SimNeXt-EEG: Compact Motor Imagery EEG Decoding via Parameter-Free Temporal Attention and Separable Refinement

Published, Early Access

Venue
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Author role
First author
Year
2026

Research approach

Built a compact motor-imagery EEG decoder using multiscale convolution, parameter-free temporal attention and separable refinement.

Results

BCI IV 2a session-independent accuracy: 70.81 ± 0.49%; 1.84K parameters; 1.46 ms desktop CPU latency at batch size 1.

SimNeXt-EEG architecture
Stage Operation / output
MSTF Temporal kernels 32, 80 / 8 channels
STE Spatial separable convolution + SimAM
STR Temporal separable convolution + SimAM
Classification Flatten, Linear / 4 classes
Parameter count and CPU latency
Model Parameters CPU latency
EEGNet 3.44K 0.79 ms
MSVTNet 75.49K 3.78 ms
SimNeXt 1.84K 1.46 ms
InterpretationBCI Competition IV 2a, session-independent accuracy: 70.81 ± 0.49%. Complexity: 1.84K parameters and 20.69 MFLOPs. Latency: 1.46 ms on a desktop CPU, batch size 1; not a wearable-device measurement.
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