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arXiv · September 9, 2026
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NEXUS-MI is a federated learning framework for motor-imagery BCI personalization that adjusts communication synchronization adaptively during training. In offline replay, communication-aware coordination reduced server-to-client traffic by approximately 42% on both datasets while maintaining cohort-level accuracy, but subject-level performance varied substantially, with losses reaching approximately 12 percentage points on one dataset relative to ideal conditions.
Offline computational methods study; simulation using public datasets. Public BCI datasets: BCICIV-2a (9 subjects, motor-imagery classification, 4 classes) and OpenBMI (54 subjects, motor-imagery classification, 2 classes). No clinical patient population.. Intervention: NEXUS-MI: gateway-coordinated federated personalization framework with communication-aware synchronization control; raw EEG and classifier heads local, shared backbone maintained by edge coordinator. Compared with: Ideal-link reference and non-adaptive synchronization policies.
Communication-aware coordination reduced server-to-client backbone traffic by approximately 42% on both BCICIV-2a and OpenBMI datasets Cohort-level accuracy differences between communication-aware and non-adaptive synchronization were small and realization-dependent Subject-level vulnerability was substantial, with losses reaching approximately 12 percentage points on BCICIV-2a relative to ideal-link reference
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This work addresses federated learning and communication efficiency in BCIs, which is relevant for future distributed BCI systems. However, as an offline simulation study without clinical validation or real-time user testing, it does not yet support clinical deployment or practice changes.
This is a computational methods paper demonstrating a federated learning framework for BCI personalization using offline replay on two public datasets, without clinical validation, real-time deployment, or comparison to standard clinical BCI practice.
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This work addresses federated learning and communication efficiency in BCIs, which is relevant for future distributed BCI systems. However, as an offline simulation study without clinical validation or real-time user testing, it does not yet support clinical deployment or practice changes.
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Electroencephalography (EEG)-based motor-imagery brain-computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) vary across subjects and sessions, complicating personalization from limited calibration data. Federated learning can exploit shared representations without centralizing raw EEG, but existing federated MI studies largely assume regular synchronization. We introduce NEXUS-MI, a gateway-coordinated federated personalization framework that treats synchronization as a coupled learning-and-communication control problem. Raw EEG and classifier heads remain local, while an edge coordinator maintains the shared backbone. We evaluate NEXUS-MI through offline replay using BCI Competition IV Dataset 2a (BCICIV-2a; 9 subjects, 4 classes) and OpenBMI (54 subjects, 2 classes). Session 1 supports backbone learning, and Session 2 provides limited-calibration personalization and held-out testing. An ideal-link reference and six heterogeneous-link policies characterize gateway participation, buffering, stale-update admission, and backbone-download control. The principal comparison holds delayed-update handling fixed while contrasting non-adaptive and communication-aware synchronization. Paired subject-level comparisons use Holm adjustment, and robustness across five matched realizations is assessed by hierarchical bootstrap. Communication-aware coordination reduced server-to-client backbone traffic by approximately 42% on both datasets, while cohort-level accuracy differences were small and realization-dependent. Cohort averages also concealed subject-level vulnerability, with losses reaching approximately 12 percentage points on BCICIV-2a relative to the ideal-link reference. These findings establish gateway synchronization as an explicit design variable in federated MI personalization and motivate joint evaluation of personalized accuracy, communication cost, update freshness, and subject-level reliability.
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