Paper

MEBM-Phoneme: Multi-scale Enhanced BrainMagic for End-to-End MEG Phoneme Classification

Liang Jinghua, Zheng Linze, Li Songyi, Zhang Zifeng

2026

Overview

We propose MEBM-Phoneme, a multi-scale enhanced neural decoder for phoneme classification from non-invasive magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals. Built upon the BrainMagic backbone, MEBM-Phoneme integrates a short-term multi-scale convolutional module to augment the native mid-term encoder, with fused representations via depthwise separable convolution for efficient cross-scale integration. A convolutional attention layer dynamically weights temporal dependencies to refine feature aggregation. To address class imbalance and session-specific distributional shifts, we introduce a stacking-based local validation set alongside weighted cross-entropy loss and random temporal augmentation. Comprehensive evaluations on LibriBrain Competition 2025 Track2 demonstrate robust generalization, achieving competitive phoneme decoding accuracy on the validation and official test leaderboard. These results underscore the value of hierarchical temporal modeling and training stabilization for advancing MEG-based speech perception analysis.

• Publisher: Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
• Subject: Classification / Decoding / Magnetoencephalography / Phonemes