Summary of Pre-training Graph Contrastive Masked Autoencoders Are Strong Distillers For Eeg, by Xinxu Wei et al.
Pre-Training Graph Contrastive Masked Autoencoders are Strong Distillers for EEG
by Xinxu Wei, Kanhao Zhao, Yong Jiao, Nancy B. Carlisle, Hua Xie, Yu Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses a significant challenge in improving performance using extensive unlabeled high-density EEG data to bridge the gap between unlabeled/labeled and high/low-density EEG data. To achieve this, the authors propose a Unified Pre-trained Graph Contrastive Masked Autoencoder Distiller (EEG-DisGCMAE) that combines graph self-supervised pre-training with knowledge distillation from high-density to low-density EEG data. The method synergistically integrates contrastive and generative pre-training techniques by reconstructing contrastive samples and contrasting the reconstructions. For knowledge distillation, a Graph Topology Distillation loss function is introduced, allowing a lightweight student model trained on low-density data to learn from a teacher model trained on high-density data. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their method on four classification tasks across two clinical EEG datasets with abundant unlabeled data and limited labeled data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper solves a problem in brain-computer interfaces where we have lots of information, but it’s hard to use because most of it is not labeled. They created a new way to train models using this unlabeled data that can then be used for other tasks with less data. This is useful because EEG data is very expensive and difficult to collect, so being able to learn from more data makes it easier to make accurate predictions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoencoder » Classification » Distillation » Knowledge distillation » Loss function » Self supervised » Student model » Teacher model
