然而,其在脑电领域的有效性仍缺乏系统研究。本文提出NeuroAdapt-Bench,一个针对脑电基础模型在真实分布偏移下测试时自适应方法的系统性评测基准。我们在多个预训练模型、多样化下游任务及异构数据集(涵盖分布内、分布外及极端模态偏移,如耳部脑电)上评估了来自其他领域的代表性TTA方法。结果表明,所评估的TTA方法表现不一致,常导致性能下降,基于梯度的方法尤其易出现严重退化,而无需优化的方法则表现出更高稳定性。该结果揭示了直接迁移现有TTA技术到脑电领域的局限性,并强调了发展领域专用自适应策略的必要性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Electroencephalography (EEG) foundation models have shown strong potential for learning generalizable representations from large-scale neural data, yet their clinical deployment is hindered by distribution shifts across clinical settings, devices, and populations. Test-time adaptation (TTA) offers a promising solution by enabling models to adapt to unlabeled target data during inference without access to source data, a valuable property in healthcare settings constrained by privacy regulations and limited labeled data. However, its effectiveness for EEG remains largely underexplored. In this work, we introduce NeuroAdapt-Bench, a systematic benchmark for evaluating test-time adaptation methods on EEG foundation models under realistic distribution shifts. We evaluate representative TTA approaches from other domains across multiple pretrained foundation models, diverse downstream tasks, and heterogeneous datasets spanning in-distribution, out-of-distribution, and extreme modality shifts (e.g., Ear-EEG). Our results show that the evaluated TTA methods yield inconsistent gains and often degrade performance, with gradient-based approaches particularly prone to heavy degradation and optimization-free methods showing greater stability. For the evaluated EEG foundation models and representative TTA methods, these findings highlight the limitations of directly applying existing TTA techniques to EEG and underscore the need for domain-specific adaptation strategies.
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