Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 25, 2026
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Auditory Attention Detection (AAD) utilizes electroencephalographic (EEG) signals to identify a target speaker in a multi-speaker environment. Despite considerable progress, existing deep learning architectures often lack explicit mechanisms for handling noisy EEG data. To address this limitation, we propose Auditory Focus Attention Networks (AFA-Net), a machine learning framework that replaces vanilla attention with a simple yet flexible differential attention mechanism to help focus on task-relevant neural activity. AFA-Net achieves an upward accuracy of 96.8% at the 2s decision window, while using substantially fewer parameters than most existing methods. To the best of our knowledge, AFA-Net is among the first frameworks to explicitly try to combat EEG noise to improve AAD.